Customer Rating:      Summary: Best X-mas gift in 35 years! Comment: My husband is a huge nature documentary afficionado. Last Christmas I got him the "Planet Earth" DVD set which he loved. This year I got him "Blue Planet" set which he thought was even better. We've watched it together and found never a dull momment, fascinating shots of deep sea creatures or coral spawning. Attenborough is a superb narrator and the special features are well worth a look. Only caveat is that the last DVD in the set is just a hodge podge of other, inferior, nature documentaties.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Blue Planet Comment: Excellent, fresh, never before seen footage of some of the most amazing places underwater! Great addition to the Planet Earth collection.
Customer Rating:      Summary: One of the top BBC nature productions Comment: This is a sensational documentary of life in the sea. Certainly the best I've seen in a long time. Well organized and incredible photography.
I use parts of it in a class on oceanography to demonstrate life in the ocean in a way that is impossible to describe in a lecture.
Spellbinding and good for all ages.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Blue Planet..Awesome and uplifting Comment: I hesitated for a long time before making this purchase...now I know I should have bought this instead of something else. I can ignore the 'facts' about the age of the corals etc...this documentary is truly inspiring, uplifting and eye-opening. Sea creatures I never thought possible, amusing mating styles, and much more...and the narrator is excellent. Relaxing end of day edutainment for me...I'll be watching these over and over again. Thanks BBC.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Beautiful but preachy Comment: The potential of this beautifully filmed show is seriously tarnished by the preachy 'humans suck' message. I get enough of this in my daily life. I'd rather not have it fed to me in every single movie, TV show, etc... that I watch. I watch these things to get away from reality for a few minutes...
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