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Manufacturer: First Run Features
Starring: Tip Byrne, H.W. Kerr, Glen Ingram, Bill Freeland, E.S. Edgerton
Directed By: Mark Lewis
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302212815
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302212812
Label: First Run Features
Manufacturer: First Run Features
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: First Run Features
Release Date: 1999-04-13
Running Time: 47
Studio: First Run Features
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Summary: I need to move to Australia
Comment: This is the perhaps the best movie I have every seen. It is informative and yet it somehow will make the viewer laugh throughout. I saw it in a class and had to come home and buy it. All I can say now is that I want some Australian friends.
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Summary: Cane Toads - campy but informative
Comment: Somebody else said it was Monty Python meets Marlin Perkins. Throw in a little of "The Far Side", and you've got it. A decent documentary. It *does* demonstrate invasive species in action and highlights the perils of introducing animals or plants we don't understand into new envirmmonents.
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Summary: Environmentally sound!
Comment: This movie, although a cross between Monty Python and National Geographic, is a must for EVERY environmental student. I show this to my high school environmental classes every year to demonstrate how intoduced invasive species can decimate an ecosystem.
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Summary: Funny, informative, and ridiculous
Comment: I saw this on T.V. a few weeks ago really late at night. I really just wanna go to Australia with my pellet gun and waste these things after watching this. I'm not gonna go into detail and spoil the funny parts, but it's definitely worth the hour or so it takes to watch. Also through some research I've found that Cane Toads- An Unnatural History is completely factual despite its humor.
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Summary: The truth is stranger than fiction
Comment: This documentary is factual, hilarious, and very Australian. It provides interviews with different individuals, who relay their experience and opinions of the Cane Toad, an introduced species that is basically wiping out the Australian ecosystem north of Sydney. See the Canadian scientist with the slight flinch in his eye while he tells you of the toad induced death of his prized endangered cat. See the Aussie bloke in the Combi Van who likes to run over them ("if you get 'em just right, they go pop ...."). Fascinating info on the toad itself, as well.
Luckily, this is so warped and funny, that you hardly notice the environmental catastrophe. EVERY AUSTRALIAN SHOULD SEE THIS.
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This odd documentary is for the audience that can't get enough of off-center, real-life tales akin to those captured by Errol Morris (Gates of Heaven). In the 1930s Australian sugar-cane farmers imported the bufo marinus, or cane toad, from Hawaii to destroy the crop-damaging greyback beetle. In short, the descendents of the original 102 toads virtually took over half a continent. We hear from all sides about the problem: the scientific studies of their mating habits (bruising), defense systems (poison that can kill a predator), and their eating habits (almost anything). Much of Mark Lewis's short film sticks with the common folk and their polarized feelings about the animal. Told with a great amount of wit, this 1987 documentary illustrates that the strangest things on film are always true. --Doug Thomas
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