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"Chimpanzee" presents sanitized jungle | Review

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"Chimpanzee" presents sanitized jungle | Review
Apr 21st 2012, 11:42

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This year's Disneynature's Earth Day documentary offering, Chimpanzee, is the latest in a rash of documentaries about the emotional lives of animals to emerge in the past year or so. Project Nim, One Lucky Elephant and The

By Kim Segal and John Zarrella, CNN More than a decade ago, more than 265 chimpanzees -- including Howard, pictured here in 2002 -- spent their days at a New Mexico medical research facility being poked, prodded and confined to small cages.

By Kim Segal and John Zarrella, CNN More than a decade ago, more than 265 chimpanzees -- including Howard, pictured here in 2002 -- spent their days at a New Mexico medical research facility being poked, prodded and confined to small cages.

The cinematography in this G-rated documentary, routinely breathtaking and often downright eye-popping, is sometimes magical in its intimacy.

Because apparently I needed another reason not to go to the zoo with Tim Allen, Disneynature has made CHIMPANZEE, a beautifully shot, strikingly candid, and obnoxiously narrated film detailing the early life of a wild baby chimp, and the

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