We can't wait to read a real time, real person...a meerkat lover review!!!!!

It will be nice to read a "non-generic" review, by non-generic I mean as you said a "meerkat lover" review.. to fully appreciate the quality of something in a review I think you have to be (or get) very involved in it.. you have to know the meerkats and what they are about and what they do to fully appreciate any movie about them. A regular everyday normal person could watch the movie and enjoy it but an enthusiast would get more out of it I think.
It's like TV shows (mm no exception) it's the 'fan base' that picks up on continuity errors etc because they follow it so closely.

Can't wait to see this!

Here is a blurb about it from UK's Daily Mail
news.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem...going-film-star.html
***some spoilers in the article***
Currently playing in theaters in UK.

Hugs & Nuzzles
Jerseykat

Ouch won't let me edit my own post! How rude LOL.

Anyway here is review from London Times.
http://entertainment.timesonli...s/article6740573.ece

JerseyKat, thanks for sending the link to the UK Daily Mail review of The MEERKATS. This is a wonderful story - spoilers and all - that none of us should miss! Kolo has stolen my heart - and now I want to know 'the rest of the story,' but I'm sure we'll never get a sequel, but we can write our own ending! m.j.

Thanks jerseykat...but "rodents" of choice....Sigh....our poor babies...!!!

From a friend last year...a meerkat lover.

Hi dear burrow mates,
I´m just coming from the preview premiere of the BBC Meerkat Movie, no matter of an one hour´s drive from Frankfurt back home (hubby was the chauffeur) things haven´t settled down and I´m still fully beside myself. I so love love love it.

And I can´t find enough superlatives for the great excitement, not caused by my language issues but because the movie is absolutely SPECTACULAR.

Like announced in the trailer you really can see scenes you´ve never seen before, and the expected so loved familiar things haven´t been missing too.

The story is about the little pup Kolo and his way growing up at his brother´s side, going through all the well known dangers of the Kalahari, till he is old enough to step into his brother´s foot prints.

He met snakes, eagles, a honey badger and even lions. (A big black maned male lion wanted to dig him out of his bolthole)

The pictures and the music (wonderful African voices) are breathtaking and the burrow cam scenes - outstanding!!!

They used infrared cams and the quality was amazing and very sharp and detailed. Loads of cuddling, grooming and nuzzling below ground, new born pups, simply too cute for words!

There was a spectacular part when a cape cobra was hunting the pups along the burrow system and they came to the end of the tunnel at a place with no more escape, oh my, they have standing there with the snake in front focussing them and you should have seen their faces, I was dying, and suddenly the brother came and chased the cape cobra (biting her) away, this all below ground - not staged.

Although I was lucky enough to get told which scenes were staged I´ve got not told what was not staged, for example the loss of Kolo´s brother, predated by an eagle. This was at the border of the bearable, because one must see the poorest kat being grabbed, carried away and being fed to the eagle babies - in close ups. Gulp!!!!!!! (And tons of Kleenex…)

But all in all the movie was filled with beautiful and breathtaking scenes and the Kleenex was needed only a very few times for someone who is not crying without special reasons, but just by the great excitement seeing the wee ones in Godzilla size.

Most spectacular has been the loads of pup-scenes, I´ve never seen before so many amazing and long close ups of pups (a litter of 6 and no one was lost during the movie). They were playing, cuddling and hugging in the sweetest ways. Pups pups pups, the cutest overload ever!!!

They do not only personalize the kats (what is very much to my liking), they have given Kolo a voice too, in a kind of comments like speaking his thoughts. This was so very very sweet and adorable, and I frankly admit that nothing is cuter than the feature of a loudly thinking meerkat.

Okay, I will go and see it again (still no clue how often)

Believe me, it is a "must have seen", absolutely Awwww-factor!

News from ~Genrefinity~:

"Out here in Los Angeles it's no secret that The Weinstein Company is in trouble, in fact, nearly everyone I know was watching to see how both The Inglorius Basterds and Halloween II would perform, because a flop could have easily meant the demise of an empire. While the flop of the Tarantino/Rodriguez project Grindhouse started the ball rolling downhill, it's sounding more and more like there's nothing that can stop it at this point. A new article over at Deadline Hollywood reports that the company has begun firing more staff, a surefire sign that things are not well. And while Basterds was a success, Universal shares in the profits. The Road premieres in Toronto, and from the movie I saw, they are in some serious, serious trouble."

This is similar to what I am reading in all business news reports. Sorry to see another independent film company go if indeed it does not survive...but times are tough...even in the entertainment world...and jobs are jobs...sorry that more are lost.

All they had to do was give The Meerkats a release in the USA, but to be quite honest, I suspect this is why they could not afford to do so.

My dvd The Meerkats arrived Friday. I have played it 3times already. I have Had a crush on Paul Newman since I was a young girl and saw him in The Long Hot Summer. The Meerkats is pretty good and lots of pups,but I didn't feel connection like Meerkat Manor.

Sorry I mean I didn't feel the connection.

I received mine also, but I haven't watched it yet. If this were a Meerkat Manor DVD, I would have played it the same day it arrived. I love meers and pups, but I understand where you are coming from, maybe tomorrow.

MM is the most popular meerkat show right now.And I got MM season 1,The best of season 2,And MM The Story Begans. .



~ Zorro_Pal ~

So many failing businesses only have themselves to blame for paying millions to one actor to make a film or one CEO to run a company, etc., it's obscene. But on down the line, there are so many 'rank and file' actors and other employees who are now out of work, it's just so sad.
I also ordered The Meerkats and it's supposed to be delivered this week, so I know I'll enjoy it and I know I'll love little Kolo, but oh how I wish we could get MM to either start filming again or sell off its rights, or someone to publish an update; the LifeHistory Reports just aren't enough.
I simply cannot believe that people - anyone - would like to see Monsters Inside Me over any other program; geez.
Ah, sad, sad, sad -m.j.

I finally got time to watch this production, and it was enjoyable, the storyline was good, and the aerial photography was great - esp. when showing a Martial Eagle swooping down. I feel bad for saying this, but altho I'm a big fan of Paul Newman, you can tell that he was an old man when he narrated the story - not just his age, but he was ill. I found myself trying to superimpose Sean Astin's voice over his.
I'll be happy to share my DVD with y'all; catch me on FaceBook.
m.j.

I have the DVD!
Seriously people, "The Meerkats" is the BEST meerkat movie ever! Nothing can compare! I'd recommend it to every meerkat-lover!!

Kolo is such a cutie<333
But I'm not giving anything away
Have 2 videos about the movie, telling the story of Kolo. The scenes they get are amazing! Following meerkats below ground, the slow-down fighting scenes, the eagle catching the cobra! ... It's just breath-taking

I too have the DVD. I have not watched it as yet. And I do not know why. I did read that Paul Newman's voice was just right as the wise Elder narrator, but I am sorry that you can hear he is ill. I wonder if we did not know, would our perception still be the same? One more reason for me not to watch...

The Meerkats are my ~Someday~...

cCatz, I'm sorry I wrote about Paul Newman, he had such presence with his beautiful eyes and cocky grin. I also wonder that if I didn't know he was ill, would I feel the same about his voice; I just don't know, it seemed dull to me. I had the DVD for a month before I watched it, I don't know why either.
As MeerkatGal said, some of the scenes were breath-taking. Altho I don't like snakes, these cobras that we see in the Kahalari are fascinating - their little beady eyes staring at you; and the camera following it into the burrow, literally chasing the Kats. It was good photography. Not to be missed.
m.j.

I just got the DVD in this week. I don't have to work this weekend so I'm going to watch it tomorrow.... can't wait