March of the Penguins
Tuesday 08/09/2005 11:12 AM
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Saw March of the Penguins last week with Candy. Did you know that this great movie is about to become the second highest grossing documentary of all time?
Narrated by Morgan Freeman, it tells the story of the emperor penguin and how its mating ritual requires multiple 70+ mile waddling treks across Antarctica several times a year.
Among all the images and scenes you've never dreamt possible, the thing I liked best was how I found myself continuously projecting so many human-like characters and roles onto the penguins. In one scene in particular where you have this unreal single file line of at least a thousand penguins, there is one bird just standing there like an usher, almost waving the others along like he's security for some penguin rock concert.
Before this movie came along, if you were to create an animated film about penguins and had your make believe black and white characters do half the stuff that happens in here, people would think you made the whole thing up and tell you that real penguins would never act like that.
And if you're still not convinced, take a look at its score on Rotten Tomatoes. This is a web site that doesn't review movies per se, but rather aggregates reviews from a variety of sources. Rotten Tomatoes then provides a single number from 1 to 100 indicating how good the movie is based upon a thumbs up or thumbs down from each review. Considering that The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring got 93%, Finding Nemo got 98% and (just to show you that not all movies score well) the recently released Dukes of Hazzard got 18%, the fact that March of the Penguins scored a 94% should be reason enough to see it.
Highly recommended.
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