Earth (2009)

A Major Disappointment

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

EARTH (2007) looks like a Great Movie in Production! Since the beginning of the Production of the film, Earth, i am delighted & pleased to see that the Animal Kingdom stars of the movie, & EARTH, the Movie itself has had a Baby! i have Not yet had the Opportunity to see Earth. Nor Any of the Accompanying documentaries to Earth. DisneyNature is NEW! i have Not had any Exposure to DisneyNature thus far. Fun to see Something Other than Cartoons out of Disney. My main Documentary source is of course National Geographic. i am going to Investigate if there Are Any DisneyNature publications, such as: Books; Magazines; or even Globes! My main Review is just to congratulate Earth on having it's First Baby. Good Luck.

Just finished watching it. Amazingly beautiful scenery, beautiful stories, it really opens the eyes of someone regarding global warming. Our world is beautiful, each and every creature living on it makes it more beautiful. We should preserve as good as we can our environment. I could watch this documentary over and over again without getting bored, just not to forget how much animals are struggling these days to survive.Disney has once again fascinated me as it always did with its unique way of describing things, of making me understand.Show this documentary to everyone. Maybe we can change something. Make this world a better place.

I saw the German version of the movie in German television and I was really amazed. I generally like to see documentaries, but I can't remember to have seen one that is better than 'Earth'. I knew some of the scenes from Youtube videos that I found by random browsing. I also remember to have seen parts of the film on multimedia stores, running on the displayed high definition TVs. After seeing the movie it's obvious to me why the footage is so popular among Youtube users and multimedia retail managers: It's just so awesome and spectacular that you can't help but stare on the screen, no matter if you're generally interested in nature documentaries or not.Without hesitating a 10 out of 10. For sure, there are more thrilling movies, but in regard of documentaries, 'Earth' is definitely one of the best of it's genre.

This movie is fun to watch, though one starts to feel kind of voyeuristic soon, watching so many "intimate" moments between animals. I put 'intimate' in quotations, because the script given to James Earl Jones is full of human projections upon the animals with more or less success; at times the captions are far-fetched and detract from the movie; other times, they are hilarious (like with monkeys avoiding getting their hands wet). Hands down, the funniest animal is the bird doing the jumpy wide-wings mating ritual; we couldn't stop laughing.This movie is incredibly sad and in a very un-Disney-like way, leaves a lot of loose ends. I suppose this is the Realism of Nature, yet, the storyboard in the captions makes it nearly traumatic as a viewer (like the baby elephant going the wrong way and the daddy polar bear who dies because of global warming making the ice thin...the same point and animal in CGI in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth). I guess I am very appreciative of the camera-work capturing such beauty, but for strictly an artistic experience, the captions should be dropped and viewers should make their own interpretations (which happens anyway!)