The Flood

A huge improvement on the quality of National Geographic's camera work. A very conventional Okavango documentary and no new ground broken. It is let down by Angela Basset's embarrassingly poor script and dreadful delivery. Her breathy monotone performance is saturated with saccharine artificial drama. A stereotypical bed time story delivery that completely lets down the otherwise food production. National Geographic would do well to find a narrator with true understanding and passion for the subject matter - not something that can be synthesised by a rather ordinary actress.

Such an amazing movie. The visuals are absolutely STUNNING but what really did it for me was the voice over. Her voice is so relaxing! We love our black queen Angela Basset!

This documentary brings you up close and personal with the wide variety of animals that spread throughout the Okavango River located in South Africa. It is no question that biodiversity is crucial through the grasslands of Okavango and the documentary does a great job providing al the details of how the hundreds of species whom which reside on this land, fight to survive and contribute to the cycle of life. Discussing how simply the movement of hippos contributes to the underwater life to how monkeys pollinate flowers to how when the "the flood" comes, it changes the life of all the animals and how they must survive there. Then once the water has dried up yet again, the animals must re-adjust and adapt to the driest of lands. Angela Basset does a great job narrating the lives of these beautiful creatures on earth.

No. Angela Bassett is not 'a black queen.' She's an absolutely atrocious narrator and should stay clear away from this job as an altruistic endeavor - i.e., that she should ruin another, otherwise, decent production with her extremely affected breathy obnoxious voice. What she adds to the story is trite at best and annoying, most always. I really like her as an actress. Honestly. But, she is an absolutely horrific narrator...one of the worst that I've ever heard in my entire six-decade life....and if you're reading this review, Angela Bassett, STAY AWAY from narrating. Please.

Marvelous footage. I do have to agree with some of the other reviewers that the narrator didn't do the script justice, which is a pity because Angela Bassett most certainly has "the funk", but she seemingly could not figure out how to deliver the affect that such a lovely documentary deserves.

The first few minutes of the film were refreshing as the viewer is drawn in and the engine is gathering steam, and I was able to make it through the first of the two part series, but I had to give up at the scene of the two lion siblings as they stand at the edge of the water.

The narrator just wasn't able to figure out if she was delivering to an adult audience or a juvenile one, and she tried too hard and fell too short.