Zambezia - animation about birds (1 Viewer)

[jurek]

This 2012 full-length animation is of interest at least for birders who have children.

Film-wise it is rather good (at least not worse than The Ice Age) and has incredible colors and visuals. For birders, extremely entertaining are all the African birds which are the characters. Thieving Marabou Storks, bold young Peregrine, Prussian army general-like Bearded Vulture, panic-prone Guineafowl and mommy African Green Pigeon funnily capture "character" of the species.

The movie is from South Africa, and seemingly had limited advertising budget, so may take as long to find as the Fiery-necked Nightjar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambezia_(film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1488181/

 

[Swissboy]

.......animation is of interest at least for birders who have children.

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One of our friends knew about this movie, and he showed it to our group's youngsters (13 grandchildren in this case) in November on the occasion of a generations-overlapping get-together. The kids were from about 3 to 9 years old. While most of them watched the full length, some felt it was too scary and not for their age. So they came down on their own to us adults (their parents and grandparents). But of those who saw the full length, there was hardly one who was really fascinated. It was more this typical behavior that they could not pull themselves away from the showing, despite the fact that they did not really understand the story. So when asked later what they had seen, they were unable to really tell much.

Some of us adults viewed parts of the movie, and also felt it was too hectic. So I guess, the best audience would be somewhat older kids.