The important thing is that the truth is not touched by distorted something the previous film from the Disney Nature

Whose appalling documentary Grizzly Man has seen, knows that you wanted animals never can trust. It went well for years with conservationist and dierenknuffelaar Timothy Treadwell, but eventually he arrived and his girlfriend still in the stomach of a hungry bear in Alaska. Painfully became clear how serious his error of judgment to attribute human characteristics to indifferent grizzly ?? s. Disney also doing there in an attempt to Bears. Maybe that is not fair, but it gives this informative documentary or a nice accessible character.

The important thing is that the truth is not touched by distorted something the previous film from the Disney Nature label more than once been settled on. Chimpanzee talking in the voice-over material together as a coherent child's adventure, found that invented several points to be to keep the (young) audience enthralled. The monkey which was followed throughout the film, for example, five different chimps used, partly because the former already explained Bob during the rotation period.

Fortunately Bears does not feel so manipulated to. The documentary follows a year in the life of a mother bear and her young ones, without being further too much drama to add. Scholey and Fothergill directors starting in the den of a mother bear getting ready after a long hibernation to go into the world with her young. They follow the three on the long journey to find the need to pass to eat.

In the inhospitable Alaska ?? which produces beautiful images of nature ?? Meanwhile, of course, it is danger lurking. It is no avalanche (impressive helicopter shots) or treacherous cold water, then there is a false bear around or a sly wolf who haul in a tasty snack baby bear.

For clarity towards the young viewers all these animals get their own name. They are as it were characters in a movie story, in which the creators via a convenient mounting sometimes reality also thicken slightly. A scene of two fighting bears in a river is in slow motion and exciting music for instance stretched to a tense confrontation, but will have lasted in reality may not be more than a few seconds. And is similar to the way it worked to a climax with the quest for salmon. Images from the prying mother bear to cut them with fish that can not go far enough upstream swimming because of low water to reach the hungry bears basin. Until finally falling rain.

It's a bit of freedom that creators can afford. The essence of the story is enhanced with most to explain to viewers how the year will look into the life of a new mother bear. A bright-told story ?? also thanks to the diction of Thomas Acda ?? with beautiful images and of course the biggest asset: the two adorable bear cubs to discover the world.

Two years ago, former Flying Panther Diederik Ebbinge fell with his directorial debut directly in the taste. The tragicomedy Matterhorn, a lonely widower in a cramped village church, compared with work by Alex van Warmerdam and won the Rotterdam Film Festival the audience. Ebbinges force turned his infectious sense of absurdity, which notably resulted in the first half deliciously awkward scenes of the film between Ton Kas and Rene from ?? t Hof.

Ebbinge appeared in his first film immediately have to tackle their own eccentric style, but Kidnep there is unfortunately little to be seen. This children's film follows a well-trodden path that the director afwandelt so quickly that there is little room for unexpected situations, original jokes or compelling character sketches.

His second film as different from his debut, could be explained by the fact that the filmmaker this time not himself wrote the screenplay. But still owned by Karin van Holst Pellekaan ?? inter alia known from the Loenatik movies ?? would also like to expect something nicer.

After the first few minutes of Kidnep it is already clear which side will go on the story. On the one hand we have the compulsive gambler Fred, who has chased the money from a fellow criminal through. On the other hand, the decennial Bo, the son of a bunch of stinking wealthy workaholics who have hardly any attention for their child. Ebbinge takes no time to further develop the characters and immediately goes into action.

On behalf of his savvy friend Fred kidnaps the rich boy, waiting somewhere in the distant Swiss mountains on breaking ransom. Bo ?? s father bends immediately as a jackknife, but Fred thinks the police are on his tail, so he dares not time to stay longer in the same place. But he of course is precisely the criminal who wants his money back.

Ebbinge gains the ability to know what to build tension, but there seems to know it little advice. Confrontations hit completely dead in woody assembly and especially the band that runs overtime. The music will be thrown open so often that Kidnep is like a silent film from the beginning of the last century is spelled every moment of tension or emotion. Moreover, the plot often is too easy and rushed, which is particularly obvious in the denouement.

But fortunately, in this family film also about the relationship between kidnapper and victim, which is becoming better know and understand each other on their journey to the Netherlands. That might be little new under the sun, but it gets a certain charm thanks to the sympathetic game Martin Waardenberg and Teun Stockel.