Poignant drama as a group of youths aided by an animal loving neighbor, are willing to go to any lengths to save a baby elephant during the Belfast Blitz , in 1941.

However, the film is not all touchy-feely , as there are some sad and tense scenes as well.The characters are certainly believable, and it's all tied together and presented well by the writer and director Colin McIvor.

All in all, I found this movie to be an engaging and uplifting tale.

Zoo is a fictionalised representation of true events.

Belfast Zoo had to shoot some of its animals during World War 2. The city had to withstand German air raids in 1941.

Some schoolkids led by Tom Hall rescue the baby elephant Buster from the zoo and hide it in the house of a reclusive, eccentric elderly lady. Her house is a menagerie.

Director Colin McIvor has made the most of the low budget. It really looks good on the screen.

It is an old fashioned family film, there is even a school bully who is a fly in the ointment and a grumpy zoo gatekeeper.

Several characters reveal a heart of gold. However there is also tragedy, those German bombs leave lasting damage behind.

Kids would enjoy this film, it is a light story with some sweetness and some darkness as well.

A beautiful family drama,about a little zoo in a little village just outside belfast,nortern ireland.its an emotional story about an elephant and his human rescuers and friends during the devastating time of 2nd world war blitz-krieg phase.

it is a sweet but also sad story about love,engagement,poverty,life and death,good and evil ,made through a great filmographic,audio/visual production,and a whole lot of great young actors.even though i understand english language pretty well,the irish slang are at time hopeless to understand when spoken with low voice,anyway,the worse the dialect the better.geordie is fein..... the pace are a little slow but it gives time for recollection on wartime for the younger viewers.