March of the Penguins

I found the story--the real story behind the movie--of the penguins to be poignant and impressive. The efforts that go into survival!

The movie, however, I found manipulative and deceptive in several ways. A few examples:
1) Size of the penguins--they were intentionally made to seem human-sized throughout. Only in the credits do we actually see humans in the same shot and see how small they are. For me, this was somewhat transparent anthropomorphization, and one can only be skeptical of the purposes for which this was done.
2) Mating: They made a point of how there are more males than females, but said nothing about where all the single males go. Do they slink off back to the sea in defeat, or support the desperate effort of the colony to stay warm? Answer: not given.
3) Bodily functions: Do they have any? The environmental effects of the numbers one and two they must produce--particularly, stuck in one place--totally overlooked. (I did see what appeared to be a frozen feces at one point.) Which brings up #4:
4) Is this the one and only place in the world where these penguins mate? Not answered. The environmental stress and the fact the whole species depends on this one place suggests it will be impossible for humans to keep their nose out of it for long. Such vulnerability means, to me, that tragedy looms.

The movie producers' desire to "keep it simple, stupid" actually makes it much less effective as a documentary source of information, and the misleading portrayal makes me doubt any real message that might come from it.

I've heard this film has become the new darling of the right-wing evangelicals. Could it be because manipulation of the masses is the central Bushite value?