March of the Penguins
Sunday a week ago we saw March of the Penguins, a documentary about the Emporer Penguins of Antartica.
The documentary describes the life and breeding habits of this penguin that lives in one of the coldest places on earth. It's a very nice movie to watch, and you get a lot of sympathy for the penguins who endure the freezing cold, icy storms and every year walk many, many miles between the sea and their safe breeding place. I like the movie's theme: "In the harshest place on earth, love finds a way."
We saw the movie using Comcast's movie-on-demand. The camera work in the movie is outstanding -- beautiful landscapes and very vivid close-ups of the animals; it's as if you're right next to them. The team that filmed the penguins must have spent many months in the freezing colds to capture these great images.
The narrative was done by Morgan Freeman. I have been told that in the Dutch version it was Urbanus, a Belgium comic, I am not sure if that is a good combination with the sometimes sad content of the film.
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March of the Penguins
I saw this movie also, i got "chickenskin" because of the sound when the penguins walked through the snow....
March of the Penguins
I looked it up once because I wanted to know the translation for our 'kippevel' and it turned out to be goose bumps :-)
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Urbanus did say his comments very well. He sometimes had a comic comment. The comment on the trailer of Warner sounds very dramatic. Puts a lot of drama in the daily life of the birds which I think is not necesary. Utbanus made it a more matter of fact film.
Jaap
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Wij wilden met ons gezinnetje ook naar deze film gaan kijken, maar spijtig genoeg speelden ze hem in België niet in originele versie, enkel Vlaams gesproken. Het werd ingesproken door Urbanus (ooit ook bekend met het achtervoegsel Van Anus), en dat is niet bepaald het soort van onnozel irritant stemmetje dat ik bij zo'n film wil horen. We zullen dus de DVD moeten aankopen...
March of the Penguins
just seen the movie too, very nice!