Oceans review (disney movie) add yours.... (1 Viewer)

[salty65gal]

It was a good documentary. However, most everybody knows whales eat krill and sharks eat seals. Absolutely nothing about corals or any reef footage. Most of the movie is about larger animals like whales.

There are some great shots in the film, could have been edited better, and being 1 hour and 40 minutes long- they missed the best part of the ocean: The reef and reef fishes.

 

[Merkurfan]

I have not seen it yet, but I suspect it will be a string of movies like Discovery (or was it history?) where they will come out with movies on other parts of our planet.. I'd like to see 1:40:00 devoted to the reef on the big screen.

Your review however has changed my mind about going to see this one. No reef? no go for me.

 

[kcooley]

"normal" people see reef documentaries and at the end all they have to say about it is "so are they plants or animals?" if they even made it to the end.

But for "us", that would rock!

 

[Merkurfan]

I've got a few through netflix.. I now know why brown is always a easy color coral to get. (most of them are) the real colors in the reef movies I have seen are the fish.

 

[kcooley]

most reef movies i have seen are over 10 years old. poor quality cameras.

if there were a movie in HD with really nice camera's to get that real color then they would have something worth charging admission.

 

[coralreefer]

Yeah, you're making me change my mind too. Maybe I will just watch planet earth and blue planet instead...

 

[Jager]

i thought it was pretty good, about what i was expecting, having seen their Earth production last year.

I was a bit disappointed with the lack of coral reef in it being that it is a large part of under water life and attractions but they did have a lot to cover since it was called Oceans not Coral Reefs.

It shows some of thre reef in it, when they show the crabs, blue regals, a few other tangs and some butterflys. Gotta say i laughed at the mantis shrimp scene when it got pissed at the crab for invading. The fighting conch in it was huge.

Also saw a few lion fish, some frog fish, a bunch of cuttle fish and eels. The rest was mostly, as previously stated, the Ocean in all its glory and beauty.

I give it a solid B+ for good footage.

Discovery does have some newer documentarys specializing on the reef, cant look back now but someone said they havent seen a newer film on reefs. Their documentary was in the last year or 3 and it really is quite good, im sure you can google it or order the dvd from them, they always sell their shows on dvd's.

 

[CycleDeez]

"so are they plants or animals?"

Oprah says they are both

 

[JimmyOrangeSeed]

Oprah says they are both

hahah! Silly Oprah......

I still want to see this movie even though there is no reef footage. I wonder if this will ever come out on redbox :nuts:

 

[pramberg]

Some of the footage is amazing, but there was no cohesiveness with the story. Or really no story at all, kind of jumped all over the place. Less depressing than Earrth, and they didn't hammer in humans effect on the ocean too much. I'd say it's worth seeing during a matinee when it's cheaper, or when it makes it's way to the dollar theater.
I'm sure it will make it's way to Redbox. I know they carried Earth.

 

[salty65gal]

I expected SOME reef footage. Come on now, for each ticket sold the first week they are donating $ to save the reefs, should have been to save the whales....

Yes, they did show a lion fish gulp down a chromis, some clowns in an anenome, about 15 seconds of butterflies/angels and a couple poor shots of tangs. I was disappointed, but life goes on. :goldfish:

 

[NandKBlock]

Yeah, was planning to take the kids this weekend but not any more since there's no reef. I wasn't sure they could make it through the whole documentary anyway and if there's nothing in it for me well then... No movie for us.

 

[Mutu]

Well my wife and I took both my kids to it (2 and almost 4 years old) and they both sat through the movie, occasionally spouting off what things were "Big whale!" "Shark!" etc etc. I know they enjoyed the movie. I enjoyed the movie, it was worth the cost ($15 for the 4 of us).

Sure, not a lot of reef action but given it was called Oceans I was not expecting much reef. All in all it was a good movie/documentary. And while there was no plot/story I really was not expecting one. It was an interesting collage of video about various different ocean life forms.

 

[RaysReef]

I just bought the IMAX Under the Sea Blue-Ray 40 mins long and its probably the best quality HD and footage of mix reef and fish out there...I would have liked another narrator *Jim Carrey* though, lol

I also got Discovery Planet Ocean *4 Disk DVD* seen a few and its a mix of old and new footage, very informative.

 

[Soltaker]

Thankd for saving me a trip and some $$$$$ :biggthumpup: