Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has announced the release of two documentaries for Blu-ray release within its Disneynature label: Oceansand The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos. Both will be available as Blu-ray/DVD combo packs on October 19. For every purchase of Oceans during release week, Disneynature will make a contribution to help protect coral reefs.
Oceans
Oceans is directed by Jacques Perrin (Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, Features for Winged Migration in 2003) and Jacques Cluzaud (Winged Migration, Les ailes de la nature), who have set out to capture the full expanse of these waters that have played such a crucial and constant role in the history and sustenance of man. It is narrated by Pierce Brosnan, and was released in US theaters in April.
Special features include:
Living Menus - an Interactive Experience (BD-exclusive)
Filmmaker annotations (BD-exclusive)
Music video: "Make a Wave", Disney's Friends for Change with Demi Levato and Joe Jonas
Disney & Nature - Preserving the World We Share
Deeper in the Ocean - Select Videos from Living Menus and Filmmaker Annotations
The Crimson Wing
The Crimson Wing is directed by Matthew Aeberhard and Leander Ward. It takes viewers to the isolated shores of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania for a birds-eye view of the mysterious lives of flamingos.
Special features include:
Filmmaker annotations (BD-exclusive)
Lake Natron Diaries - Behind the Crimson Wing
Living Planet - Explore Earth as an Interactive Experience (BD-exclusive)
no Riff, all the footage that was shot and culled was specifically made for 'Oceans' - as for this movie, I'm not buying the US edition since the intertnational releases of the film were longer and featured different narration.
Maybe it's because I had just motored through Planet Earth and Life but I found Oceans supremely boring and uneventful. The worst offense in Oceans was that it had nothing linking the series of events together. They would show a pod of whales swimming and talk about them and then show some radom fish and say "X fish swims in circles" before moving to a different ocean dweller. Even at 80 some minutes it feels too long. With Oceans and Earth failing to impress me, I have low expectations for next year's Earth Day delivery - African Cats.
