this be a run of the mill nature porn movie . by porn and i do not mean sex . i mean gratuitous image of ( for example ) thousand of bird together and or hundred of walrus and or a giant waterfall or iceberg . several of the shot in the film seem to exist solely to make their way into the trailer and to get people into theatre to see it for all of ten second before it disappear never to be see again for the rest of the film . there be almost no plot in this film . tell to expect a story of three animal family and good than march of the penguin and the movie simply doesn not deliver . the blame rest in three key area represent ( 1 ) the writer who give james earl jones some of the bad line to narrate in nature film history and ( 2 ) the music team who over dramatize everything to tell you what you should be feel and even when the film fail to motivate and and lastly but most importantly ( 3 ) the editor who have the story jump from place to place with no rhyme or reason and no continuity and no flow and suck the life out of the entire film a film about life . when we get to the whale halfway through the film and i sink back in my seat with dread and hop against hope that the film be more than halfway through and and that i would be able to survive the long endurance test along with the animal on screen . there be also almost no science in the film at all . they attribute hot and cold ( all of it and not just the season ) solely to the earth tilt and ignore the fact that we would have even great extreme from location to location if there be no tilt because the pole would never warm . and it would be worst if we have no rotation ( relative to revolution ) like mercury and because half the planet would bake and the other half would freeze . then near the end they use the phrase human and animal and a if human be not animal and somehow exempt from the law of nature . so much for science . i must credit the camera work and however and and again that be why i call this nature porn . everything from super slow motion to what appear to be a finely tune mechanically controlled time lapse photography and be put to use to provide some ( and i caution and only some ) stunning moment that do raise the bar compare to other nature film . that say and i be not convince that it be all nature on the screen . some of the shot show the great watering hole in africa and a it change from season to season seem like cgi to me . a director might have expect such suspicion and build in other shot to demonstrate that it all natural and but they do not do that . for a film about earth and i have expect a lot more of earth to be show . what we saw be pristine . we have to take the narrator word for it that some specie be at risk due to climate change . they do not show u evidence of it . they do not show u alberta poisonous tail pond visible from space . they do not show u the great pacific trash whorl . they do not show u a nighttime picture of human light pollution around the planet . these be as much earth a anything else . why cover it up for a feel good whitewash . my last criticism of the content be of predation . any time a predator be show on the screen actually hunt prey and the music turn almost into that mt doom scene from lord of the ring and with the predator portray a some kind of sauron ultimate evil character . but predator aren not evil . they perform a necessary service and ensure that the best member of the prey specie survive . we be predators ourselves . any time the predator catch the prey and we immediately cut away to something else and to sort of pretend that death and eat do not really happen . the final insult be the dad polar bear be leave to die after he dare to try to eat . bad bear . bad . and you can almost hear them say . on to the presentation itself . my theatre may be in part to blame for this and but maybe not . i have expect to see something with great clarity than i could see on my own hdtv lcd at home . but the picture be blurry and and be present in the same 16 represent9 ratio i could get at home and instead of the wider ratio many film come in these day . and during one action pack scene near the end and the film ( i can not imagine this happen digitally and from how it look ) be damage and and we lose several of the color and eventually black out completely . that repeat about three time . if they actually do plant a tree on my behalf and it will have be worth it . but how will i know .