One of my all time favorites.

Nice effects though.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Before I watched this film, I assumed that it would be similar to a nature show on BBC or the Discovery Channel. Indeed, much of the film looks like it belongs in a standard nature documentary. However, the narration is unlike anything I've ever encountered in a nature documentary before. It's more "artsy" than scientific. For me, the impressive shots of ocean animals that fill the film were ruined by vacuous narration.If you want beautiful imagery accompanied by narration that describes how gorgeous what you're seeing is, this film is for you. If you want to see a documentary about ocean wildlife, look elsewhere.

Lots of interesting moments:* a clash of two "armies" of crabs;* ships in waves;* dolphins "surfing" on waves;* a walrus female taking care of her infant, holding it on her chest, like by hands;* a slime turning back onto its foot.And scary moments:* the remnants of the Chinese soup - shark still alive;* shopping cart & a seal & coast of fires;I did not see much new, almost nothing, but it shows lots of beauty/emotional views.The movie claims a mission in the meaning of "let's save the nature". But instead of any "active helping to the nature", libertarians would rather claim "Stop making the problem worse!" So I do not completely agree with the view of their mission.The "passive help" approach would point the cause much more accurately: Us. Just stop the wasting: Then, the nature will take the chance/opportunity itself, and will get prosperous again.Any "cleaning" of what happened already, is foolish, in this moment. We have to point the root cause first: Us, the source.

Pierce Brosnan's sickly sweet, schmaltzy narration is the nail in the coffin for this abysmal waste. The film has no coherence and seems to want to present itself as a fairytale like dance with humanity as the wicked witch, sea life the ingenue desperately trying to escape its clutches. It's such a waste that so much effort, talent and breathtaking imagery can just be flittered away in such a pointless dramatisation when the images speak for themselves. Not recommended for anyone, certainly not the children which are Disney's usual target, far superior alternatives already exist. Avoid or watch in French with no subtitles.

harbored a certain higher expectation to watch the film in the local cinema on account of that the ticket was rather difficult to obtain (I had tried a third time to finally have attained the ticket for a day after), also in China, it's not so usual that a documentary could enjoy a long-run success in the cinema (a steady augmentation weekly).The screen was a generic 2D without IMAX, which should be a perfect option for the sake of the ocean grandeur, and the premise was appealing and epiphanic, I was immediately captured by the beauty of nature and was downrightly ready to immerse myself into an eye-opening voyage.Then bit by bit I noticed that there were not quite a chunk of eye-opening creatures there, having a biological background, I must admit few are beyond my knowledge and the which was worse that it hardly jumped out of the remit of the national geography channel, plus the covering realm is way too large for a single feature, so every time I had grown my interest and attention to the specific specie, the subject leaped to another one at once, so after several rounds, my feeling of indigestion caused a sense of fatigue. I cried out loud inside that please linger a little bit longer! Nevertheless, the vastness of oceans is a mission impossible to conquer, a deeply sincere summoning of saving-the-world is banal but at least well-intentional (the cruelty of net-harvest and procuring of shark fins is manipulative but intensely appalling.Visually jaw-dropping, the effort behind the team alone does a spate of standing ovations! I emphatically admire what a mammoth patience and audacity human beings could achieve!