It seems that documentaries just seem to get better and better as time goes by. The old ‘classroom doccos’ we saw when we were at school just doesn’t cut it anymore, and instead we get doccos with spectacular footage like we find here in Oceans.
Directors, Jacques Perrin (L’empire du milieu du sud, Winged Migration) and Jacques Cluzaud (Les ailes de la nature, Winged Migration) set the world alight with Travelling Birds and now they have even managed to out-do that with the spectacular Oceans.
Oceans doesn’t just tell you about the many wonderful creatures that call our oceans home, it takes you right there amongst them with footage that simply has to be seen to be believed. The footage of seeing birds dive on fish is spectacular while the shots of killer whales killing seals may be graphic but is also a once in a lifetime thing for the public to see. And to their credit the directors don’t just focus on one area of the ocean, they go of the tropics of South America, to Australia and even to the Arctic, and it’s not all about fish, you truly get to see a wide variety of animals.
Oceans is ten times better than the woeful Whales & Dolphins: Tribes Of The Oceans 3D. This is a stunning docco that takes the viewer right down into the ocean so you can see things you have never seen before. This is one docco you shouldn’t miss.
Year: 2009
Director: Jacques Perrinm Jacques Cluzaud
Stars: N/A
Classification: G
Runtime: 104 mins
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