Review: Earth

Anyone who’s figured out that Global Warming is socialism disguised as nonsense will immediately understand why DisneyNature’s “Earth” was dropped into theatres and aimed at your children on Earth Day. The subtext, as defined by a running subplot involving the struggle of “Papa the Polar Bear,” is how the warming of the earth is endangering the cutest animal families you ever will see. This warming is never openly blamed on man, but it no longer needs to be. Years of dishonest propaganda have laid that groundwork so well that “Earth” can toss off the warming fallacy in the most effective of ways: matter-of-factly.

Propa-nonsense or no, the saving grace of any theatrical nature documentary should be the photography, but I’ve read that “Earth” uses footage from, and is nothing more than a boiled down version of, the “Planet Earth” television series (recycling?), and it shows. There aren’t more than a few shots that rose above my childhood memories of what good ole Marlin Perkins introduced in Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom” every Saturday afternoon in the seventies.

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