march of the penguins - worth a look?

[scotchick]

is it? for a ds7 and ds5

i loved it, as did DH - a real documentry tho.

there are a few bits that i wouldnt let a child of 5 watch, but depends on what he is like. (penguins being eaten for example)

oh and i cried lots!

It's very odd. I mean, there are these penguins, stomping miles and miles and miles through this arctic bloody gale, loads of times, dying in huge numbers, getting eaten by other predators, hatching chicks which may freeze to death instantly - all quite bizarre....with this voiceover which tries to make it into the Great American Family Dream.

aha! Not animated then. I thought it was. Oh well, it's all we've got for our dvd friday night....

ahem MI that was antarctic surely?

Oh shite

Look, I have an English degree, OK, it's all 'cold places abroad with a Pole' to me

PMSL. I am sure it was a deliberate mistake to see if we were awake (or which pedantic idiot would point it out - oops that would be me then )

It's OK MI, you were using 'arctic' as an adjective, meaning as cold as the Arctic - you could use it about a winter's day in Britain if you liked, without implying anything about geographical location.

right, that didn't work then. At the bit when the seal ate one of the female penguins, my 7 yr old left the room in tears and my 5 yr old lay on the sofa and sobbed. Then we had to put it off.

Isn't it amazing that they've watched Star Wars and Harry Potter and Dr Who, and all those scary bits and yet they can't handle a bit of reality tv. Very interesting.

What made me sad though, was when Morgan Freeman said that not only was that female penguin killed, but the egg that her hubby was looking after would not survive either, without food. And I imagined all the women coming back, and the men thinking 'thank f**k, it's bloody baltic and I'm starving' and one man would be waiting,and waiting and his wife wouldn't appear and slowly it would sink in that she was never coming back.

Bloody hell.

i went to see it in march, ds 2(5) cried and ds1 (11 at the time) declared it a load of rubbish!
ill be honest and say that it went on a little bit too long as it was a documentry and i lost the will to live.
i cried too at the end but i dont know if it was because it had finished and i was crying with relief.

you cried at the end? Jeez, did it get even sadder? I'm going out in a minute, but will probably watch it later tonight or tomorrow. I'll brace myself!

well i think it was the fact they had gone through all that, then they trouped off to do it all again and i thought, god an emperor penguins life is shit.

Stupid buggers, though - they've determinedly stayed in the ANTarctic (phew) while every other beast with any sense (except things which eat penguins) migrate to somewhere a bit nicer.