Puff: Wonders of the Reef

Amazing colorful images from the Great Barrier Reef. Beautiful insight in the life of the reef from the eyes of a puffer fish. Hopefully those that see this understand the damage we can inflict on the planet and how serious the global warming is.

It's a stylised documentary, portraying an important message. It's better than any animation for learning like that. Incredible visuals, colour corrected to our sight. I can't see anything wrong with that. The reef has just respawned too, which is very great news! We have to help these funny little guys x.

This new fascinating film is SO underrated, found in Netflix's "kids" section. Photo pic looks like it's for kids but it's a true Wondor world of essential incredible microscopic life on Great Barrier Reef, and relevant to all reefs. The breathtaking colors, details, & film quality are exceptionally lovely, exceeding BBC earth at times using latest tech.

Narration is told mainly from a colorful tiny puffer fish's point of view & how he must survive in a thriving reef. One is quickly engaged & developes empathy for this adorable tiny newly hatched fish, & ALL magnificent micro organisms that create & surround his ocean world.

Majority of Film presents stages of struggle & humor for puffer fish and many weird & wonderful tiny micro lives surviving the reef world in stunning fascinating manner. Then it becomes heartbreaking as viewers see results of a warming ocean from climate change, the destruction of corals & billions of lives within.

This film is proof NOT to take our seas for granted as humanity continues to act despite decades of widespread hard science. Narration delicately teaches, not preaches, & allows viewer to decide the issue of adverse climate change affects by showing time lapse destruction of a once vibrant reef beyond imagination, then its death - the ocean's foundation, building blocks for all life including humanity. It motivates one to care , protect & think about hidden biodiverse ecosystems that benefit all humans.

For those critics desiring original eye opening docu film with true under cover scenes & causel science, displaying insatiable human greed fueling global mass commercial slaughter of all sea life since 1920s, unenforced laws, real culprits of plastic ocean poisoning, its sea life incl ppl who eat them- watch Netflix's "Seaspiracy". That docu also shows how consumers daily choices can stop secret greed based "unseen" plunder that threatens humanity's health & future.

I'm not sure why this documentary was made. It's not really about a pufferfish named Puff (cute but not very imaginative); nor is it really about corals; though both are featured prominently.

The film is beautiful to look at, no doubt. But there just isn't all that much new information or even interesting information to justify another documentary about global warming.

Best that I can say is that this was a good idea that was not well executed.

The first thing to be said about Puff is how astonishingly beautiful it is. We are given a glimpse into a microscopic world that is endlessly fascinating and colorful, and the images themselves are a miracle of modern science. Added to this, we have good pacing; Yes, it does feel a little slow at times, almost as if it's happening under water (lol), but there are also some genuinely tense moments and the filmmakers should be commended for the way those moments are crafted.

This movie has been accused of having an agenda and and maybe it does, but it's far from preachy. It simply shows us the realities of a world we forget exists and informs us of our effect on it. The truth is that any modern nature documentary has to record the human affect or it's not doing its job; it's incomplete, and anyone bemoaning this fact probably has an agenda of their own.

Either way, Puff should be a good watch for documentary lovers, especially if they're interested in underwater life.

8/10.