Sunday, July 24, 2005

The Movie Snob reports in from Lexington, Kentucky:

March of the Penguins (B). This is a French documentary about the life cycle of the emperor penguin, which lives in Antarctica. Every year, at the end of the summer, the penguins leave the sea and march inland for their mating rituals. The story of how they do this, and then raise their chicks through the harsh South Polar winter, is truly remarkable, and good old Morgan Freeman provides a nice narration. If the film has a downside, it is the degree to which the script anthropomorphizes these birds. Surely we can agree that what these creatures do is remarkable enough without saying, apparently quite literally, that they are acting out of love, joy, sorrow, or what have you.

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