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Created Feb 09, 2011 01:41AM PST • Edited Feb 26, 2011 02:01AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   Yosemite lovers will find this brief NatGeo documentary a spectacular bit of uplifting TV, especially when streamed onto an HD big screen. A touch preachy perhaps, yet its vistas trump all.

   Amongst the highlights: shots up Little Yosemite Valley as monumental lightning bolts strike Nevada Falls; a climber’s eye view of the El Capitan face; getting hoisted to the crown of a Mariposa Grove sequoia.

   Yo! Sem! It! Tee!

4. Acting

   Good 3.0

5. Male Stars Good 3.0

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars Good 3.0

8. Male Costars Good 3.0

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

    Fire, water, air and earth are primally excellent themes from which to understand the landscape that we know as Yosemite.

11. Direction Very Good 3.5

12. Play Good 3.0

13. Music Good 3.0

14. Visuals Perfect 5.0
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.0

17. Sex Innocent 1.0

18. Violence Gentle 1.0

19. Rudeness Polite 1.0

21. Reality

    Glib 1.2

    Specious global warming claims are de rigueur in docs like this. Pity.

22. Circumstantial Natural 1.0

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Glib 1.5