abstract:Babar the Elephant is a fictional character who first appeared in the French children's book Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff in 1931 and enjoyed immediate success. An English-language version, The Story of Babar, introduced by A.
But its monsters grow tackier by the minute first giant metallic ladybirds, then gun-toting rhinos, while Gary Oldman's space buccaneer cradles a familiar that is part Dumbo, part Babartheelephant.