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Oceans
A Disney Nature ecological documentary, filmed throughout the globe's mighty oceans. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan.
A meditation on the vanishing, weird and wonderful creatures of the aquatic world, Oceans sets out to meet the creatures of the sea and to show how prodigiously it teems with life. From giant whales, angry sharks, giant jellyfish to living fossils that call the deepest ocean beds home, Oceans boasts stunning deep-water photography utilising the latest underwater technologies.
Directed by Jacques Perrin ('L'empire du milieu du sud', 'The Travelling Birds'), Jacques Cluzaud ('Travelling Birds')
Written by Christophe Cheysson, Jacques Cluzaud, Laurent Debas, Stéphane Durand, Laurent Gaudé, Jacques Perrin, François Sarano
Documentary | 1hr 24mins | Rated (G) | Origin: France, Switzerland, Spain | Official Site »
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Oceans is as grand and loosely defined as its title. Ambitious and awe-inspiring, yes. Deep as the Pacific, no. First and foremost it's a triumph to look at. Its French filmmakers spent months tracking their underwater stars using the best new digital cameras, editing it with a view to keep the pace artfully maintained, as though they were in congruence with the oceans' swells and tides. Even for those who've overdosed on late-night wildlife porn, the team's voyeurism was rewarded by some unique, Oscar-winning performances: warrior-like crabs swarming on Australia's ocean floor, fish slipping into the folds of sharks' gills, dolphins voluntarily spinning through the air as though delivering a performance at an aquatic park.
If it wasn't for this stunning imagery, you could almost forgive the film for its not-so-subtle flaws: it leaps around the globe from South America to Africa, Australia and the South Pole with more gay abandon than a curious cuttlefish, lacking in context, narrative and purpose. Why are there so many crabs all charging in different directions? We don't get to find out. Instead we get Pierce Brosnan reading a script so saccharine it deserves to be sucked into a whirlpool.
"The ocean draws its secrets close," he sighs, as darkness encroaches. The sporadic eco-messages also feel like token additions. "The question is not, 'what is the ocean but who are we?’” he concludes rhetorically, nonsensically, as the closing credits explode into a tune that ruins the natural poetry of the film. That's a shame because, visually, Oceans speaks for itself.
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Hollywood Reporter
What "Winged Migration" did for birds, Oceans does for all sorts of strange sea creatures in an ambitious, impressively filmed documentary.
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Los Angeles Times
Once Oceans' exhilarating visuals get going, it's easy to ignore the words. This really is a film that manages to show us things we've never seen and make what we have already seen look different and new.
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New York Times
The filmmakers work tirelessly to parallel their undersea world with the larger universe, offering genteel reminders of our mutual dependence.
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TVNZ (Darren Bevan)
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Funny, touching, and amazing, Oceans truly is a majestic piece of cinema, which really needs to be seen on the big screen.
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Variety (USA)
Though there's a formlessness to it all, the wow factor will thrill the "Earth" crowd, making Oceans a surefire bet for families and nature lovers.
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A must see, some scenes will blow you away...
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