Whether you're more attuned to adorable animals or environmental issues, Arctic Tale is pretty cool.
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08/16/07
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Arctic Tale (2007)
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Reviews Counted:95
Fresh:59
Rotten:36
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Arctic Tale features breathtaking nature cinematography, but is undone by its over-cutesy narration.
Theatrical Release:Jul 25, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $598,103
Synopsis: This heartbreaking documentary puts a face on the sad statistics of global warming--and though it's not a human face, it's the perhaps even more effective face of an adorable polar bear cub, Nanu,... [More]
Director: Adam Ravetch, Sarah Robertson
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Reviews for Arctic Tale
Far from captivating.
08/16/07
During the end credits, kids pop up onscreen to warn you that every time you turn on your lights, a baby polar bear falls to his death through a crevasse of ice cracked by global warming. Or something to that effect.
08/15/07
Since I would give the visual portion of "Arctic Tale" the maximum number of stars and the audio portion the minimum, I suppose that I will have to split the difference and give the film as a whole the middle amount.
08/10/07
It's a beautiful movie with a heartwarming and, at times, very sad story, along with an important message for all of us.
08/06/07
The narrative by Linda Woolverton, Moses Richards and Kristin Gore humanizes the main characters more than most scripts manage to do.
08/06/07
When anthropomorphizing animals in an animated movie, it's effective and enjoyable. But when it's used in a documentary, the process is tantamount to cheating. Such is the case of "Arctic Tale".
08/06/07
The cinematography is stunning as it captures some amazing nature footage, but it's a film that you can easily watch and enjoy at home on video.
08/03/07
The point is made: life, as the wondrous animals of our very far north know it, is severely endangered. And that can only spell disaster for the inhabitants of lands farther south.
08/03/07
Though the journey is a little bumpy, it's still a trip well worth taking, for all ages.
08/03/07
The film does not preach; rather, it confronts us with the question: Now what are we going to do?
08/03/07
Despite the storytelling faults, Ravetch and Robertson offer remarkable footage from the evaporating Arctic.
08/03/07
Robertson, making her directorial debut with this American production, manipulates her images in a manner that distorts the truth and brings into question what a documentary film is supposed to do.
08/03/07
Despite its sad scenes, it sentimentalizes. It attributes human emotions and motivations to its central animals. Its music instructs us how to feel. And the narration and overall approach get in the way of the visual material.
08/03/07
Top CriticWatching these endangered species evolve new approaches to hunting and shelter is fascinating, but the movie is seriously marred by a cloying screenplay and such kid-pleasing touches as shots of walruses belching and farting.
08/03/07
The babies are adorable, the soundtrack choices ('We Are Family') obvious, the biological diversity awe-inspiring.
08/03/07
...suffers from happy feet.
08/03/07
Nevertheless, Arctic Tale is a kid-friendly, non-preachy window on the north as a place of wonder and a harbinger of change -- and I'll take Queen Latifah's warm voice over Al Gore's drone any day.
08/03/07
Top CriticWatching bear cubs and walrus pups struggling to survive against increasingly tough odds, and on ever-slushier ice shelves, has both its shamelessly manipulative side and its dramatically necessary side, as handled here.
08/02/07
Top CriticArctic is as charming as it is instructive.
08/02/07
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July 22, 2007:
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