Bindi, the Jungle Girl

2007
7.4| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

Bindi the Jungle Girl is an Australian children's television nature documentary series, presented by Bindi Irwin, the daughter of Steve and Terri Irwin. The series is produced and shot in Queensland by The Best Picture Show Company for Discovery Kids and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The first series was scheduled for 26 episodes, and ran from 9 June 2007 until 31 May 2008 on American networks Discovery Kids and simulcast on Animal Planet and on ABC1 in Australia from 18 July 2007. Also appearing on the show are Bindi's mother Terri, her younger brother Robert, and Steve Irwin's "best mate" and director of Australia Zoo, Wes Mannion. Bindi performs songs and dances with a group called the Crocmen, and answers questions from viewers in the "Bindi's Blog" segment. It was aired on Playtime Krumeater. Steve Irwin appeared in several episodes filmed prior to his death in 2006. The second series was produced after his death, but he appears in archive footage in a segment named "Croc Hunter Unplugged", and is generally spoken of transcendentally in the present tense.

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Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
jigglysailormoon-1 This is a review for the Slumber Party episode I saw on TLC.*ahem* The premise? A lofty one, I presume. Bindi's girl friend comes to her treehouse deep in the belly of this thick jungle. For a slumber party? During the Crikey Facts section, Terri makes a departure from all of her other animal based facts and proceeds to give the percentage of overweight Americans...what does this have to do with anything, and why the need to insult Americans? At one point Steve states "We're about to see some girl action, ALL girl action" when speaking of crocs in a cage. I thought it was hilarious.Bindi does a dance with the Croc Men, and then with her visiting friend.Commercial.Nearing the end, there are bloopers shown. One of a mound of crickets crawling in Bindi's cupped hands as her squeals fill the room, and others which are funny also. Best part of the episode if you ask me.At the end, Bindi pulls the Croc Men's sleeping caps over their faces and goes up to her room, says night night to her friend, scrambles up to the top level of the wooden bunk bed and says goodnight to the audience.Suggestions for future shows I will now...suggest?Maybe have a special episode about weird animal facts, such as sharks are immune to cancer, cat's ears have 30+ bones in them(the human ear has less than 5) and episode on the waning wildlife and the draining going on in the Florida Everglades. The volcano lying beneath Antarctica, and what effect it will have on the earth if it erupts.I can feel the inferno sleeping within Bindi, and this is obvious if you've seen any other episode outside of this one. It is just below the surface and there are endless vistas which this show can explore to bring that out, and I'd love to them explore those instead of watching them continue with the trite infotainment perpetrated in this Slumber Party episode.Love the show, Bin Bin!