Some spectacular aerial-view scenery and a few outstanding close shots. Poor writing and direction. Not well tied together; dangling conclusions in several places. The sequence of following the water pipes was way, way, way too long and should have been run at high speed. Insufficient meaty info, too much footage of city streets and planes and stuff, waste of tons of footage on very few things, doesn't convey the point very well, talks down to its audience. I would have cut this down to about 20 minutes and rewritten and redirected the whole narrative. Should have had shorter clips of many, many more things, and quite a lot more explanation. Annoyingly vague. Very, very, very slow. No sense of immediacy or perspective. Doesn't grab the viewer's attention and convey the urgent need for all of us to do something about disappearing plant and animal life. Comes across as a somewhat entertaining "lite" story. The tone of the narration was that of a fairytale. Very few facts. Disappointingly, the well-timed clips appeared at the end during the credits. I wish the narrative had pulled this together.Doesn't come close to the usual National Geographic standards about similar topics. Suitable as an introduction to ecology for very small children.

Agree, not enough about nature. Very limited view of nature. The title should read something else like frogs and biological diversity.

I just skimmed through it for the good footage. The film makers were too intent on showing pictures of themselves all the time. Overall, there is about 7 minutes of
good nature photography out of the 40 min.

It's a difficult topic to tackle in 40min., as it's just so vast a subject and impossible to cover all the interconnectedness of life. The movie did a good job of making its basic point, maybe spending more time focusing on landscapes and diversity of species; but the visuals were so interesting and breathtaking. It would be neat if they did follow-ups to show the interconnectedness in other unexplored or rarely explored parts of the world. I would like it too if they analyzed big city living to show how that kind of life is even more connected to nature, live via pollution, product consumption, etc; maybe focus more on the dark side of human dominance?I realized while watching the film is that all the animals, plants, and insects have something keeping them in check besides climate; they all have some other creature preying upon it...and humankind is the exclusion to this. I suppose that it's us keeping ourselves in check, no matter how good or bad, or sinister we are at doing this.

A little history, a dash of poetic license, one of my favorite voices for narration, all-in-all a wonderful way to spend forty minutes. I think it's well worth checking out. It successfully shows the interconnectivity of species, the "web of life". Informational for kids and some adults, while being entertaining for all.