African Cats

Documentary, Nature
4.5 stars
Excellent; both tense and heartbreaking. This years Earth Day Disney production features three families on the Maasai Mara Wildlife Preserve in Kenya. There is the utopian family of six lionesses and their cubs protected by a single male lion; across a crocodile infested river there is the pride of four male lions who want to conquer the single male and take over his harem; then there is the single mom Cheetah trying to defend and rear her cubs all by herself. There are plenty of tense situations where the cubs are threatened or cats you’ve become attached to get maimed and/or killed. I teared up and sniffled several times. This may be too intense for sensitive young ones. Good movie.