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Why so much hype?

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

This is a nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough. For that reason alone, it deserves a 10, as his film (such as "Earth") are simply the best made, most interesting and most innovative you can find...period. Here in "Elephants: Spy in the Herd", filmmakers use a 'dung-cam' to surreptitiously record the actions of herds of elephants for a year. What is a dung-cam? They are cameras hidden in what appear to be innocuous piles of elephant droppings! The cameras varied and were stationary, mobile as well as floating!! The rather near- sighted elephants GENERALLY didn't notice them and they got lots of footage that you'd have a devil of a time getting otherwise! So be prepared to see elephants fighting (I actually witnessed this myself in South Africa a year ago!), lots and lots of adorable babies as well as some surprising behaviors, such as elephants appearing to grieve, showing curiosity as well as playing! A wonderful and extremely well made nature film that nature-lovers really must see.By the way, if you like this type of film, also try to see BBC's "Penguins: Spy in the Huddle" in which fake penguins with hidden cameras were used to infiltrate the flocks! Amazing!!