We liked, as expected, this year's Disneynature documentary, following a baby dubbed Oscar and his life in the wild. Magnificent scenery, check, heart-warming anthropomorphic animals, check, no computer animation, check. Tim Allen narrates the story about the young chimp and his extended family, told with alternating humor and gravity. I learned from researching this that the filmmakers had shot footage for a year before the main action used in this movie occurred. And, rest assured, it's all real. The humans didn't intervene or cause anything.
Alistair Fothergill and Mark Linfield co-direct and co-produce, as they did on Earth, the 2009 Disneynature Earth Day release. Fothergill co-directed African Cats, last year's entry in the series, with someone else. And, if you're keeping track, the 2010 release was Oceans, by a completely different team. Each is spectacular in its own way.
Jack predicts this will be the most popular, as the adorable Oscar seems so human. Children will love it, and it's only 78 minutes long, so most of them will be able to sit through it when you trundle on down to your local movie house, which will give you a better experience than a small screen.
Sorry I'm so behind, folks. We saw this Wednesday 4/25, and I have two others to write, one of which was even before that. It will be a while before I get totally caught up with seeing, much less writing. Such is my happy full life.
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