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Review From the Front Row

http://www.fromthefrontrow.net/2011/06/review-turtle-incredible-journey.html

Turtle: The Incredible Journey is certainly not the first time the story of the sea turtle has been told, and it probably won't be the last. Anyone who has ever watched the National Geographic channel is familiar with its perilous migration. But never has it been told quite as memorably, or as beautifully, as this.

One wonders, however, just how much of this "documentary" was staged for cameras. Scenes in which the turtle encounters a massive freighter and a group of fishermen who catch and then release her are particularly suspicious, not to mention the sheer implausibility that this is the same little loggerhead turtle over the course of the entire film, which supposedly spans 21 years.

But to focus on shortcuts made for the sake of creating a compelling narrative is missing the point. The film assembled here is a stunning portrait of one of the natural world's greatest migrations….

I hope the “staging” aspect doesn’t become a controversy. The NY Times reviewer spent most of the review on that subject. (NY Times review link posted by LarryW)
http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/movies/turtle-the-incredible-journey-a-loggerhead-epic-review.html

I'm quite surprised SeaWorld didn't want get out in front of this a little better. They did make it clear in the initial PR that the crew had followed numerous turtles around, but that, of course, got lost in the shuffle. In the Tavis Smiley interview Miranda Richardson certainly made it sound like it was one turtle.

It probably won’t - and shouldn't - stop anyone from going to see it, but the subterfuge will probably rub a lot of people the wrong way.