Why are pandas so darn cute? There must be a scientific explanation for their soft, cuddly power! With their chubby cheeks, snub noses, and toddling gaits, there’s nothing like a baby panda lying on its back sucking from a baby bottle to make a moviegoer say “Awww“. The kid-friendly IMAX film Pandas doesn’t answer that question but it delivers oodles of charm and has all the elements you would expect from this type of nature documentary: excellent production values, slick filmmaking and a generally wholesome approach. The Omnimax screen at The St. Louis Science Center, with its 360 degree perspective, is also a dazzling way to learn about a part of our planet most will never see otherwise. In the mountains of Sichuan China, American researcher Jacob Owens forms a bond with Qian Qian, a panda who is about to experience nature for the first time. He was born in captivity,...
- 4/5/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Pandas are God’s oversize Teddy bears, big and roly-poly in a so-cuddly-it’s-funny, designed-by-nature-for-Gund way. Their whole two-toned look — the snowy heads set off by adorable dabs of black — is raised to a unique-in-the-animal-kingdom level of huggability by the dark circles around their eyes, which evoke the sort of cartoon sadness that perhaps only a child’s love could heal. Pandas seem to be crying out for our affection, and for our protection too. And these days, they really need it. Squeezed out of their natural habitat (the overdevelopment of Chinese forests has pushed them further and further up into the mountains), crucially lacking in genetic diversity, pandas, as a species, are now struggling to find their biological place in the future.
It’s only natural that you go into a 3D IMAX movie called “Pandas” wanting to take a bath in fuzzy cuteness. Yet unlike last year’s “Born in China,...
It’s only natural that you go into a 3D IMAX movie called “Pandas” wanting to take a bath in fuzzy cuteness. Yet unlike last year’s “Born in China,...
- 4/2/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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