After hearing about this movie from several blogs I checked out the preview for it. It seemed interesting enough, and certainly an appropriate way to spend a 102 degree afternoon - inside an air-conditioned theater watching penguins in an Antarctic winter.

I must say that it was rather well done. It feels like a typical IMAX movie, but with enough of a continuous story to it that you tend to forget that human beings had to survive those conditions in order to capture those magic moments and awe-inspiring images. In fact, the footage of the cameramen themselves during the credit roll at the end of the movie comes as a bit of a shock.

The movie also delicately anthropomorphizes the Emperor penguin's yearly reproductive ritual - just enough to capture your imagination, emotions and draw you into the spectacle, but not so much that it does a disservice to nature, science and reality.

One additional observation: Emperor penguin chicks are cute. That's saying something, since I think most newly hatched birds are about the ugliest things on the face of the planet. Not the Emperor penguin, which comes out of the shell looking like some avian form of a giant panda baby with those fuzzy white rings around the eyes.

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