Perri

Filled with mega cute images, with even more mega cute pets, and the fight for food, safety, survival, all beautiful, although sad in some aspects, the various moms in the movie, each defending their puppies in their own way...

This was gripping. Always wanted to watch a film about a squirrel. Can finally tick that one off! Disney's "true life fantasy" was quite effective in its portrayal of the life of Perri and her lover, Porro. After all, who doesn't create their own stories and narratives when watching wildlife documentaries?

It has a bit of everything:

• Squirrel romance and dodgy 'home' renos
• Beaver chewing down a tree with a squirrel in it
• Raccoons and skunks brawling
• A skunk joining a raccoon family by mistake
• The cosiest squirrel den ever
• A psychedelic dream sequence
• A magpie poking a squirrel on the ass
• Raccoons fishing
• "The face of death"

It definitely showcases the cycle of life and was a bit sad in parts. There's certainly a lot of bad things out to get you in life and Perri doesn't shy away from it. It also features a wildfire sequence sure to trigger fellow Australians after we lost 1 billion animals to our bushfire crisis earlier in 2020.

Ultimately, I really liked this and found myself smiling and laughing throughout. Go Perri!

I honestly was about to turn this one off when I looked over and my cat was SUPER into it. And who am I to argue with his expertise?

Our cat, who never pays any attention to the television, watched this film with great interest for about the first hour! He even moved to sit right in front of the TV. It dragged a bit near the end, but was worth watching.

There are a lot of very interesting nature shots in this movie, some quite beautiful. It is not an animated movie, like Bambi, and does not approach the truly remarkable beauty of that movie. But there's a lot to enjoy here, if you ignore the one musical number about couples, which is not at the level of the rest of the movie.

I would say that this might not be appropriate for small children, but then, as I still remember almost 60 years later, seeing Bambi was very frightening for little children as well. There are a LOT of scenes of animals hunting other animals, and sometimes they catch them. There is no focus on limbs being ripped off corpses or anything gruesome like that, of course, but you do see wildcats carrying off rabbits, etc. If you feel this would unduly upset your child, you might want to have a talk about nature's ways before letting your child see it.