kazerniel

The film has plenty of humorous scenes, but it never really coalesces into a coherent whole.

It has both a very childish sense of humour (with cartoonish CGI!), but also long scenes full of sex-related references and banter. So it feels like the film doesn't really know what kind of audience it tries to address.

While it does a good job of painting both conflicting neighbours as likeable and unlikeable at the same time, the characterisations and character dynamics are completely subject to Rule of Silly. Two character can be swearing at each other in one scene, and have a friendly chat in the next.

It feels like this show can't decide what it's trying to be.

It's made up of nature footage under a narration that is trying to sound deep and inspiring, but is instead just vague fluff that's barely connected to what's going on on the screen. I couldn't figure out what the narrator was actually trying to tell to the viewer.

For a meditation aid, there's too much talking.

For a nature documentary, the narration is completely uninformative.

From the BBC iPlayer blurb I was hoping for a more grounded explanation and guidance about mindfulness instead of whatever this is.

The spy cam is a pointless gimmick; the vast majority of scenes seem to have been shot with a regular camera, so a lot of the time unconvincing mechatronic animals take the centre stage from the real ones with no payoff.

The occasional anthropomorphising writing, and comedic music and sound effects don't help either.