I actually don't have a problem with this and even the mood fits in with previous Star Wars works. These seems a lot more Star Warsy than the Ewoks movies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewoks:...ttle_for_Endor
They could have made the design of that elephant more like the previous design:
Once again, I like the direction of keeping the kids stuff clearly in that sphere, as opposed to trying to cram overly family friendly content into the main star wars offerings.
The SW universe is also an entire galaxy far far away. There's room for all sorts of adventure there that don't involve a few dozen individuals.