Freebies! The Blue Elephant is out on DVD today from The Weinstein Company, Genius Products, and The Jim Henson Company, but why buy it when you can win it? It’s an adorable story with “a sad part and a happy,” according to Maya, with the voice talents of Miranda Cosgrove, Carl Reiner, and Martin Short. The story is based on a tale from Thailand about a young elephant who is searching for his father who disappeared during the war. It is rated PG instead of G because there are some war scenes that might be troublesome for the most sensitive viewers, but Maya didn’t have any trouble with those scenes. As the mom, I was very surprised at how absorbed I was in the story. Usually, straight-to-DVD kids’ movies are painful to watch, but not this one. Maybe having The Weinsteins and The Jim Henson Company involved is the difference there.

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