Friday
13Feb2009
Movie Review - 'Under the Sea 3-D'
Friday, February 13, 2009 at 1:15AM | Under the Sea 3-D
Narrated by Jim Carrey  |
The new IMAX film, Under the Sea 3-D is everything you'd expect it to be while delivering nothing you'd ever think you'd see. There have been nature films for decades, and since Jacques Cousteau first went underwater in the 1940s, the rules haven't changed much. IMAX has been bringing us 3-D educational films for probably a decade or more. So in Under the Sea, you know you're going to watch beautiful nautical creatures in their natural environment.
Where the film surprises you is in what species it follows. The setting is everything, so IMAX takes us to Puapua New Guinea, which narrator Jim Carrey tells us is home to some of the most varied and most plentiful species of marine life in the world. And they don't disappoint.
The odds are against you ever having come face to face with any of these creatures, or certainly most of them. The live around coral reefs, and part of the point of this entire exercise is to inform us that the reefs are dying because of rising temperatures. The Great Barrier Reef, for example, is another IMAX subject, and it is apparently on the rebound after years and years of neglect.
Of course, if the reef dies, the animals that live there die, too. And if that happens in the waters of New Guinea, think of how many species would just cease to exist.
Watch the Under the Sea 3-D trailer
Reader Comments (2)
This looks very promising and the visuals in the trailer are stunning!
I didn't know this existed, but I'm going to see it for sure!