March of the Penguins (Full Screen Edition)
by Luc Jacquet
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Director: Luc JacquetBrand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Laurent Chalet
Cinematographer: Jerome Maison
Editor: Sabine Emiliani
Narrator: Morgan Freeman
Producer: Yves Darondeau
Producer: Christophe Lioud
Producer: Emmanuel Priou
Producer: Ilann Girard
Writer: Jordan Roberts
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Published), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-29
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Model: 75116
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Modified to fit personal screens.
- Dual-Layer Format
- Bonus Material
- Dolby Digital
DVD Reviews of March of the Penguins (Full Screen Edition)
DVD Review: SPECTACULAR IMAGES. NO "FAMILY VALUES." JUST PENGUINS!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the documentary movie that members of the Religious Right infamously claimed supports their arguments for, among other things, creationism, intelligent design and family values.
I had joined an audience for "March of the Penguins" of some 200 patrons that was mainly made up of children between the ages of 5 and 12 with their parents in tow. While watching Luc Jacquet's epic animal movie, aside from constantly wondering how his team had managed to capture a never-ending series of amazing images -- many of them extreme close-ups in very sharp focus -- I was left with the persistent thought that being a penguin must be one of hardest, most dangerous lives on earth.
The scene is Antarctica at the South Pole where minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit on a windy day is mild -- if the sun is shining. Here, there are also months of perpetual frozen darkness. The penguins shown to us by Jacquet really didn't seem to mind. They had been adapted to this environment -- naturally selected would be Charles Darwin's description. Evolution is vindicated.
As the story line goes, the Emperor penguins managing to survive for 5 years commit their lives solely to continuing the species. That means trekking some 70-miles over the icy mountains and valleys of earth's most treacherous ice fields to breeding grounds, finding a mate, fertilizing and then laying an egg, keeping it warm with their bodies against the brutal conditions (more than one minute exposure to the freezing winds is certain death to the embryo inside), a two-week march back to the far distant break in the ice to feed, and hiking all the way back again to the breeding grounds for feeding the little ones meanwhile fending off aggressive predators and the elements.
The Antarctica penguins' amazing journey has indeed been captured before on camera. But the close-up lives of these aquatic birds has never been recorded as Jacquet had managed for his "March of the Penguins." The documentary shows the romantic rapture that exists in some form - however briefly - between the penguins once they mate. Staring into each other's eyes, we're encouraged to imagine that the birds seem to know that this is as good as it's ever going to get.
Although the film holds it to a minimum, there is a good deal of anthropomorphic interpretation in "March of the Penguins." But on the flip side of my veiled criticism there is the notion that if the narrator would comment, "Now here are some stunning examples of light-induced estrogen responses in South Polar aquatic birds," no one would pay to see this epic film.
My main criticism is about the seemingly political correctness of "March of the Penguins" by its NOT mentioning that global warming is a very significant recent threat to survival of the penguins. A scientific acquaintance of mine from Argentina who I used to meet at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, MA, spent most of his life studying female hormone cycles in Antarctica penguins. Ten years ago, he told me that everything has changed in the millions of years old life cycle of these birds just during the forty years of his study. Even the New York Times had reported in 2004 that as the ice shelf at the South Pole recedes from the too early arrival of spring, nowadays the immature penguins fall into the sea and drown before they are old enough to swim. None of this is mentioned in "March of the Penguins."
Overall, I join the chorus of those who rave about this penguin movie. If nothing else, you'll wonder how in the bitterly cold Antarctic world a group of Frenchmen managed to follow the lives of their subjects for several years; capturing spectacular images of these animals without disturbing them. How did they do it? Jacquet's incredible photography captures the strange creatures in an equally strange place in a way that has to be seen to be believed.
Meanwhile, those self-centered, self-righteous religious fanatics who've pounced upon Jacquet's film to dignify their mindless ideology should give it a rest!
Description of March of the Penguins (Full Screen Edition)
In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, in freezing cold temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest conditions on earth, all to find true love.DVD Features:
Documentaries:CRITTERCAM : EMPEROR PENGUINS: penguin diving and feeding
Documentary:OF MEN AND PENGUINS: The incredible filmmaking process of the movie
Other:8 BALL BUNNY: A classic WB animated short with Bugs Bunny and a penguin
March of the Penguins instantly qualifies as a wildlife classic, taking its place among other extraordinary films like Microcosmos and Winged Migration. French filmmaker Luc Jacquet and his devoted crew endured a full year of extreme conditions in Antarctica to capture the life cycle of Emperor penguins on film, and their diligence is evident in every striking frame of this 80-minute documentary. Narrated in soothing tones by Morgan Freeman, the film focuses on a colony of hundreds of Emperors as they return, in a single-file march of 70 miles or more, to their frozen breeding ground, far inland from the oceans where they thrive. At times dramatic, suspenseful, mischievous and just plain funny, the film conveys the intensity of the penguins' breeding cycle, and their treacherous task of protecting eggs and hatchlings in temperatures as low as 128 degrees below zero. There is some brief mating-ritual violence and sad moments of loss, but March of the Penguins remains family-friendly throughout, and kids especially will enjoy the Antarctic blue-ice vistas and the playful, waddling appeal of the penguins, who can be slapstick clumsy or magnificently graceful, depending on the circumstances. A marvel of wildlife cinematography, this unique film offers a front-row seat to these amazing creatures, balancing just enough scientific information with the entertaining visuals. --Jeff Shannon
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