When the popularity of one movie takes the industry by storm there is always a rush to capitalize on that popularity by making more movies of the same type. A few years back when "March of the Penguins" came out no one really saw how much the audience was going to love the film. Even though the creators of March and An Inconvenient Truth did this film, it just doesn't have the playfulness of the first film or the bite of the second.
The struggle of life in the changing world of the Arctic wilderness through the eyes of a young polar bear and walrus as they grow up in a world where the cycle of life is changed by global warming. The photography is like any other documentary that has been done over the years about the wildlife of this planet but here stretching it out an extra half hour doesn't make it any better. Some of the interactions between the different forms of life in the Arctic are interesting to watch and with the narration done by Queen Latifah you do have some fun seeing these animals struggle to survive.
Now that there are so many cable channels to cover everyone's interests, the most popular documentaries have been on television and that's where this belongs. It tries to hard to be as playful and caring as March but the scenes are to long and should have been edited down. After watching this film you get the distinct feeling that originally this was an hour documentary for the National Geographic Channel and edited footage was placed back in to carry it to 90 minutes and make it a theatrical release. As a documentary for children to learn from its good, but for an adult, if your looking for something that will keep your interest from beginning to end this isn't it.
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