Should You Go See Disney's 'Earth'?

Spoiler alert...if you don't want to know the outcome of one of the animal families followed in this documentary, stop reading.

I was excited to see 'Earth' on a gigantic screen with surround sound. Love animals. Love movies about animals.

Disney follows a Polar bear family, some elephants and other migrating animals and mammals. The scenery is spectacular, the filming top notch.

But I did not go to that film to see a father Polar bear die right before my eyes. That, after watching him slowly starve to death throughout the entire movie. I didn't see the point of that final scene when he lies down and closes his eyes.

The theater was packed with children. In fact, I heard a little girl about 4 ask her mom why the Polar bear didn't get up. Uh...he's really, really sleepy?

Another disturbing scene shows a pride of lions attacking a baby elephant.

I know the animal kingdom is brutal, survival of the fittest, etc. But Disney? In a family movie?

Another thing...this 2 hour movie could have been 1 hour. It really dragged on, and with James Earl Jones sloooow narration, seemed to travel at a snail's pace.

I think Disney missed the boat on this one.

By the way, a matinee in The OC is $10.50..so enjoy the Getz's bargain pricing.

Comments

[Kim Murphy]

Sorry Russ, but the Arctic ice pack in 2007 was the lowest on record. I have spent a lot of time up on the North Slope and in the Canadia Arctic, and the reality is that polar bears are having a horrible time coping with the fact that their ice floes are disappearing. They're having to swim for miles between them, and bodies of drowned and emaciated polar bears have started washing up on shore. I have photos if you want them. Heart rending? You bet.

[Russ Steele]

Learn what KIm? They should be learning science and know that doubling to CO2 could only increase temperature by just a little over one degree. They could learn that temperature stopped rising in 2003, and is now declining, while the CO2 continues to rise. They could learn the sunspots have almost vanished, and in the past when they vanished the earth got cooler. The could learn that the Arctic ice is growing thicker and its extension is nearing normal. What you all saw was not science, it was heart rendering crap!

[Dixie Redfearn]

I know, I just wish I didn't have to see the Polar Bear Daddy die, that's all.

[Kim Murphy]

If we don't teach our children what is happening as a result of their own future decisions to drive SUVs, turn up the thermostat to 75-degrees and allow their politicians to build more coal-fired power plants and let cap-and-trade legislation die in Congress, then HOW ARE THEY GOING TO LEARN? Thank God if Disney is being forced to admit it ain't all Disney out there, folks.