What makes it different from others?

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Morgan Freeman narrates this Luc Jacquet documentary about the emperor penguins. The monogamous couples walk to their traditional breeding grounds where they laid one egg each. The couple carefully balance the egg on one's feet to incubate it while the other goes back to the ocean to feed. They would transfer the egg as each partner goes back. It's a long dark winter as the sea freezes and the distance walked gets further and further. The mass of penguins huddle against the cold while their partners hunt for fish avoiding deadly seals. It's an epic of parenthood in nature. The story is touching although it may be too humanized. It doesn't as much eat or be eaten as most other nature film. For some reason, Freeman's narrations threw me off. It's never not Freeman and it's harder to get lost in the penguins. Overall, this is a good nature film.

Fascinating and beautifully made documentary narrated by actor Morgan Freeman shows the migratory journey of a colony of emperor penguins at the south pole who must make the 70-mile trek from their shores inland in order to get to the mating grounds, where they face even more hardships, as it is the mothers who must make the return journey to the water in order to find food(evading waiting predators), and the fathers who stay behind to take care of their egg by concealing them under a flap of furry skin to shield them from the blistering cold, while they face starvation themselves. Even after the eggs are hatched(not all will survive) they face threats from predators and continued freezing weather, as they live in the harshest climate on Earth... A real achievement in filmmaking will resonate most with animal lovers, but will still appeal to all in fine family entertainment.

Amazing and touching documentary about life in one of the harshest places on Earth. March of the Penguins tells the story on a colony of Emperor Penguins after 5 years living in the sea will march nearly 70 miles on frozen tundra to their breeding ground, far inland from the oceans where they thrive. It is there, that the cycle of life continues for them, as both female and male Penguins go through trials and tribulations with multiple arduous trips between the ocean and the breeding ground to give birth to the next generation. Director Luc Jacquet and his devoted crew from National Geographic Society endured a full year of extreme conditions in Antarctica to capture the life cycle of Emperor penguins on film, and their diligence is evident in every striking frame of this 80-minute documentary. It's beautiful shot, footage. March of the Penguins is a brilliant stirring and engaging nature film. Mad props to them, as they had to challenge of making the film when the weather was with windy 125 miles per hour temperatures between -50 and -60 °C. That's crazy cold! I had to put a coat on, just thinking about it. It has all the narrative excitement with the soothing voice of Oscar Winner, Morgan Freeman. If you are watching the French version of the film, the film has a first-person narrative as if the story is being told by the penguins themselves. The narration alternates between a female (Romane Bohringer) and a male (Charles Berling) narrator speaking the alternate roles of the female and male penguin, and as the chicks are born their narration is handled by child actor Jules Sitruk. I don't dislike this Anthropomorphism version, but I think hearing Morgan Freedom's voice make the film more mature. Having penguins have human voices make it seem like a nature film. I think the International dubbing as roles for the penguins is just don't have the ring for a documentary with a third-person narrative. Plus the international version have different titles that doesn't have the feel for the film such as the Philippine's version Penguin, Penguin, How Were You Made? Or India's Penguins: A Love Story. I will take 'March of the Penguins' title over these international titles that explain the harsh voyage the Penguins go through. Also I don't like the International's version of music choice of electronic too much. Its sounds too haunting rather than epic journey. Don't get me wrong, I like Émilie Simon, but songs like 'Frozen World' would sound better in a gritty fantasy movie. The music instrumental score by Alex Wurman is amazing. The only problem with his, is that the score track loops way too much in the film. I think the movie was very educating to people who wouldn't know anything about the species. Yes, it got a few things wrong like saying penguins are monogamous when in reality penguins are serial monogamy. The movie is great for both children and adults as it is Rated G, but still there are scenes of mating, violence, and sad moments of death due to Mother Nature's cold environment, and predators. So do warning. The movie was advertised as being so adorable and fun for the entire family, but that is simply not so. There were cute moments, and a couple of hoots, but for the most part it was just gloomy and depressing! Well, it didn't stop the movie from reaching the masses. The movie became so popular, that in 2007, a direct-to-DVD parody written and directed by Bob Saget called Farce of the Penguins was released. It is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and features other stars providing voice-overs for the penguins. I wouldn't go see that crap movie by Bob Saget. Overall: Penguins are beautiful, amazingly emotional creatures and this movie help you understand what they go through, when in order to reproduce, which is a lot of hardship and misery. Don't look at them as an anthropomorphic depiction of penguins, but as normal animals trying to survive. Give it a go, you won't regret it.

This was one of the most uninteresting, boring and worst movies (or documentaries) that i ever saw in the cinema. When i saw it in 3d on a big IMAX screen it bored the life out of me. I know that no one ever followed penguins around so closely and yes,i also think that penguins are cute, but this was one of my personal "Top Ten: The worst and the Boring"... every 2nd regular BBC documentary manages to be somewhat cool and enlightening about some aspect of animal life. This movie should be 15 Minutes long, so i would have survived it without having to write my first review in such a smashing fashion. Hate it! After 15 minutes the movie stopped to be interesting to me and was just plain torture.