The above list of grievances seems made of minor irritations, but together, they outline the gaping hole where the film's charms should be. Grant? Or the latently racist wise-black-woman schtick that Devine is stuck with? Or Nora's cliched tuberulosis-like illness? Or Laurence Fishburne's insubstantial role? Or the fact that Phango lives in "the Valley of Desolation?" Or the rote last-minute revelation that Phango and Khumba are "destined" to fight each other? Grant impersonator is actually Richard E. But what about the little campfire song-and-dance Bradley does to explain that he's been "ostracized," or the depressing revelation that the character that sounds like a bad Richard E. So not only is it impossible for a pre-adolescent kid to not have a romantic interest, but apparently, he has to be so literal-minded that he doesn't understand that something called "the Magic Waterhole" isn't real.
Grant), the neurotic British ostrich?Īs they're expressed, the formula-enforced expectations required of "Khumba"'s story are pretty depressing. And who couldn't forget Mama V ( Loretta Devine), the sassy but nurturing buffalo, or Bradley ( Richard E. There's Skalk ( Steve Buscemi), the jittery, self-interested wild dog who will do anything to save his own skin. There's Phango ( Liam Neeson), the blind leopard who uses his Daredevil-like radar senses to track Khumba. While Khumba's wise zebra father Seko ( Laurence Fishburne) and his fawning zebra girlfriend Tombi ( AnnaSophia Robb) chase after him, Khumba makes new friends and enemies.
He naively misunderstands his ailing mother Nora's ( Catherine Tate) story about a "Magic Waterhole," and goes off in search of the mystical wellspring that will make him all-zebra. Austin) doesn't look like other zebras, so he feels like a freak. "Khumba" is so formulaic that it makes you wonder why its stock plot is so enduring.
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