- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release Date: Apr 20, 2012
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- Starring: Meryl Streep
- Summary: The film takes audiences on a never-before-experienced journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her twin seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home. (Warner Bros.)
- Director: Greg MacGillivray
- Genre(s): Documentary
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 13
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Mixed: 7 out of 13
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Negative: 2 out of 13
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75Visually stunning and narratively stunted, this IMAX documentary is the family version of 2006's "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on global warming.
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58Filmmaker Greg MacGillivray, a specialist in gigantic-screen nature movies including "The Living Sea," is up to date in his use of 70mm IMAX film, but he's stuck in the past about how to tell a story.
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50After seven trips made over four years, the production was about to wrap when the crew, aboard an icebreaker, encountered a polar bear mom and twin cubs that decided to hang around for a week – offering a rare opportunity to film the daily life of these notoriously camera-shy creatures.
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38Yes, there's some spectacular footage. But there's also an awful lot of filler for a 40-minute movie.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 1 out of 2