Pssst, want to check out Cane Toads: The Conquest in our new look?
Information
- Year
- 2010
- Runtime
- 85 min.
- Director
- Mark Lewis
- Genre
- Documentary
- Rating *
- 7.0
- Votes *
- 251
- Checks
- 54
- Favs
- 2
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 3.7% (1:27)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:0
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Siskoid
More than 20 years after the first film, Mark Lewis returns to the subject of Cane Toads in The Conquest, and while the frogs have advanced on Australia, humanity hasn't made much of a dent on its end. While Lewis has to reiterate the historical context and biological realities for a new audience (he also revisits the little girl on the original poster, now all grown up), The Conquest largely new material. He's found goofy new talking heads to interview and has pushed the documentary to feature length. If you're only going to see ONE Cane Toads documentary, I still still say it should be the 1988 original even if this one is visually slicker. I'm giving them the same essential score though, because it could be an either/or proposition. The Conquest is more up to date and Lewis put his usual effort in. It's perhaps not as shockingly absurd. But despite this being the second go-round, he still gave a transplants invasive species a certain poignancy. Can you feel bad for an entire species that "didn't ask to be here"? I guess you can. 4 months 3 weeks ago