The Wild Thornberrys Movie

The Wild Thornberrys Movie is a 2002 American animated adventure comedydrama film based on the The Wild Thornberrys television series. The film follows Eliza Thornberry on her quest to rescue a baby cheetah cub named Tally from ruthless poachers.

year old Eliza Thornberry is playing with a family of cheetahs in East Africa, where her parents Nigel and Marianne Thornberry work as roving wildlife photographers for a television nature show. Eliza also rides on the back of a female elephant named Phaedra throughout the jungle. Eliza has been given the magical ability to talk and communicate with wild animals by Shaman Mnyambo. Elizas older sister Debbie, a is materialistic girl who dislikes Africa, and the girls have a mischievous adopted brother Donnie.The cheetah mother, Akela, has left Eliza in charge of her cubs however, Eliza strays beyond the security of the area, and one of the cheetah cubs, Tally, is kidnapped by poachers. Elizas persistent efforts to rescue the cub lead her British grandmother Cordelia, who is visiting them, talk her parents into sending her off to a Boarding school in England, fearing that Eliza is constantly endangering herself in Africa and will be much safer at boarding school much to Debbies dismay that Eliza gets to go instead of her. Darwin, Elizas pet chimpanzee, smuggles himself into her luggage and travels to school with her. After a chaotic food fight at a dinner Darwin attends, he is discovered and gets Eliza in trouble. The headmistress tells Eliza that her grandmother will be disappointed in her. Eliza is still guilt ridden for causing Tally to be taken away by poachers. ........

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