One A Day #4: True Nature's Child

To be totally honest with you guys, I didn't have a review ready for you today until I saw the IMAX feature, Born To Be Wild.
Narrated by Morgan Freeman (AKA God, AKA the guy who narrates the "Olympics are no place for morons...dumbass!" segments on The Tonight Show), Wild shares the stories of two families--one a group of orphaned orangutans on the island of Borneo, the other a herd of orphaned elephants in Kenya--and the humans who have dedicated their lives to preparing these young animals for a return to the wild.
The humans take a backseat for most of the show, letting the animal antics speak volumes for themselves.
Orangutans double-fist their milk bottles, spilling most of the milk on themselves and not really caring. Elephant herds have hazing rituals for the "new guy," covering him with Kenya's beautiful red soil and parading him through a nearby watering hole. So much of what these two species of animals do is so incredibly human that we can't help laughing at ourselves by proxy or oohing and aahing at the sweet and tender moments.
The only thing I can find wrong with this movie is that at 41 minutes long, it was too short to be called either long or a movie. As the credits rolled, I wanted to see more. Hopefully the Tim Allen-narrated Chimpanzees will add to my enjoyment and make up for my unfulfillment issues when it comes out on DVD later this year.
But it's still worth an
A-

Now that I've covered the circle of life, wait smart and stay tuned for the next issue of One A Day, as I look down on one of the most pointless Oscar-nominated films I have ever seen: The Tree of Life.

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