Customer Reviews

how wonderful - By: Ms. F. I. Macdonald, 26 Apr 2008
what a lovely film. The penguins are adorable, i found myself laughing & crying along with them. They are beautiful animals & morgan freeman narrates the story incrediably well!a must watch film!

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Fabulous - By: Garry Williams, 14 Mar 2008


How on earth anyone can fail to be transfixed by this wonderful film is completely beyond me. Some reviewers have claimed that it is 'too slow' - well, learn a little patience & stop subscribing to the 'it has to be fast paced to be good' school of thought. Some stories take time to unfold & are the better for a measured pace. And as to those reviewers who have trounced it because it upset their kids - well, this is nature, redin tooth & claw, where things dont always end 'happy ever after'. If its non-stop jollity you're after, you should have rented 'Happy Feet'. And those who trashed Morgan Freeman's narration because it ascribes human emotions to the penguins - who is to say that animals dont feel emotion? Why do humans think they are the only creatures on the planet that can do so? Presumably these are the people whose religious credo teaches them that animals dont have a soul. The cries of the mother penguin over the dead body of her chick who has wandered away & been caughtin the storm were truly heart rending. This is a wonderful, profund, elegant & visually stunning film, made all the better because it is a real-life story about some of the fascinating creatures which share this little blue & green planet of ours. The earth isnt some enormous Disney theme park but a wild, beautiful & sometimes dangerous place. But, with all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams, human greed & rapaciousness, it is still a beautiful world & this film proves it. It should be required viewingin every schoolin the country.

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Amazing - By: Tangerine, 26 Feb 2008
This film shows the incredible journey that Emperor Penguins take every year to ensure their kind lives on. They follow the same path as their ancestors without a map to the thickest part of the ice (over 70 miles away) to look after their young. Both mother & father brave possible starvation & bitter winter storms to keep thier young safe. Narrated by Morgan Freeman this film is a tremendous insight into a species & its total will to survive. Superb.

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Drag of the Penguins - By: Alan Macgregor, 21 Dec 2007
This was sadly disappointing. It taught me nothing about emperor penguins I didn't already know. It was "precious" & altogether tedious.

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An Absolute Treasure. Beautiful In Every Single Way. - By: ChrisHaydon, 26 Oct 2007
I am completly open-minded about film & cinema as it is what I want to pursue as my careerin later life. I will pretty much watch anything within reason. I really wanted to see this film when it hit the cinemas but I never got around to it. I purchased the DVD last week & I was completely blown away. This is a piece of cinematic history.
The cinematography is just fantastic & so beautiful it fills the eyes with tears. Just to make this little one even better, it has the voice of all reason narrating it, Morgan Freeman, without a doubt, the finest actorin Hollywoodin my opinion.
Every motion picture Mr. Freeman has beenin have been totally epic, from 'The Shawshank Redemption' to 'Se7en' to 'The Sum Of All Fears' to 'Along Came A Spider' to 'Bruce Almighty' & 'Million Dollar Baby', all these films have been fantastic & he does a cracking jobin this little beauty.
But this is'nt the only film Freeman had narrated though, he does a fine jobin the re-make of 'The War Of The Worlds' too. Considering the man's 70 years old, I think it's safe to say, he is just phenomenal.

'March Of The Penguins' is a complete must for everybody, regardless what films you prefer to watch or your age. This film is just heart-warming & it will release a side of emotion that you may not be aware of you having. This film is a compulsory addition to anyone's DVD collection and
as Amazon.co.uk are selling it for under £4, you would be a big fool for missing out to be honest.

This film is like no other documentary I have ever seen & I tend to watch quite a lot of documentaries. It's co-produced by National Geographic so you can already tell that the images will be fascinating.

This is the perfect family film or a film to watch with your partner, it's just so beautiful & creative, you will want to watch it over & over.
This film is just what family cinema needed.