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Sadly, there are few laughs on offer here. In fact, this is the sort
of wild life saving program even Steve Irwin would avoid. Yep Wild Thing - I Love You is essentially about saving roadkill.
Isn't that pushing conservation one step too far?
The British Channel 4 doco series follows stand-up comedian and Black Books
actor Bill Bailey as the unlikely champion of endangered wildlife. Bill
and his team of experts - ecologist Dusty Gedge, zoologist Dr Sasha
Norris and
engineer Jem Stansfield (who really are just a bunch of nerds who are
trying to impress and be friends with a cool TV comedy star) - on a
mission to save some of the UK's most vulnerable wildlife from human
encroachment.
The team must determine possible causes of wildlife
problems then try to come up with engineering solutions to solve them - but only have a short time in which to do it.
From critter-crossings to translocation – Bill and his team will stop at nothing to help Britain’s wildlife.
Well,
they will stop - plenty of times. It's quite exciting to see a
Discovery Channel series in which 20 men wrestle with a giant
endangered crocodile in order to find it a new and safe place to
continue it's life. However, watching two or three middle aged
scientists in fluro orange safety vests standing near a highway looking
for mice... well... that's kind of not fun.
Bailey often looks
out of his depth, and his various attempts at rustling up some laughs
meet deaf ears... thanks largely to the humourless scientist team who
wouldn't know sarcasm or a good joke if it bit them on the yellow
safety hard hat.
Enviro-nuts will likely find some appeal in
this, but for the majority of those tuning in to see Bailey let
loose... you will be sorely dissapointed.
A real waste of comedic talent... but I guess it's a good thing for the environment... I guess.
DVD EXTRAS
The series is spread over three discs here, so if this is your kind of thing - it's pretty good value for money.
Not
an extra in sight, but there isn't really much more you need to see
(honestly, do we really need to see a deleted sequence in which Bill is
drinking a coffee while waiting for an animal to come out of it's hidey
hole?).
Conclusion:
Movie 60% Extras: N/A
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