The Universe: Catastrophes that Changed the Planets

October. 25,2011      
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The planets of our solar system have experienced epic catastrophes throughout their long history, both raining down from outside and bubbling up from within. We'll voyage back in time to investigate the violent events that profoundly shaped the planets, including earth itself. We'll witness stunning revelations about what transformed Mars into a barren, hostile desert...The disaster that changed Venus from temperate to hellish...The impact that blew away Mercury's mantle, turning it into a planetary core...A colossal disturbance that rearranged the orbits of the gas giants...Titanic impacts on Jupiter...And how a lost moon may finally explain Saturn's rings

Reviews

ManiakJiggy
2011/10/25

This is How Movies Should Be Made

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FuzzyTagz
2011/10/26

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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Hadrina
2011/10/27

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Nayan Gough
2011/10/28

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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