Oceans

Disneynature | Release Date: April 22, 2010

7.6	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 22 Ratings

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DallasTApr 22, 2010

I guess I was expecting something new. Felt like it only lasted an hour. Still worth seeing on the big screen...to me anyway.

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ChadS.Apr 26, 2010

Is the marine iguana of the Galapagos Islands edible? Just curious. When a reflected rocket ascends in the eyes of this exothermic animal during its close-up(like an outtake from David Fricke's "Baraka"), the sea lizard brought me back Is the marine iguana of the Galapagos Islands edible? Just curious. When a reflected rocket ascends in the eyes of this exothermic animal during its close-up(like an outtake from David Fricke's "Baraka"), the sea lizard brought me back to the Bert Parks-serenaded komodo dragon of Andrew Bergman's "The Freshman", in which Clark Kellogg(Matthew Broderick) thought that the Gourmet Club(a secret organization of rich people who pay to dine on the last specimen of a soon-to-be instinct animal) was preparing themselves to eat. Too surreal to be true, the whole set-up did turn out to be a hoax, as part of a sting operation perpetuated by Carmone Sabatini(Marlon Brando) in conjunction with the FBI. The komodo dragon survives. Chicken is served. But in the real world, due to callousness and greed, people insist on killing and eating endangered species, some of which are featured in "Oceans", such as the green sea turtle, the bluefin tuna, and the fin whale, while some are not, like the chinook salmon, as if there was no tomorrow. In essence, the director of photography is playing with their food. It's hard to look at a pod of dolphins swimming off the coast of South Africa and not recall the Grand Guignol spectacle in Louie Psihoyos' "The Cove". Parents be forewarned: If your child couldn't handle the truth about Bambi's mother, the law of the ocean may leave them in tears. With no Miley Cyrus in sight, arguably, the film crew is no worse than those Taiji fishermen through their reluctance to intervene on behalf of the scampering, ocean-bound baby turtles, as they fall prey to the swooping gulls. Heavily narrated by Pierce Brosnan, you'll wish that the talking human animal would say something useful like, "Shoo! You there, shoo!"… Expand

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