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Summary: Great Film
Review: This is a great film to have. The narration is top notch and the music by STING is a perfect complement to the images of the sea. The original in IMAX is great.
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Summary: "the cradle of life"
Review: This is an educational film which also has hypnotically beautiful visuals and a lovely score put together by composer Steve Wood that includes a lot of music and vocals by Sting, as well as having Meryl Streep give us a stream of information in her well-spoken narration.
It documents the sea and its creatures, and also how people connect with it, either for pleasure, commerce, or survival. We get to see the Coast Guard boat traveling through 15 foot waves, some outstanding surfing footage, and how the inhabitants of the West Pacific island of Palau interact and respect the water that surrounds them.One one level one can use this film to learn some facts about the ocean, and on another, one can sit back and enjoy the wonderful cinematography. Fascinating parts include the jellyfish in Palau, the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute showing us a Siphonophore, which is about half the size of a football field, and visible through their underwater probe, and of course, the whales ! The film is 40 minutes long, and the video contains a 27 minute "Making of" documentary, which has interviews with Producer/Director Greg MacGillivray, among others, like photographer Howard Hall describing the difficulty of filming in water.
I found this documentary particularly interesting, and think it deserves 5 stars, because it gave me knowledge I did not have before, and the filmmakers made some painstaking efforts to bring it to us, like the timelapse photography of the tides. It was nominated for a 1995 Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award, and seeing it is definitely time well spent.
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Summary: Imax at it's Best
Review: This is the reason I buy Imax films. The movie has a series of semi quick hit's on different subjects involeing the sea. This is eye candy at it best. I am not a big Sting fan but his score really hit's the mark in this film and is a big plus. The story is not deep but very enjoyable. You get the feeling that the people whole made it really love the sea. They give you more than a few thrills with the photography. There is a wow scene with thousand's of jelly fish. The surfing shot's were great and will really give your sound system a work out. This is a Imax film that goes for the visual's and the sound. The stories are brief but not preachy. It is not a Imax film that tell's a dumb story at the expence of the sceneary. In this film they go for the thrill and show there love for the sea.
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Summary: The oceans in a nutshell...
Review: This movie takes you on a whirlwind tour of how mother nature will always rule the earth. The sound track is incredible, and the photography will blow you away. I saw it in original IMAX format at the premier in Seattle and it was awesome. My favorite part is the U.S. Coast Guard sequence at Cape D (mainly because i'm in it-the guy on the left). That 2 minutes you see was 40 hours in the surf of pounding the crap out of everyone, director included. Just a great movie all the way around.
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Summary: Amazing motion picture
Review: What a great piece of filmmaking. They've done it again with Coral Reef Adventure - should be available soon on DVD. For younger kids who are looking for more - check out Captain Jon Explores the Ocean, also available on Amazon.
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