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Film · 2005 · Nature documentary
March of the Penguins
Directed by Luc Jacquet
2005
★ 3.3 editorial score
The American release swapped the French version's talking penguins for Morgan Freeman narrating, and it became a phenomenon: a colony walks seventy miles inland to breed in the Antarctic winter.
“This sentimental but riveting film has no qualms about playing on our emotions. One teaser ad announces, "In the harshest place on earth, love finds a way," over a picture of a mature penguin gracefully bending down to feed one of its open-mouthed young from its beak...Morgan Freeman's warm, dignified narration completes the anthropomorphic connection.”
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