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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Do you want to see Disney’s ‘Earth’?
On this Earth Day, it’s only too appropriate to ask if you want see Earth or not.
That would be Earth as in the new nature film Disney is releasing to theaters today.
Those of you who read me regularly know well my love for almost all things Disney (the trailer for Beverly Hills Chihuahua aside). So it might surprise you to learn I’m kind of on the fence about seeing the movie. And I surprise myself typing that.
It’s also surprising because I’ve seen and enjoyed a lot of nature/outoor documentaries in the theater, ranging from Everest to Winged Migration to March of the Penguins.
And therein lies the reason for my doubt right there, I think. Disney’s rather late to the party on this one. The footage in the trailer does look gorgeous …
… but what is Earth adding to the Nature experience I haven’t seen already? I also find it a little dispiriting that whereas Disney once set trends with their classic True Life Adventure series, now they’re following trends, which I (and Frank Carpa) lamented about in my post Monday. The prospect might have been more inviting if that had been, say, an IMAX release.
And besides all that, Disney already released a really great “green” movie. It was called WALL-E.
Maybe I’m being too skeptical. Am I missing something here? Are you anxious to see Disney’s Earth? Why or why not?
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