Review of The One and Only Ivan

Ivan was nicely rendered and performed by Sam Rockwell, but practically everything else was coated in predictable syrup. The overall story of good animals need to be free, while hard to argue with was delivered in a horrible virtue signaling fashion, so much so as to undo the good intention. The overall effect was hollow because of it. Cranston does a terrible cartoon character rendering of his role, and only the animals come across as real, and they're all CGI and don't talk in real life. Devito, Rockwell and Jollie are pretty decent. The rest, didn't deliver.