Penguins's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
Even more than those acclaimed lion, chimp and bear films that have preceded it, Penguins proves especially delightful ? a coming-of-age story outfitted with an engaging anthropomorphic overlay that can make you forget you?re watching an intimately filmed documentary instead of an animated adventure.
Indiewire
With 'Penguins', frequent Disneynature filmmaker Alastair Fothergill and franchise newbie Jeff Wilson are working in a more minor key than such essential entries as Chimpanzee and African Cats, but the artistry and relative magic of the series is still on full display.
Los Angeles Times
It won?t supplant ?March of the Penguins.? But DisneyNature has scored another kid-friendly natural world documentary about wild creatures we all connect with and that today?s kids will grow up wanting to protect from climate change and the other man-made.
New York Times
A beautiful but frustratingly shallow Disneynature documentary.
The Wrap
Its particular blend of attractive nature photography and narrative schmaltz are a pleasing way to spend one?s time