Mermaids: The Body Found

As far as mocumentary goes this one is very compelling. It makes the audience think and ponder the possibility of a mermaid while still maintaining a healthy amount of fiction. It is far from perfect but highly entertaining.

I dont know why everyone is so upset by this, mermaids do not exist so obviously this is not a documentary. Animal planet did another mockumentary on the Yeti and the Dyatlov pass incident. This one got a lot of hate speech also but if you watch these with an open mind and realize that they are actually for entertainment purposes you can actually enjoy it. If they can do documentaries on real animals, why cant they documentaries on mystical ones? Ask yourself, do you hate all fictional movies, books and songs because they are based on an unreality? no, so what good reason is there to hate this?

The mocks use factual mystery to create this fiction, that is what makes it better. The bloop sound for example. The acting is good and I like it how the interviews are done. Animal planet clearly has enough money to go beyond the study of animals and I think its a fine thing that they do things like this. Im impressed that Animal Planet are actively willing to destroy their own market by taking a less serious root but in doing so they possibly might be creating a new one? I hope they make more like this, I think one on the Lochness would be a great show.

"Fun Fact: It's always fun when a network with a reputation for fact based programming decides to present a non-factual program with no warning!"

I think people are being to harsh on this film, I found it interesting and the thought that these may be true is simply too wonderful for words. Just enjoy the ride of what may be rather then only seeming that it may not be.

This film also makes some very good points and it worth watching. The people who are just mad that this turned out to be a fake documentary need to learn to open your minds and just enjoy dreaming that we have some long lost brothers we have been dreaming of an telling stories of for eons. I adore this film, even if it isn't a real documentary. It may prove real someday.

But I enjoyed this documentary so much, I don't even know why. I'm going to watch it again for sure.

Very entertaining flight of fancy, a 'what if' which made a few base suppositions and then went from there, allowing the story to develop. Very obviously fake, but entertaining to follow what might have happened had humans evolved into the oceans. Tying it into conspiracy theories was a bit dodgy, but also gave the film a good plot device about why nothing would have been heard about across the globe- "the government covered it up".

Now, if you're one of the screamers out there crying that Animal Planet dared to show a fictional documentary, what you're really saying is "I have no ability to think critically and so depend upon the television to tell me the truth, because of course, television never lies and channels shouldn't ever change their programming. Animal Planet shouldn't ever expect me to think for myself and judge whether something is fiction or reality." I recommend this 'documentary' to anyone with enough sense to know when something is a work of pure (if enjoyable) fiction.