Penguins
Written by David Fowler
Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Jeff Wilson
Starring Ed Helms
Running time: 1 hour and 16 minutes
MPAA rating: G
by Hunter Bush
Disneynature's latest doc Penguins is 70+ minutes of extremely beautiful nature footage strung together by a decently entertaining narrative about five-year old Adélie penguin Steve (voiced by Ed Helms who also narrates) and his attempt to start his own penguin family and then keep that family safe and well-fed. I mean, yeah, it's pretty basic animal doc stuff here but, for what it's worth, the Disneynature crew do a pretty solid job all in about the run time of an average Doctor Who episode.
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