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100It's mesmerizing. [26 Mar 2012, p.44]
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100This is high-definition bliss.
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100Frozen Planet [is] perhaps the single greatest accomplishment in nature TV history.
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100A gorgeous new documentary series on the Discovery Channel.
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100It joins "Planet Earth" and "Life" to reign as a triumvirate in Best Buy showrooms. Nothing looks better, sounds better.
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100Stunning, beautiful, hypnotic, engrossing, spectacular... That oughta do it here as well, except Frozen Planet unexpectedly adds another word: Unprecedented.
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100Frozen Planet is one of those instantly riveting series where you marvel at the beauty and majesty of it all but also spare more than a passing thought for the effort involved.
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91The stunningly shot result will make you wonder at the cruel beauty of nature. [16 Mar 2012, p.67]
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90It's all breathtaking in much the way that you'd suspect.
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90Granted, parts of the series feel like a rehash of "March of the Penguins," but there's enough jaw-dropping footage in this seven-part undertaking--including one installment devoted strictly to how the footage was captured--that nobody with even vague interest in the subject matter should be left feeling cold.
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90An endlessly fascinating seven-part foray into the most remote and unforgiving regions of the Arctic and Antarctic.
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80It's not that we haven't seen the polar regions before. But this special, narrated by Alec Baldwin, puts it all together in a way that makes it feel consistently more intriguing than the nature films you remember from school.
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80The artfully composed images are both crystal clear and cinematically creamy.
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70Frozen Planet recycles some material from previous films from under the same umbrella (I'm pretty sure those duck-hunting wolves were in Life) as well as covering territory very well-trodden by other films.
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70These images will stick with you. But so will an overall sense that Frozen Planet is more--a lot more--of the same: an aestheticized, sentimentalized, anthropomorphic abstraction of the natural world, in which gentle soundtrack music, winsome narration (by Alec Baldwin, replacing Mr. Attenborough for most of the American version) and the judicious use of slow motion combine to put us in a pleasant stupor on the couch.
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Pretty Amazing Show!