Narrated by James Earl Jones, "Earth" tells the remarkable story of three animal families and their amazing journeys across the planet we call home. "Earth" combines rare action, unimaginable scale and impossible locations by capturing the most intimate moments of our planet's wildest and most elusive creatures.
[The directors] know how to craft a sequence (lions and elephants uneasily drinking at the same water hole), have an eye for the telling shot (baboons mincing across a flood plain), and mercifully avoid making the fauna look human.
For adults, Earth misses the mark of riveting storytelling. Earth crams in the dramatic adventures of several species (including penguins) -- with the result that it comes up short on telling one really good story.
Earth hits all the right notes, and if Disney corners the market on nature documentaries and creates an annual cinematic event of this caliber tied into Earth Day, so be it.
On blu-ray, Earth looks awesome in 1080p high definition, with its widescreen picture grabbing the eye while its 5.1 DTS-HD audio track sounds just as sharp.
Disney puts truth in the drawer claiming that "changing weather patterns" cause drying rainforests, when it's the destruction of the rainforest that is causing the changing weather patterns.
The production values of this film are very good, but it wanders away from its three main storylines often enough that it may not hold the attention of children.
EARTH opens with a dazzling scene of the planet from space and then flits around the globe to give us equally astonishing shots of animals in survival mode and at play.
im a huge fan of nature films and this movie is no exception it takes the visuals to its advantage and its fantastic to look at
January 20, 2011
Michael Edwards
Super Reviewer
In it's defense the TV series this was culled from is entertaining and informative but cut down into 90 mintues makes for a vague, confusing documentary.
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