Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

edgar-poe I am still not sure if it is counted as a documentary or film, but this does not matter. I always liked nature so this movie is near to my spirits. I wished to see it as 3D but I think that such a release has not come up yet. The movie does not need any comment or subtitles. Just watch it. Keep on and you will learn who you are and where you live. The documentary is about everything, although it focused mainly on insects. You can imagine what just an innocent step in microcosmos can cause. All these little cuties and monsters have their own world and microcosmos maps it with a mild sight. French are great at such documentaries and this can be seen as a kind of conclusion. Beautiful shots, I can imagine setting the camera for hours, waiting for proceeding of an ant and then show all that crusade during several seconds. Maybe it seems that this kind of movie does not need any screenplay, but I do not agree with it. When you watch it, you find out it made some sense. Insects also behave according to schedules and needs. Actually, there is no point in describing the movie here, you must see it and you will want more to see. Beautiful beauty.

Tom Murray The world of tiny things is viewed, greatly magnified, as if you were as tiny as an insect. This fascinating film, although officially a documentary, is actually a work of art, depicting the beauty, as well as the ugliness, that exists at that level. There is no story, only many wonderful episodes, beautifully filmed. All aspects of life are depicted: mating, birth, death, violence etc. The mating scenes range from humorous to romantically sensual. The sounds of nature are sometimes enhanced by music and the sights by time-lapse photography. You may recognize some of the scenes; they were used in several TV commercials.

tom_75252 I watched it for 20 minutes then pressed eject because I was bored... then I came back and watched the rest of it. The year is now 2006 and this documentary was made in 1996. But watching the DVD looks like it was shot in high-def with the most modern camera. It's crystal clear. I would recommend this even though it starts out boring. There is very little narration, which is kind of nice. I laughed so hard in one scene... a dung-beatle is pushing his find along and it gets stuck. He finally figures out how to get it unstuck. There are so many interesting scenes. Another one shows a spider building a large bubble under-water by going to get air several times and bring more air to make the under-water bubble larger. Lots of interesting things just like that. It kind of makes insects look cute.

Philip Van der Veken If you know the documentary "Le peuple migrateur" (or "Winged Migration" in Enlgish) and you loved it, than you also must give "Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe" a try. It's not exactly the same of course, but you'll certainly recognize the same style of images and narration and the idea behind it.This time it isn't about birds, but about insects. I know, many people don't like those creepy little creatures and to be honest, neither do I, but why shouldn't you try to get to know them a little bit better? Indeed, there's no reason why not, except for when you are terrified to even watch them on a TV-screen of course. And when you watch this documentary, I can assure you that it will surprise you, because this is the first time anybody has ever watched and portrayed these little animals in such a magnificent way. You are really able to penetrate their world and to see that meadow, pond or garden in which they live as one giant universe, their world. I'm not saying that I started to love insects after seeing this movie, but I certainly learned to see them in a different perspective. I guess that they'll never be my favorites, but that doesn't mean of course that this documentary isn't nice to watch. The fact that everything was shot in close-up, sometimes even with time-laps camera's, just to show every little detail, makes this a very interesting view on their little world that we know so little of. I give this movie a 7/10.