Critic Reviews

The photography is sweepingly gorgeous--this must be the best of all possible planets. [18 Apr 2011, p.46]

Human Planet can't match the sweeping grandeur of the nature documentaries that preceded it under the same auspices, "Planet Earth" and "Life." But to paraphrase what a kindly farmer once said to his sheepherding pig, It'll do.

Another Discovery/BBC beauty, but short on answering obvious questions.

Sure, it all makes for pretty filmmaking, but isn't not having to risk your life for a simple meal one of the benefits of civilization? There's something unsettling about glorifying subsistence living for the sake of our high-definition televisions.