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Bookmark this pageCane Toads: The Conquest (2010)
Director: Mark Lewis
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From Time Out London
Mark Lewis follows up his irreverent 1988 nature doc ‘Cane Toads: An Unnatural History’ with an equally amusing, 3D enhanced visit to to Queensland to introduce us to the perpetrators of one of Australia’s worst ecological disasters in crisp, three-dimensional detail and record their inexorable advance across the country. It all started to go wrong in 1932, when, in an effort to eradicate the sugarcane-destroying greyback beetle, one Cyril Pemberton arrived with two suitcases of toxic cane toads from Puerto Rico. The toads failed miserably: instead of eating the beetles, they simply multiplied, screwing up the ecosystem. Lewis’s documentary wallows in the absurdity of this man-made catastrophe by way of cheeky footage and interviews to make you chuckle. A shame, then, that its drift becomes a little too repetitive to pull you in completely.Author: Derek Adams
Time Out London Issue 2145: 29 Sept - 5 Oct, 2011
Cast & crew
Director: Mark Lewis
Genre(s): Documentaries
Rated: PG
Duration: 84 mins
UK Release: Sep 30 2011
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