Review of The Elephant King (2006) by Nick T — 26 Apr 2010

I can't believe [i]Beverly Hills Chihuahua[/i] has a higher freshness rating on RT than [i]The Elephant King[/i]. That is just insane. Who pays these reviewers to give these asinine movies good reviews? And what is up with all the bad reviews for [i]The Elephant King[/i]? Not only do I think the movie was quite well written, which most of the reviewers seem to disagree with, and well acted, but it is also based on real experiences. So how can reviewers call it stereotypical? Maybe there is some truth to the idea that stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason, because they represent reality well.

Of course, I might be a little biased because I have been to Thailand and had the experiences represented in this film as a foreigner in a strange and exotic land. It seems like most of the reviewers don't get out of their Lazyboys often enough to truly experience life abroad or they have just become too jaded to remember what it was like to be young and traveling in a foreign land full of excitement and cheap thrills.

Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and would go see it again and again. Hopefully it will stay around long enough for that to happen. Maybe some real people, not phony-ass movie reviewers, need to write some decent reviews of [i]The Elephant King[/i] so that its freshness will exceed that of the epically stale [i]Beverly Hills Chihuahua[/i]. One can only hope.