Rating  - It's pretty much my favorite ever.
It's the best. I recorded it on my DVR and watched it five times in just as many days. Then I asked for it for my birthday and I invite people over just to watch it. It's gorgeous and profound. Although I do agree that there are some things that need to be addressed and so on, and it would be interesting to know the scenarios in which people would die off (but that's really not the point of it, the point is what happens to the Earth, not to us. I think that should be saved for a different documentary).
I give it five stars and a high five. It's great.
Rating  - Poor Doggies
Life After People entertained for awhile, but after awhile it just didn't matter. 20 minutes into the film we got the idea. My kids felt bad about the fate of the pets, animals, and especially the dogs. They didn't believe Earth could ever be depopulated; they said there will always be people on Earth because we reproduce like crazy.
I felt the video needed to start with some reason for the total absence of human life. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened to the bodies. The animals feasting on human bodies would be gruesome, but kids like gore. Under what conidtions would only humanity die off? It is the kind of story you can start anywhere. Regardless, I'm glad I bought the video.
Rating - There's an Intriguing Spiritual Side to this Documentary; Could be Great for Small Groups
I was mesmerized by this speculative look at how all of the works of our hands will begin to vanish -- if humans suddenly are removed from the Earth.
Watch this documentary, read Psalm 90 or Ecclesiastes -- or sections of Jesus' teachings, if you're Christian -- or sections of the Quran or the Vedas about the impermanence of life. There's also a fascinating connection here with Buddhist visions of the world around us. In other words, in addition to the science lessons and suspenseful, sci-fi tone of this documentary -- there's also a haunting and most likely a very healthy moment of spiritual reflection in viewing this film.
Try it with a small discussion group, in fact. There'll be no shortage of discussion after watching this film.
The documentary is produced in a fast-cut, MTV style, but that's the popular look and feel of the hit series on Discovery and other nonfiction cable channels these days.
The idea is quite simple: An array of scientists and engineers lay out how our homes, offices, roads and everything else we've made and built would begin crumbling the moment we leave the scene. It's fascinating to discover how fragile some of these systems really are!
Rating  - Mesmerizing
This was a fascinating look ahead into a world without folks (us) to mess it up anymore. There were no moralistic lessons to be learned or cautionary advice as in "An Inconvenient Truth" or "11th Hour". The only point is that when people leave the earth and have all returned to their basic chemical elements, the earth itself will start it's transformation to slough off its skin of human construct. A lot of thought went into the chronological layering of how and when this will be accomplished. I'd never given much thought to when steel (if not protected by paint) would morph back to iron. I'd never considered what would happen to the family pet if Purina weren't around. I felt worse about the demise of books - the insight into the soul of man, the diary of our existence - disintegrating to no more than powder.
My only criticism is that the story lasted a little too long and often repeated itself. Overall, though, it's well worth watching.....bg
Rating - Fascinating documentary
This is an imaginative documentary on what might happen to all we have created if people simply disappeared. This is a not an environmentalist video - it doesn't advocate people dying off nor does it explain why we vanish - it is more from the engineering/biological standpoint: what would happen to world famous landmarks if they were abandoned, how would domestic animal adapt (or not), what would happen to animal pests we fight off now? For the armchair engineer/biologist, it is imaginative and fascinating. Combines the talent of leading structural specialists, biologists, and convincing CGI optical effects from Industrial Light and Magic.
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