This could have been an amazing film all the way through. Cameron at the helm, amazing underwater shots, some cool ideas. But the obnoxious kid scientists made me want to gag. I'm sure Disney put them there. "Wow, cool wow! It's so cool to be a scientist." And the insultingly fake voice overs that make you feel five years old. Ugh! Do we really need Disney making films anymore?
shareWhen the film first began I thought to myself why wasn't this more popular? It did become clear as the film got going. I appreciate the fact that it's trying to engage young people and plant the seeds that might lead kids to become scientists but this film began to feel like a tour of an exhibit at Disneyland or something with some of the commentary.
Still, there are some absolutely incredible visuals made all the more amazing by the fact that it's real stuff hidden deep in our oceans.
I vomited myself when I watched that ending, where the scientist chick is in some fantasy scenario on maybe Europa and is meeting alien life for the first time, and she holds her hand up to the glass and the alien does it back, in some gut churning E.T. saccharine frenzy. Hilariously awful.
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