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stiricide
Bryn Mawr, PA

Cute, but don't take it to heart.

3 star rating

An Animal Lover, a frequent film-goer, a documentary film lover, love movies that make you think, DVD collector, very picky about kids films
Pros

    Awesome camera coverage

Cons
    Preachy, Inaccurate

NOV
22
2007
March of the Penguins is undoubtably compelling, beautifully shot, and features those adorable penguins! Morgan Freeman offers up a forceful narration, and it's hard not to believe every word he says. But beyond the cute fluff, the grueling winters, the terrific adversaty these penguins face simply to survive, is the fact that they neglect to remind the audience - THEY ARE NOT HUMAN, All the anthropomorphizing in the world will not change the fact that they're BIRDS. Painting a picture of them as thinking, feeling, loving animals is - while not wrong, per se, certainly inaccurate. It is impossible to paint these creatures with the brush of human emotion and human values because - well, they're not! Penguins, contrary to the film's narration, do not only not mate for life, it's common for them not to mate in heterosexual pairs at all! It's as tough for them to tell each other apart as it is for us to do it! I won't go off and preachin this review, I'd just like to point out that March of the Penguins is cute, but it's not Animal Planet. The filmmakers wanted to tell a story that would affect the viewers, ot to present complete facts. Watch it for fun, but don't take it to heart. As an allegory, it just doesn't hold up.



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