Disney Nature Earth
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Actor: James Earl Jones, Patrick StewartBrand: DIS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-09-01
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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- An epicstory of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent andcourageous creatures alive, awaits you in EARTH. Disneynature bringsyou a remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across ourplanet -- polar bears, elephants and humpback whales. Filmed withspectacular clarity and beauty, EARTH is both majestic and intimate asit captures rare footage of nature's wildest and most elus
DVD Reviews of Disney Nature Earth
DVD Review: Dinner and a Show
Summary: 4 Stars
Disneynature EARTH - a throwback to Walt Disney's True Life Adventures. I wanted to go see this movie in theaters because of the stunning visuals and cinematography (that bird cloud? AMAZING!). I didn't want to go see it in theaters because I was afraid that animals would get eaten and/or there would be snakes (I HATE snakes). The good news is there were no snakes or reptiles in the film whatsoever, even in the rainforest scene. The bad news was that in practically every place they visited, an animal got eaten or died. Say hi to the polar bear family; the father is going to die because he cannot find enough to eat. Say hi to a blue whale mother and calf; they're going to eat fish. Look out for the great white shark; he's going to leap into the air and chomp down on a seal. The elephants will struggle across Africa; their babies almost dying in the desert because they cannot get enough to drink. They'll be attacked by lions at a watering hole. Then there's the cheetah; she's going to chase and tackle her dinner (poor thing. The gazelle, I mean). You get the idea. I know it's the circle of life and all, and that these things have happened every day for about forever, but do we have to actually SEE it? In slow motion? A few times?? I REALLY could have done without it. Really.
As for the scenery, it was spectacular! The views were gorgeous and from rarely seen places. The arctic, the rainforest, the wilds of Africa... Perhaps some of the most impressive footage was that of the mass migrations of birds, caribou, and the like. If it were not for EARTH, I would have never seen such a sight as long as I lived. As for the cinematography, while impressive, it made me feel a bit woozy at times even though I was sitting down. I'm glad I didn't seen that on a theater screen; I probably would have slid right out of the chair. Luckily those moments didn't last long and I was ok for most of the film (as long as someone wasn't getting attacked/eaten. I am the only one who feels pity for them?).
For me the best parts of the movie were the exotic birds in the rainforest (so interesting!) and the monkeys traveling across the watering hole in Africa (it was so adorable they way they hopped around not wanting to get wet!). James Earl Jones had the perfect narration with just the right amount facts, humor, and comfortable silence (nothing worse than a narrator who constantly jabs).
The only bonus feature, The Making of Earth the Movie, was also quite impressive, beginning with the fact that it was over 40 minutes long. It was very entertaining (watch out for that tree!), educational (fancy camera ya got there), and nice to meet all of the people behind the scenes; but watch out: they show the animals being attacked again - in slow motion, of course (didn't anybody else have pity for the attacked or eaten? Anybody?). Overall, as great as this film was, I'm glad I borrowed from the library instead of seeing it in theaters or buying the DVD. While beautiful, I just have no interest in seeing animals getting eaten/attacked/dying. Despite the death aspect of the circle of life, this was certainly a film worth seeing.
Description of Disney Nature Earth
Synopsis:Item Type: BLU-RAY DVD Movie
Item Rating: G
Street Date: 09/01/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
A nature documentary compiled from the vast footage of the BBC's and The Discovery Channel's Planet Earth series and produced by award-winning British producer and director Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, Earth is the first nature film from the newly formed Disneynature--a Disney independent film label dedicated to bringing high impact wildlife and environmental films to theaters. James Earl Jones narrates this US version of the 96-minute documentary film (the English and German version are narrated by Patrick Stewart and Ulrich Tukur, respectively) which follows families of arctic polar bears, African elephants, and humpback whales for an entire year. The film tracks the animals' migrations across the globe and through some of the harshest terrains and climates on earth, pointing out in a factual and remarkably non-political way the negative effects of global warming and habitat destruction on these animals and the planet as a whole. Selected from the over 4,000 days of cinematography that went into the making of Planet Earth, every image is breathtakingly spectacular (especially the first-ever aerial footage of Mount Everest) and Jones' concise narration is engaging and packed with information. What makes this film different from Planet Earth, besides the obvious shorter run-time, is the sense of story that permeates this film. While children and others disinclined toward factual documentaries or nature films might find Planet Earth overly long and somewhat dry, Earth views more like an entertainingly touching story about several animal families. The first story begins with an adorable look at two 2-month-old polar bears and their first encounter with the snow and ice outside their den. Viewers of all ages will raptly follow their long trek with their mother across the ice to the water's edge to find food. Danger looms in many places and the polar bears' father's desperate attempts to find food on the ice turn perilous when he ends up stranded in the icy water and is forced to swim to shore where he's outnumbered by fiercely protective walruses. Footage of over 42 kinds of strange and beautiful New Guinea birds of paradise is rich with their breathtaking sounds and colors as well as the trees, fungi, flowers, and plants of tropical rainforest they inhabit. In stark contrast to the moisture-rich tropical rainforests that cover a mere 3% of the earth's surface, but support about 50% of the planet's animals and plants, are the dry lands of the Kalahari desert of South Africa where we meet the African elephants. The elephants' epic quest for food and water leads a mother elephant and her baby across vast prairies, savannahs, grasslands, and barren desert to inland deltas and water holes where they are forced into a tense and fragile alliance with a variety of other animals including their natural predators. Frighteningly real (though not gory) footage of lions attacking the elephants may well scare or disturb young children and the faint of heart, but it serves as a poignant reminder of the natural circle of life. The humpback whales' long migration across half the globe is similarly fraught with danger, yet full of underwater beauty, just as the Adélie penguins' life in one of the earths' most inhospitable lands also features the unexpected beauty of the striking Aurora Australis lightshow. What tracking a year in the life of all these amazing animals demonstrates is not only the exceptional beauty and strikingly harsh realities of life in the wild, but also the resilience of earth's creatures. (Ages 5 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
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