Overview
Genre :
DocumentaryRelease Date :
April 20, 2012MPAA Rating :
GDirector :
Mark Linfield, Alastair FothergillStarring :
Tim Allen
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“..you'll have a good idea of the annoyance level the comedian's narration provides..”
by David Fear [Time Out New York]
“..with visually stunning, almost impossibly intimate results..”
by Andrew Barker [Variety]
“..while the struggle for survival can seem like a battle, the script creates an unnecessary heroes-villains perspective..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
“..this squeamishness banishes all but the most vanilla facts and images..”
by Jeannette Catsoulis [New York Times]
“..the film's breathtaking visuals, and the brave and affectionate hearts of these beautiful creatures continue to draw us back in..”
by Nell Minow [Chicago Sun-Times]
“..the film is not designed to answer every question but to inspire youthful curiosity..”
by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
“..the cameras are so close you assume they have to have been unmanned and placed with extraordinary luck..”
by Mary F. Pols [TIME Magazine]
“..the burden of massaging the natural-habitat footage into an intelligible rival-families narrative, though, falls to the voiceover script..”
by Benjamin Mercer [Village Voice]
“..the antagonism between the two tribes is pretty compelling, and a less condescending, fairy-taleish nature doc..”
by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies]
“..still makes you long for something a little quieter, something like the old "Wild, Wild World of Animals" television show..”
by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic]
“..silly non sequiturs, like "Don't forget the side salad," as the chimps revert to leaves after feasting on a dead monkey, feel childish and trite..”
by Dan Hudak [Orlando Weekly]
“..in "Chimpanzee," nature is beige in tooth and claw..”
by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]
“..by this time the uncredited narration, voiced in cornball fashion by Tim Allen, has made this turn of events seem like old-style Disney hokum whether it actually happened this way or not..”
by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter]
