Oceans, The Movie

After school gets out, I am planning to go see Disney's new feature film, Oceans. After spending several weeks doing an in depth study on the ocean in multiage, I am excited to see a film about the beauty and wonder of our world's oceans. This would be an excellent film for the whole family to go see this summer and to extend your child's learning after our study this year. Read what movie critic Liam Lacey from Globe and Mail writes about it:

"There are two recurrent reactions in watching the new documentary, Oceans: First, how on earth did they get that shot? Second, who knew we were sharing the planet with so many beautiful and bizarre creatures?

The answer to the first question is time, technology and patience. French team of Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud (the team behind the 2001 film, Winged Migration) spent seven years, four of them in gathering footage on more than 70 expeditions. They used cameras that allowed them to move intimately among the fish and animals in the ocean, sometimes taking months to capture a brief segment.

The movie opens with children scrambling across sand dunes, and one boy stopping to look at the ocean: “What is the ocean?” asks narrator Pierce Brosnan. The answer, he says, is that you have to immerse yourself in the ocean to understand it."

Read the full review.