Jack and I can wholeheartedly recommend every movie in the Disneynature series, especially Monkey Kingdom, and this one is no different. Narrated by Ed Helms (last blogged for The Boss Baby) with humor and empathy, the movie "stars" a baby Adélie penguin named Steve as he grows up, mates, and moves around his Antarctic habitats. It's always funny to watch penguins walk, and striking to compare it to their effortless swimming. The directors are Alastair Fothergill, Jeff Wilson, and Mark Linfield, the writer is David Fowler, and the cinematographers are Sophie Darlington and Rolf Steinmann.
We learned several years ago that all the magnificent Disneynature photography is real (the last we saw was Born in China about pandas). Now I wonder if there's any way that only one penguin was actually featured in the 900 days (!) of shooting. No matter, it's still terrifically entertaining, with a few pop songs supplementing the soundtrack by Harry Gregson-Williams (The Zookeeper's Wife).
We saw this movie on April 23, 2019.
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