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Disney is once again at it, creating rapturous sea imagery in âOceans,â their second cinematic effort distributed through there newly minted Disneynature Studios. If you are glued to the National Geography or Animal Planet channels, you wonât see anything different or innovative here, but what you will see is never before seen footage of sea creatures that we never even knew existed. That one fact makes all the difference in the world.
Documentaries donât really have scripts, but the âplotâ here is the chronicling of the mysteries of the sea the way no human has ever seen it before. Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud dive deep into the very waters that sustain all of mankindâexploring the harsh reality and the amazing creatures that live within. Actor Pierce Brosnan, an active environmentalist, narrates some of the most fantastic and surreal scenes on Earth.
The filmmakers began my sea experience through the eyes of a boy as he lays his eyes on the beach for the very first time. Heâs overwhelmed. Brosnan begins speaking about what questions the boy, as well as us, might have about the crystal, deep blue sea.
What is remarkable and astounding is the onerous production in making a doc like this. Filmmakers traversed all five of the Earthâs oceans and devoted two full years to the preproduction process. That was followed by four years of shooting, with 75 excursions to dozens of the planetâs most untouched spots. It took nearly another year of postproduction to winnow down the 480 hours of footage. Overall, the task took seven years to create all for the price of a movie ticket.
Many of the sites visited where in Latin America such as Costa Rica, Panamá, Argentina, Galapagos, Venezuela and Mexico. The beauty that still lies there is ethereal.
For a mere 83 minutes, âOceansâ manages to extract some emotions from me by putting me in the middle of the action with a great white shark shredding to pieces a lovely sea lion, or watching a symphonic ballet of traveling tuna and awing me with the spectacle of exotic creatures that looked like something out of a Phillip K. Dick novel – The Blanket Octopus, The Spanish Dancer, The Manta Shrimp, The Ribbon Eel and the Leafy Seadragon.
This is beyond art, it is the best nature film Iâve ever seen of the sea. Oceans along with IMAX: Hubble 3D are by far the best documentaries of the year.
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Rated: PG
Release Date: 2010-04-23
Screenplay: Christophe Cheysson, Jacques Cluzaud
Official Website: http://disney.go.com/disneynature/oceans/