Comments on: Disney’s Earth Movie Is Breathtaking – but Misses an Opportunity to Educate

By: Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:50:29 +0000

Thank you, thank you for your review. My husband and I rented the movie for our 4 yrs old son who loves animals! I was worried that, as always, we would have to endure animals being killed. I realize it’s part of nature, but I don’t think it’s appropriate for little children. They will learn soon enough about those things. Same on Disney for rating it “G”! Thank you for the “heads up”…I have the “skip button” on hand.

By: Ian Simpson

Ian Simpson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:13:15 +0000

I am a kid who has watched this movie several times who can say that this movie is a load of crap! With the bear limping, the people probably shot it in the leg with a tranq. so It would appear wounded and go to sleep. On the binus features of the DVD, it even tells how the polar bear was not struggling to survive how it left it’s shore to go swimming for fun, it was relaxed!

By: bob

bob — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:59:18 +0000

My 6 year old daughter was so bored by this insipid junk she insisted we walk out after an hour. Nice photography but I agree-a missed opportunity. Reminded me of MoH’s Wild Kingdom!

By: Greenies Gone Wild

Greenies Gone Wild — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:48:25 +0000

Sadly, the eco-radicals have scared our children..and parents we must stand up to this eco-brainwashing in our schools…enough already! Ask yourselves..how many hours of teacher time, paper etc. has been spent on “environmental causes” disguised as academic lessons (and now cropping up in all subjects_)? How many activities, notices, etc. did your kid’s school have for EARTH Day? Now think about how many (if any) activities your children’s school did for Memorial Day, or Veteran’s Day or Flag Day, Constitution Day? So our kids might be very versed on “trashology”..that is …knowledge about recycling, but don’t know a thing about History, Civics, our Constitution. Houston, I think we have a problem.

By: Greenies Gone Wild

Greenies Gone Wild — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:43:15 +0000

This movie as all environmental propaganda targets children to primarily scare them into submission ….and the idea that humans are bad, destructive and animals and plants are somehow “innocent” and more important than humans. There was a recent study of U.S. school children that revealed that fully 1/3 of all kids believe that the environment will be destroyed by the time they grow up —the eco-radicals should be proud of themselves.
It’s one thing to be good stewards of the Earth, and not be wasteful, but don’t lose perspective here…humans are not bad, destructive and animals and plants are not more important than humans. The only way to not have a carbon footprint is to eliminate humans…as the eco-radicals arguments go…let’s be careful about the messages sent by the eco-radicals, including the brainwashing going on in the elementary schools.

By: Dolly Bates

Dolly Bates — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:15:06 +0000

How do we get that tree planted? We went to this movie the first week it was up. Enjoyed it.

By: martinez

martinez — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:06:15 +0000

This movie lures a family in with its Disney branding but lays entirely too much on young sensitive children (my 7yo couldn’t stop crying and finally had to leave the theatre). It could easily backfire in getting children to cut themselves off from feeling for the animals in self-defense. Making it either as traumatic or as desensitizing as a video game. People already attuned to enviro-issues will be the main audience and I for one find it refreshing when I can find a good educational, informative nature special that does not shove guilt down my throat along with my dose of fascinating information.(of which, I felt, this film had all too little)

By: joepa

joepa — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:29:23 +0000

this movie was rubbish..its simply clips from planet earth w/ james earl jones doing the voiceover instead of sig. weaver..actually sig. weaver is much better narrator..what a waste of money..dumbest part was during whale migration..whales are in southern ocean..earl jones..”whales safe…until now” flash to the great white shark vids shot in s. africa..as if the shark in south africa is posing a threat to the whales in the southern ocean??? please…this movie sucked..

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:17:48 +0000

Earth is a shockingly poor movie.
The cinematography, colors and camera work are all EXCELLENT but that is where it ends.
Unfortunately, that is also where Disney begins.
The shots are almost all ripped from the fabulous BBC series Planet Earth and are, visually, stunning. However, it seems like the film makers have let Mickey Mouse write the script and Dumbo do the editing.
The script is trite, sugary, lacking in scientific fact and actually contradicts itself more than once (the baby whale is male, then female later in the story). The narrative jumps from animal family to animal family without justifying the switch or giving closure to any one of the mini-vignettes painted.
The part where the cheetah chases down the antelope is supposed to show (according to the narration) the ‘circle of life’ – yet the film cuts away before the kill leaving the circle more of a curve. fair enough, it’s supposed to be a ‘G’ movie, but you cannot extol the virtue of witnessing the ‘circle of life’ and then cut away before that same circle is rounded out.
Overall, a shockingly poor use of some stunning film. The BBC should sue for cruel and unusual punishment of it’s beautiful footage.

By: eeek

eeek — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:44:57 +0000

I’m all about doing what I can to help our beautiful planet Earth. I did not leave the theater happy and inspired. My husband’s words, “I don’t care to see animals suffer.” That coming from a man, people. If you love animals, and you go to the movies for fluffy feelings, this movie is bitter-sweet. Give me a second version that I can watch without having to close my eyes. I know it’s out there, I don’t need to see it, nor do I choose to watch baby animals being hunted.