Meerkat Manor - Season 1
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Actor: Bill Nighy, Flower the Meerkat, Mozart the Meerkat, Youssarian the Meerkat, Zaphod the MeerkatBrand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
Writer: Caroline Hawkins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 273 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Animal Planet
Movie Reviews of Meerkat Manor - Season 1
Movie Review: Survivor Drama on the Kalahari
Summary: 5 Stars
[Spoiler Alert!]
Forget "Survivor" and "The Amazing Race." "Meerkat Manor" is the best reality/survivor show ever made. If you missed the beginning, here come the first 13 episodes of the Whiskers family in a two-disc set. These fierce little critters have been called the Sopranos of the Kalahari. But they're not. They're better. What's more, these episodes can be watched by the entire family.
Matriarch Flower is the boss, protecting her family from invading meerkat tribes, such as the Lazuli, making sure the home (burrow) is fit and that all are well fed. Flower, whose recent demise left fans grieving, will be the subject of a 2008 theatrical release, "Queen of the Meerkats." It can't come too soon.
The Animal Planet hit is the result of a 10 year study by Cambridge University. Students mix into the footage from time to time, taking notes. During these moments, you realize just how small meerkats are. Adults are about a foot long, pups only a few inches, but when confronting an enemy, these little guys are bigger than life.
Sean Astin's flawless narration moves each episode along from cliffhanger to cliffhanger. The clear Season One favorite is Flower's son, Shakespeare. Whether he's taking a double snake bite for the clan, mentoring a little brother, or squaring off against Big Cy of the Lazuli to protect meerkat pups, he is his mother's son.
Still, there are plenty of personalities to enjoy, including Shakespeare's loving sister, Mozart, and their independent sibling, Tosca, Flower's main squeeze, Zaphod, his nutcase brother, Yousarian, and Carlos, the Don Juan of the Kalahari. Those who have followed the Whiskers through Season Three, can flash back to baby Mitch, who started out as a spoiled mama's-boy bully. And for those who thought Flower was ruthless, we now have Punk, the new queen of the Zappas and her alpha guy, Houdini. Never dull and never contrived, they all have stories to tell.
- Kay Reynolds, The Virginian-Pilot
Summary of Meerkat Manor - Season 1
Triumph and mishap comedy and tragedy - everything a good story needs but this one is different it stars a group of wild meerkats in South Africa. This ground-breaking thirteen part series records the daily lives of a group of meerkats known as "The Whiskers". Using state of the art camera technology above and below ground and by tracking the group's movements 24 hours a day the series paints a dramatic picture of a year in their highly complex and social lives. From viscous fights with rival gangs to infighting within the group snake attacks births of two dozen pups and tragic deaths "Meerkat Manor" includes animal behavior never recorded before. With characters that would be more at home in a real life soap opera their entangled lives make for addictive viewing. MEERKAT MANOR is All My Children meets Wild Kingdom. The show is narrated by Sean Astin of "Lord of the Rings" and"24."System Requirements:Run Time: 273 minutes Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 796019806794 Manufacturer No: 80679Similar DVD Movies
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