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91This super-duper deluxe nature documentary clearly aims to recruit young viewers as conservationists.
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88Whereas the TV series rarely flinched when it came to showing the animal world as it is, Earth always pulls back at the last second. It shows a cheetah pulling down a gazelle, but not the feast that follows.
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83For most of the way this is an eye-popping, not blood-curdling, experience.
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80The ascribing of emotions to these critters can get a little Lion King-ripe at times. But the filmmakers have filled in around their "family" narratives with footage that is breathtaking enough on a towering screen -- and you should find the biggest one possible -- that it is hard to object too strenuously.
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80State-of-the-art camera equipment captures images of startling clarity and proximity. There isn't one frame of CGI.
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80It would be Pollyannaish to pretend that the documentary Earth is without its problems, but the bottom line is, difficulties be damned, it shouldn't be missed.
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80A ravishing distillation of the BBC/Discovery series "Planet Earth," docu brings to the large screen memorable images that cried out on TV for the full movie-going experience.
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80Earth eloquently shows the struggle, life doing what it must to sustain life. The spectacle is stirring.
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75Filled with unexpected facts.
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75Earth, you had me at baby polar bears.
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75A wide-screen wildlife documentary in which the cycles of birth and death, migrations and seasons, are captured in stunning - absolutely stunning - ways.
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75The overall tone of the film is absolutely appropriate for all ages, and it's never too early to learn the importance of preserving our planet.
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75This Earth doesn't really have anything new to say, but it does present some newly entertaining ways of saying it.
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75It requires only four words to describe Earth: glorious photography, annoying narration.
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75By hiring James Earl Jones to narrate, Disney has prepared youngsters to understand that man is equally capable of heroism and villainy.
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Nothing too graphic, but it creates drama, as it's only natural to root for the hunted in a film like this.
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Although Earth falls short of its potential, it still contains enough glorious photography to please its target audience.
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70This is nature defanged and declawed for kiddie consumption, so the emphasis is on awwww-filled moments.
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70A gorgeously photographed storybook.
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70This first feature from Disney's new nature division has an encyclopedic reach and spectacular footage shot by more than two dozen crack cinematographers.
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67This first release from Disney's self-explanatory new arm, Disneynature, is at the very least peripherally concerned with the planet and its dwindling prospects, but the real renewable resource here is the groundbreaking "Planet Earth" miniseries.
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67On the nature-documentary continuum, Earth falls closer to the cuddly anthropomorphism of "March Of The Penguins" than the cold rationality of "Grizzly Man."
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63If you've watched the BBC series "Planet Earth," then Earth will seem like a familiar, if stunning, global rewarming.
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60As a virtual tour of what Earth Day is about, kids ought to be entranced. If it helps them get greener, even better.
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60There's nothing in Earth that's as moving as the sight of the mother penguin "grieving" for her chick in "March of the Penguins." You can applaud Earth for not jerking tears. On the other hand, an occasional tear isn't such a bad thing.
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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.
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AlD10I saw this on the big screen and was in awe. A nature documentary that is simply the best of its genre.
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