Monday, July 5, 2010

Earth

Ratings: 7.5/10
Genre: Documentary
Overall value for time and money: 7.8/10

A documentary movie about the beauty of life on earth, and how its changes also affects its life. No humans involved, mainly land animals and some screen time dedicated to marine life. Animals ranges from the four main migratory families; polar bears, to birds, to elephants to humpback whales and many more. This shorter version is re-created from the Planet Earth documentary series.

I've caught a great deal of Planet Earth series before, therefore I've seen a couple of familiar, repeated scenes in this movie. However, this is like the summary, the "best of Planet Earth" all gathered in one short movie. The beauty of life on earth was really brought out through the lens of the filmakers and the cinematography was almost flawless.

The storyline was a little meshed up, but I wouldn't know how to do it any other way as well. The flow wasn't all that smooth, but it was such a trivial matter in relation to the cinematography and the different phases and faces of life on earth. Nothing to graphic (animal predation with the gruesome after scenes cut off) and the documentary touched and go on many of the other beautiful species around... such as dolphins and penguins.

To sum it up, breathataking and beautiful on a "universal level". Earth's finest moments, greatest beauties brought to the big screens.

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