Not actually a documentary, Perri is a drama made of nature clips cobbled into a very loose story that is only kind of about Perri. Imagine if you spent three years filming around New York, occasionally getting footage of a tall gangly man, cut and pasted some scenes together, and called it Friends and every tall gangly man is Ross. We spend a lot of Perri on terrible original songs (which play over some random forest B-Roll) and other critters that aren't a part of the Perri story. I was under the impression that this was a documentary, but it's "inspired" by a book that was a sequel to Bambi. They spent three years filming and picked some footage to sort of match the book, which includes a weird scene where we see Perri's dream (which includes cartoon snowflakes). It isn't informative and the story barely qualifies as a story. It doesn't look great, which is fair do to its age, and there are a lot of obvious sound effects (I assume it was a technology issue?), but I can't excuse the terrible voice over who sometimes speaks in lame rhymes. I'm really not sure what the point of this whole thing was; they had three years worth of stuff, they could have legitimately just told the real life story of one squirrel or made a generic forest episode like Planet Earth. Actually, don't watch Perri, just watch any episode of Planet Earth.
Not actually a documentary, Perri is a drama made of nature clips cobbled into a very loose story that is only kind of about Perri. Imagine if you spent three years filming around New York, occasionally getting footage of a tall gangly man, cut and pasted some scenes together, and called it Friends and every tall gangly man is Ross. We spend a lot of Perri on terrible original songs (which play over some random forest B-Roll) and other critters that aren't a part of the Perri story. I was under the impression that this was a documentary, but it's "inspired" by a book that was a sequel to Bambi. They spent three years filming and picked some footage to sort of match the book, which includes a weird scene where we see Perri's dream (which includes cartoon snowflakes). It isn't informative and the story barely qualifies as a story. It doesn't look great, which is fair do to its age, and there are a lot of obvious sound effects (I assume it was a technology issue?), but I can't excuse the terrible voice over who sometimes speaks in lame rhymes. I'm really not sure what the point of this whole thing was; they had three years worth of stuff, they could have legitimately just told the real life story of one squirrel or made a generic forest episode like Planet Earth. Actually, don't watch Perri, just watch any episode of Planet Earth.
