Not a new concept but provides approx 45 mins of fun...who doesn't like Bear 👍
20 Reviews
Enjoyable
jamie-3665316 February 2021
I Killed Him! Again!
bluestminou26 February 2021
Good Work Bear Grylls!
dominikflocke16 February 2021
Good but too short
dave-2926016 March 2021
Too artificial
samjlopes16 February 2021
All scenes seem staged
thinusgroen17 February 2021
Nothing more fake
sergiobentim21 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This is probably one of the worst movies or shows, the actor is terrible, the scenes are so fake, it is impossible to believe anything is actually happening around him. When he loses the rope he supposedly used to get off a chopper there is no helicopter around. When he catches berries on the beach the branch with berries was placed there, it is totally loose. When he spots a baboon he is looking up with a binocular and the footage is from someone filming from high, IT IS SO RIDICULOUS!!! This guy is totally fake.
Fun with my 5 year-old
memphisjim18 February 2021
This movie is definitely geared towards a younger audience, thus all the bad reviews. My kid loved watching this and the interactive feature really held his attention. It really was a good learning tool and I hope more shows incorporate the interactive options.
Way to fake
ametallicaman198918 February 2021
Way to fake and staged to enjoy. Its just hard to really enjoy something that is so cringe. I like Bear. Even though I have read he has the reputation of being fake more than most shows like this. And I'm not just referring to the lost animal situations. My kids enjoy it though.
How did this get funded?
Henry-klein19 February 2021
Especially in a Longer Format, This Act is Stale
drqshadow-reviews13 April 2021
A puffed-up version of Netflix's resident choose-your-own-adventure survival series, in which an electrical shortage has freed several African creatures from their fenced habitat and Bear Grylls throws himself out of a helicopter to save the day. My kids loved the shorter previous episodes and, appealing to my interest in feeding Grylls dung or callously hurling him to his death, talked me into trying the full-sized course this weekend. Lord, it's bad.
I can appreciate that the very idea of a viewer-directed movie is inherently problematic, from both pacing and storytelling perspectives, and I'm willing to cut a little slack in those respects. Even Black Mirror had some trouble adapting their work to fit this quirky brand of uncertainty. Animals on the Loose is just so shallow, so forced and stupid, that I quickly reached my capacity for forgiveness. Clearly, Grylls isn't one of my TV favorites, and the show is thoroughly smeared with his particular style of dubious reasoning and gross-out Fear Factor showboating. He's barely off the chopper when he starts scavenging for food, reasoning that he'll need a protein hit to continue his search for the missing animals. Has he been fasting? That's the immediate priority? Eventually, we're asked to choose between a fistful of plump red berries and a wriggling grub. That's indicative of the sort of quandaries we'll face throughout the story. Our decisions don't really matter in a grand sense or, in cases where we may have been too reckless, merely lead to a short end-of-road acknowledgement before looping back to ask if we'd like to pick another option instead.
The tech is easily confused, too: late in the story, as the whole family labored to stick with it to the end, the system failed to register that we'd already caught a runaway lion and fell into a recursive loop of continuous surprise attacks. We didn't have the strength to start it all over from the beginning. Final analysis: I managed to kill the host twice, but could not feed him any poop.
I can appreciate that the very idea of a viewer-directed movie is inherently problematic, from both pacing and storytelling perspectives, and I'm willing to cut a little slack in those respects. Even Black Mirror had some trouble adapting their work to fit this quirky brand of uncertainty. Animals on the Loose is just so shallow, so forced and stupid, that I quickly reached my capacity for forgiveness. Clearly, Grylls isn't one of my TV favorites, and the show is thoroughly smeared with his particular style of dubious reasoning and gross-out Fear Factor showboating. He's barely off the chopper when he starts scavenging for food, reasoning that he'll need a protein hit to continue his search for the missing animals. Has he been fasting? That's the immediate priority? Eventually, we're asked to choose between a fistful of plump red berries and a wriggling grub. That's indicative of the sort of quandaries we'll face throughout the story. Our decisions don't really matter in a grand sense or, in cases where we may have been too reckless, merely lead to a short end-of-road acknowledgement before looping back to ask if we'd like to pick another option instead.
The tech is easily confused, too: late in the story, as the whole family labored to stick with it to the end, the system failed to register that we'd already caught a runaway lion and fell into a recursive loop of continuous surprise attacks. We didn't have the strength to start it all over from the beginning. Final analysis: I managed to kill the host twice, but could not feed him any poop.
Pretty enjoyable if you don´t excpect to much
potterheadghg19 February 2021
All the situations seem very staged, but I knew that before I watched it so it wasn´t disappointing. If you want so have some fun for an hour and you want to know if you could make these tricky decisions, you should try it. Additionally, the nature shots are beautiful. So it´s not very realistic or thrilling, but it´s worth a watch.
Painful to watch
botajames16 February 2021
Those animals are paid actors, so relax...
geovannyboss16 February 2021
The real things is that the camera men took more risk than bear grylls himself..series was too damn scripted..
Almost gets killed by a constrictor, "i hATe sNaKes." dude that's your takeaway from this encounter?
A) Up Tree b) Under Truck c) Eat The Lion ....
Almost gets killed by a constrictor, "i hATe sNaKes." dude that's your takeaway from this encounter?
A) Up Tree b) Under Truck c) Eat The Lion ....
Absolute cow faeces
rpndygs24 February 2021
I have never seen something this fake!
shpresim_kuqi23 February 2021
Entertaining
dchchaman17 February 2021
Not accurate at all but I guess silly fun
charlotte-grub18 February 2021
Yep, it's staged and better for it
bitterblizzard16 March 2021
For the people complaining it's staged, how do you make a choose your adventure type program that isn't planned out? Besides, left to his own devices, Bear Grylls would uneventfully find his way to civilisation in about 15 minutes. Like Top Gear or Mythbusters, you need some light scripting to make the entertainment shine, while still being mildly educational.
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