In the realm of cutesy nature documentaries, African Cats is a pretty good one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2023

Like some Kurosawa-style tale of ancient feudal warlords battling for power and land (or even a modern, power-hungry gangster flick).

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 30, 2020

The most likely of Disneynature's three films to actually enthrall and captivate younger children.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 1, 2020

The vistas of the African safari are stunning.

| Original Score: B | Apr 26, 2019

Add a cool narration by the incomparable Samuel L. Jackson, though, and you have something really special.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2019

African Cats' simplistic view of the African outback is far more dramatic and emotionally engaging than it is education.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2019

It's just a shame you can't turn the voiceover off and tone down some of the orchestral accompaniment - the African Cats footage itself is dramatic enough alone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Without the sweeping aerial shots and the rest of the highly impressive camerawork, the documentary doesn't add up to more than standard, harmless wilderness fare for the kiddos.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 29, 2018

the film is relatively bloodless and appropriate for all ages

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2013

[G]orgeously photographed, astonishingly intimate... We have never seen lions and cheetahs like this before; you won't believe it can have been possible for cameras to get so close without disturbing the animals they're watching...

| May 9, 2012

The clarity of the footage is often breathtaking; watching the mother cheetah setting off on a run will have your own heart pounding in expectation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2012

It's Kiplingesque nursery ethology, and one distrusts the editing.

| Apr 28, 2012

A great story, shot throughout with infinite patience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2012

It is beautifully shot - the super slo-mo scenes of Sita running are amazing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2012

Some nice moments here, but this is a film that looks like a kids' 온라인카지노추천 featurette from an earlier age.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 26, 2012

Of course the photography is second to none - no sense of hidden cameras here, more a feeling of cranes and on-set catering.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2012

An attempt the dramatise the animal world which just feels cheap and unworkable. A drag.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 26, 2012

Providing a feast of kills, confrontations and capering cubs while keeping on-screen gore to a minimum, nature lovers of all ages will get their fill.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2012

Narrated by Patrick Stewart, this is beautifully shot if a tad toothless. Nothing to upset tots.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2012

The wildlife is beautifully photographed, and the film is stentorianally narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2012