Anyone who saw the gorgeously photographed BBC production Earth will agree that Arctic Tale is a poor relation. The footage is familiar - polar bear cubs snuffling out of their snow cave for the first time and tobogganing down the icy slopes; sleeping walruses flopped together in blissfully corpulent indolence - and the message of the fragility of the polar world is worth repeating. But the tendency to anthropomorphise rather than to inform and to be sentimental rather than scientific is facile and patronising even to the young audience at which this is clearly aimed. And Queen Latifah’s cute, chuckling narration made me want to light a patio heater.
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