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Runtime: 81 min
Official Site: http://nature.disney.com/monkey-kingdom
Production:
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Mark Linfield, Alastair Fothergill
Stars: Xavier Atkins, Mark Lewis Jones, Tom Hardy
Monkey Kingdom (2015) Critic Review: A nature documentary that follows a newborn monkey and its mother as they struggle to survive within the competitive social hierarchy of the Temple Troop, a dynamic group of monkeys who ...
IMDB : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3660770
Reviews By Critic
John Wirt | Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Monkey Kingdom moves so smoothly and quickly that the filmmakers'
time-consuming dedication and labor-intense toil stays, as it should be,
invisible.
Scott Renshaw | Salt Lake City Weekly
It might be tempting to roll your eyes at the Disney-ness of it all.
Then again, maybe it's that Disney-ness that keeps you watching all the
way to that happy ending in the first place.
Bilge Ebiri | New York Magazine/Vulture
This may be an unabashed, Disneyfied version of nature. But it's also fun, touching, and expertly assembled.
Robin Clifford | Reeling Reviews
The filmmakers bring us to places and creatures we would never see otherwise, so we get education along with the entertainment
Sandie Angulo Chen | Common Sense Media
Sam Woolf | We Got This Covered
You'll wish the narrative could be as au naturel as the photography,
but Monkey Kingdom makes for pleasantly diverting eco-tainment.
Laura Clifford | Reeling Reviews
While previous entries in this series have been over-anthropomorphized,
defanged and declawed, Mark Linfield & Alastair Fothergill's
("Earth," "Chimpanzee") latest is a winner with an organically spun
story
Jeanne Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan
This latest production showcases lavish, breathtaking cinematography,
in addition to heartwarming stories about the inhabitants of these
gorgeous lands.
David Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan
It's a wondrous way for the whole family to spend 81 minutes. And most
importantly, part of your ticket purchase during opening week goes to
protecting this endangered species.
Mike Scott | Times-Picayune
It pretty closely follows the Disneynature formula, so don't expect
anything groundbreaking. You can, however, expect a sweet and entirely
enjoyable all-ages delight.
Monkey Kingdom Movie Review By MDBReviews
The eighth section in Disney's eco-minded Disneynature arrangement, "Monkey Kingdom" may well be its cheekiest, most clever and most simply enthralling. Following a story of prohibited affection and strict social moving in the midst of a macaque family in Sri Lanka, this Mark Linfield-coordinated docu-fiction contains ordinarily best retire nature photography, an uncannily relatable cast of primate characters, and a human account sufficiently complex that one can't resist the opportunity to think about the amount it was effectively kneaded for most extreme effect. This recent matter shouldn't trouble the film's young target viewers excessively, notwithstanding, and the film should discover a grateful family crowd.
Throughout the Disneynature films, there’s an often palpable tension between the pitilessly Darwinian natural world so evocatively captured by series producer and co-director Alastair Fothergill, and the Disney-friendly happily-ever-after storylines that are superimposed upon it. At least in the early going, “Monkey Kingdom” seems willing to address the more problematic issues in simian society head-on, creating its drama through the highly developed, much-studied class system of its subjects.
Set in the midst of some striking relinquished sanctuaries that have been partly subsumed into the wilderness, the film presents an entirely stratified gathering of toque macaques. At the top, alpha male Raja and his trio of favored females, named the Sisters (probably underhanded), relax around on the most elevated branches and get first dibs on the best cooking the wilderness brings to the table. At the base, our champion Maya and her kindred lower-colleagues rummage for whatever scraps they can discover, while making a point to stay off the beaten path of their social betters.
This Cinderella story gets an unusual wrinkle when a roving male named Kumar - introduced as “one hunky monkey,” a line that only works thanks to Tina Fey’s voiceover - meets Maya, knocks her up, and then is chased away by Raja. Now tasked with feeding her baby as well, Maya is forced to become ever more resourceful to find food, at one point diving into a pond while a 7-foot monitor lizard lingers nearby, and even staging a ninja-like raid on a human child’s birthday party.
At the point when the tribe is driven out of their sweet burrows by an opponent gathering of monkeys, they head into a close-by town where, the film sets, the onetime privileged are rendered defenseless from all their spoiling, while the primate proles show them how to make due by their minds in the urban wilderness. It's an interestingly Marxist turn originating from an organization like Disney, keeping in mind one is never 100% beyond any doubt that these truly are the same monkeys as in the recent past, the scenes of macaques shrewdly shoplifting from road business sector slows down, endeavoring to ride a stray canine, and making a makeshift home of a high as can be mobile phone tower are irrefutably silly.
If “Monkey Kingdom” ranks as the most consistently diverting of the Disneynature series, it’s largely due to the ceaselessly dynamic behavior of the little critters on display — constantly swinging from vines, falling, wrestling and slapping each other, they’re natural born entertainers, and their displays of affection and grief are eerily humanlike. Linfield and Fothergill offer footage that can be jaw-dropping in its detail and intimacy; the time-lapse photography of the changing landscape is phenomenal, and one sequence where the jungle comes alive with thousands of winged termites in flight is among the most distinctive the series has captured.
Music from Harry Gregson-Williams suits the film's flow well, and the utilization of the signature melody from "The Monkees" is sufficiently idiotic to be smart.
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