Cane Toads: The Conquest

PG

2010

1 hr. 30 min.

Documentary

Comedy

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Giant toads leave devastation across Australia.

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One of the best, most original films I've ever seen about toads. Also, cane toads are adorable in the best kind of pathetic way. I highly recommend this film, especially if you like to wind down with a nature film at the end of a long day, because this film has nature and so much more to offer.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Bloody Ugly Thing's ..Destroying Australia's Natural Habitat, What A Disgrace.The Characters Of The Top End, Their Silly Stories, Certainly Give It Some Lite-Hearted Entertainment Against A Backdrop Of An Ecological Disaster..(102 Toads Now Number Over 1.5-billion)..Dunno Whether To Laugh, Or Cry.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Told with a tongue-in-cheek style, this documentary tells the story of the introduction of the cane toad to Australia and some of the environmental consequences that have followed. The tale focuses on some quirky characters and individual experiences connected to the remorseless spread of the amphibian, with "toad-eye" views on much of the action. We also get explanations and expansions by a number of scientific speakers. One is left with a feeling of admiration for a species that can adapt so well to a new environment and seems to be able to thwart every effort to control it. Where I feel this programme lacked over others I have seen is that the full damage to the wildlife of Australia wasn't really made clear. The film concentrated on the social consequences and the effect on pets, notably a few sequences connected with dogs. All in all, the film makes an entertaining, humorous and informative wildlife documentary but, personally, I prefer something with a little more detail and scientific explanation.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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See what uneducated so called scientists can do to our country.......if they arent already, be in Perth by Chrissy. Gawd they're ugly mo fo's......just saying. Interesting doco though.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Cain Toads The Conquest is Australia's first 3D film. It's a follow up documentary to the 1988 film Cain Toads: An Unnatural History. Having seen that I can reassure you that this new doco stands alone. I didn't see it at the cinema but I wish I had. The 3D would have added an entirely different level of humour to it. On dvd it's an informative, amusing and scary story. We all know how cain toads were introduced and we've all heard stories of them invading backyards in the thousands.... we've certainly heard of people playing golf with them. This film looks at everything we know about the vermin and attempts to understand them. It questions what can be done to stop them and canvases a broad diversity of opinions. "Nuke the bloody things". "Create a militia". "Use them for medicinal purposes" etc... at the end of the day the toads win and we've got ourselves to blame. This is a very funny film that might change peoples' opinions of cain toads, or it will simply fuel their hatred even more. Ugly bastards!!!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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harsh c

Some good photography and a couple of funny characters but would have been better if half was edited out.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Mark Lewis

Director

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Mark Lewis

Writer

Jeff Skoll

Executive Producer

Diane Weyermann

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David Lewis

San Francisco Chronicle

The namesake of the wacky, yet substantial documentary "Cane Toads: The Conquest" is not a creature to be taken lightly, even if the film (and the audience) has plenty of fun at his expense.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 13, 2012

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

Honestly, you couldn't make it up.

Sep 30, 2011

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Henry Barnes

Guardian

It's director Mark Lewis's focus on this war's heroes that give his chirpy doc its bounce.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 29, 2011

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Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

Impressively directed, beautifully shot and quirkily irreverent, this is an entertaining, frequently fascinating documentary that manages to be both chilling and laugh-out-loud funny while delivering a serious ecological message.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 1, 2011

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Matt Glasby

Total Film

Mark Lewis' fascinating-if-niche documentary intersperses great 3D shots of these glistening, gobbling Jabbas with testimonies from boffins and crackpots.

Sep 28, 2011

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CJ Johnson

Film Mafia

[Lewis'] art is all his own: no-one else shoots ugly amphibious imported pests in 3D quite like him.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 22, 2011

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Synopsis

Giant toads leave devastation across Australia.

Director: Mark Lewis
Executive Producer: Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Clark Bunting
Screenwriter: Mark Lewis
Rating: PG
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Original Language: English

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