Disneynature: African Cats (Two-Disc Blu-ray / DVD Combo in Bly-ray Packaging) Reviews

In the 1950s, Walt Disney produced a series of documentary short subjects and features called True-Life Adventures that won a passel of Oscars and were among the finest nature documentaries ever made to that time. Two of those dealt specifically with feline cultures in Africa: The African Lion  and Jungle Cat. Disney’s new nature documentary branch of its company has now presented a modern update to those classic films, African Cats. In the new film, however, Disney is harking back to another of its previous True-Life Adventure films, Perri, in which authentic nature footage is used to fashion a story with fictional character names attached to the animal participants. It worked well then, and it works well in African Cats, too, as the beautiful scenery and the intensity of life and death struggles on African savannas make for a compelling if somewhat fictionalized hybrid of a documentary.

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