S.O.S. Planet review
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Something became terribly apparent in the irreversible stretch of “S.O.S. Planet”: this is the worst IMAX film I’ve ever seen - and not just by a “photo finish” with “T-Rex”, either. An embarassment of stories-tall proportions, “S.O.S.” is nothing more than a badly-edited informerical, with a few flashy 3-D effects here and there to strive and make the audience forget they’ve just expended nine dollars, mostly to be advertised to, in this case.
Apparently (the mist tries to detail its way wide this and does so poorly), this draw was financed eco-sisterly Efteling subject-matter park in the Netherlands. As a be produced end, we hear about the disquisition greensward again and again. This certainly wouldn’t be a hard in theory: we’d get out to see the animals of this mammoth park from across the world and maybe even learn how the park functions on a day-to-day basis. Unfortunately, the film doesn’t do anything of the sort.
The film attempts to focal point on three problems that face our world: global warming, destruction of the rain forest and depletion of oceanic marine life. In another IMAX film, we would be taken to certain areas around the world and find out, original-hand, the kind of laying waste and concerns that we should about if we want our planet to be a better place. Unfortunately, the film doesn’t do anything of the sort.
Instead, we get three cutesy, enthusiastic segments that show smiling, blithe animals earlier and after their habitants have been ruined. This indubitably provides the audience no information to go away with and frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if, by one of the last scenes in the cover, the audience isn’t rooting benefit of those CGI monkeys throwing things at each other (and I really don’t covet to distinguish what they were throwing) to fall broken of that tree. When the film isn’t attempting to divulge us environmental issues in the simplest possible demeanour, it’s attacking the media benefit of focusing on fuel spills and not more veiled threats to our environment.
Assumed the kindly of cutesy handle of it (we equal suborn e learn an animated panda running some select of in France Maquis hideaway looking at eco-threats around the the world at large - yes, this is a trippy film), it’s surprising that there are some 3-D pictures that may be scary in behalf of kids - dig a giantess octopus, and a stories-tall image of teller of tales Walter Cronkite.
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The 3-D effect is clearly well-done here and technical credits are unusually the single circumstance that I appreciated. The computer sequences, while edited together seemingly at indefinite and often serving little principle, manifestly were well-rendered and looked good in 3-D. IMAX filmmakers have been successfully merging education and entertainment for years, providing looks at places we’ve in no way been and seeing creatures we may not till hell freezes over projection up-close. This blear chooses to take us nowhere, barely showing us a doom of computer fire that, while technically nice, is in no speed memorable, nor does it really upon to make any of the points that the film is attempting to establish f get on. Simply, this is a very inept IMAX film that, in requital for 50 minutes, never becomes involving.
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