User Reviews

This film is so beautifully shot. It has stunning footage of lions and other animals surviving in Africa. I highly recommend this film. It didn't really make use of the 3D. i was more annoyed having to wear the glasses then it was worth but none the less the film is wonderful. Its almost like a real life Lion King. Its also educational which is always important. We should never stop learning and this film taught me stuff i never knew.

Some of the action shots are actually very engaging and got a guttural reaction out of me. Watching the lioness's catch their pray was amazing. There is also one shot in the film that i cannot stop thinking about. It is an aerial shot that shows all the zebras and other animals returning to the water hole after it rains. AMAZING!

If you get a chance to see this film, i think you should.

Short, but genuinely entertaining. A wonderful experience in IMAX. It is amazingly interesting, and there are some fantastic shots of lions catching their pray, playing with their cubs and even fighting for their territory. I will make a special note of the stunning landscape shots that this movie was interspersed with, for they were equally as breathtaking as the lions! It is informative and stunning. They say a lions roar can be heard for 8 kms - so could the applause this film will garnish at IMAX cinema's around the world! Rarely (if ever) will you see this type of footage again!

A must-see for all nature-lovers...a should-see for everyone else!

I love all lion documentaries They have set up an elephant sanctuary in Kenya; many of the elephants are there because poachers killed their parents (the release of this film could be really bad timing for the CEO of godaddy.com and his recent elephant hunting video). She raises the elephants with a team of zookeepers and is the only person to successfully raise an elephant from infant to adulthood.

We then travel to Borneo to see Birute Galdikas' sanctuary for orphaned orangutans. They have lost their homes and their parents due to man's rapid expansion into their territory.

In both cases we experience a cuteness factor that would overwhelm just about anyone with the warm fuzzies. We see the orangutans doing cute human-like behaviors such as drinking milk from soda bottles, bathing themselves and riding on the back of motorcycles. We also see the elephants drinking lots of milk from bottles, playing soccer and adapting to their human surroundings.

In the end, the captured animals are released back into the wild where they belong. The journey back home is guided by humans, the same species that orphaned them in the first place.

Should you see this movie? Yes, but only see it in the IMAX 3D format for its vibrant images of the animals and for some wonderful shots of both the African and Borneo landscapes. It's a seemingly flat story with not too many ups and downs or much conflict. If it weren't for the 3D this could have been a straight-to-DVD release.

I do understand that Lickley wanted us to realize that there is a threat of extinction for both of these species. However, we are not given any action steps at the end. I would at least expect a website address to pop up telling the viewers that they can do more to help these orphans.