First Hit: Beautifully filmed and does provide interesting information about this unique blue ball we travel through space on. However, it fell short of telling a succinct story.
Without a television or DVD player I’ve not seen the series called Planet Earth which was an eleven episode view of our Planet narrated by David Attenborough.
Earth is a version of this narrated eloquently by James Earl Jones. It is formulistic in its presentation but the pictures are divine, full and rich in color and the immenseness and expansiveness are well choreographed.
For days following the film certain scenes reappeared in my mind. They include: The birds of Papua New Guinea, the male polar bear’s endless search for food, the large group of lions attacking the elephant, flocks of birds flying, the Cheetah’s head holding steady during a chase, and the relentless wolf.
There were many others as well. There were also facts that helped me understand Earth better. Two of such were that 1/3 of all the forests live in a ring just south of the North Pole and 1/3 of the earth is covered in desert.
Overall: Very entertaining and interesting. Although the polar bear family, the elephant family and the humpback whale family were part of the producers attempt to humanize nature; it took very little for me to see the beauty and relentlessness of nature unfolding itself to itself.