Movie: March of the Penguins

Beautiful, but the DVD extras hurt the story My husband and I watched this movie while we rung in the New Year. It was very beautiful and they did a good job of engaging you in cheering on the penguins. And of course baby penguins are adorable. The only bad thing that was immediately obvious was some statements made in the narration that over-anthropomorphized the penguins. For example, they referred to the loss of the chick as “unbearable” for the mother penguin. After the movie, we watched all of the DVD extras and they ended up calling a lot of the movie into question. The documentary “Of Penguins and Men” seemed like a complete documentary of the penguins on its own, like perhaps it was the original product but they redid it later to remove the humans and turn it into a more emotionally sensitive story. Aside from the redundancy and a few small discrepancies, it also revealed the harshness and the holes in their observation of the penguins. We then went on to watch the included National Geographic “Crittercam” documentary and I found that to be the most informative and seemingly accurate. It made a lot more sense and had a lot less hyperbole. Anyway, the movie was still very good. Just keep in mind it is a story and don’t take it as 100% accurate and reflective of all emperor penguins’ cycles.