This is an amazing movie about life in the ocean. I have never seen any movie that comes close in visual beauty. Every shot is astounding. It is as emotionally engaging as Bambi was for me when I saw it an age 5. It a labour of love. The amount of work that went into this film is staggering.
Pierce Brosnan narrates sparingly. The movie generates awe and wonder, not intellectual understanding.
The film is bursting with creatures I have never seen before, so fantastic and strange at times I felt I must be watching the creations of some mad 3D animator on LSD, or Fellini's ghost.
You want to see this on the big screen.
My only complaint is about the Foley artist, Brian Moseley, whose "natural" sound effects are positively silly, obviously not the actual sounds of the creatures or the ocean. Thankfully, the original score played by the Berlin Philharmonic covers up most of those ridiculous Star Trek swooshes and gurgling toilets.
Only in retrospect do you wonder about how the cameramen created so many impossible shots. There is not a human or a human artifact anywhere in the movie. Nature is presented in pristine perfection.
Pierce Brosnan narrates sparingly. The movie generates awe and wonder, not intellectual understanding.
The film is bursting with creatures I have never seen before, so fantastic and strange at times I felt I must be watching the creations of some mad 3D animator on LSD, or Fellini's ghost.
You want to see this on the big screen.
My only complaint is about the Foley artist, Brian Moseley, whose "natural" sound effects are positively silly, obviously not the actual sounds of the creatures or the ocean. Thankfully, the original score played by the Berlin Philharmonic covers up most of those ridiculous Star Trek swooshes and gurgling toilets.
Only in retrospect do you wonder about how the cameramen created so many impossible shots. There is not a human or a human artifact anywhere in the movie. Nature is presented in pristine perfection.