The March of the Penguins

Penguins 


An awesome documentary about the lives of Emperor Penguins.

Each summer, the penguins come up on top of the ice in Antarctica for mating season. Thousands of them march together in single file and gather together to their breeding grounds.

It's amazing what they have to go through. They have to brave 150 mph blizzard storms, seals, and other dangers to keep their species alive.

Once they gather to their breeding grounds, they each have to find a husband or wife. Once they find each other, they fall in love and then make love. They look into each others' eyes and kiss with their beaks. The guy comes around behind the female and makes love. Sometimes, it looks like the guy stands on top of the female while they do it.

Once the egg is laid, the father has to keep the egg warm until it hatches. The mother goes off for a few months to feed, fatten herself up, and bring food for the baby. During this time, the father doesn't eat anything and has to keep the baby warm during these blizzards.

A lot of eggs and babies die during these storms. The penguins look really depressed when they see their own babies dying. This film proves that they have feelings. Penguins have souls.

Once the mother returns, it's the father's turn to go off and feed. If mother doesn't come back in time, father and baby will die. The mother regurgitates the food to feed the baby. The baby eats the barf from the mother's beaks.

The baby penguins are super cute.

It was sad to see one of the predator birds kill one of the baby penguins. You feel that the bird was evil, but it probably had to feed its own kids.

That's life in the wild.

The good: Amazing camera shots of the penguins. Cute baby penguins.

The bad: Even though it was a short film, a lot of it was the same stuff. ---Showing penguins over and over. They all look the same to me.

The verdict: This amazing cinematic documentary humanizes penguins to the point that people begin to believe they have souls.

My rating: B, 88.