
To illustrate the distinction even further, everytime "Scar" is shown intervening, the music intensifies, leaving the viewer with a dark, ominous throbbing. But, where it goes wrong is when Disney, again, creates the dichotomy of "good" chimps versus "bad" chimps. Now, in premise, the humanized chimps seem like a reasonable means to entertain and tell a story to, the kids. But, if the jarringly tenuous and at times, mawkish narration or even the desperate recycling of Disney-movie-orphan-themes won't bother one from heading to the theater with the kids, the pathetic anthropomorphisms-with names of the likes of "Oscar," and even "Scar"-might be enough to discourage viewers. In other words, it feels overly contrived, thus managing to demean the marvelous footage in sight some Bose headphones to block the sound, just might do the trick. Notwithstanding the brilliant cinematography-gracefully capturing the Ivory Coast's Tai Forest-as well as the real-time footage of the simians, themselves, "Chimpanzee" is a ultra-light-for-kids eco-doc that, although is believed to be real, and is real, doesn't quite feel real it's Notwithstanding the brilliant cinematography-gracefully capturing the Ivory Coast's Tai Forest-as well as the real-time footage of the simians, themselves, "Chimpanzee" is a ultra-light-for-kids eco-doc that, although is believed to be real, and is real, doesn't quite feel real it's dramatic scenery is accompanied with an even lower suspension of belief voice narration-by Tim Allen-which although corny, is nothing compared to the Disney script that attempts to loosely link the plot of "The Lion King" to a lecture on primatology.
