Just average
The usual BBC quality just isn't here . An annoying host,multiple high speed scenes,and a very dumbed down script.
There are some beautiful scenes but it feels like it was written for children. Underwater scenes of the narrator in scuba gear ,talking to the camera are very annoying.
It's not unwatchable,but I have no desire to rewatch the shows.
Solid Production
This is a solid production and was enjoyable to watch. I absolutely loved the time lapse sequences and there are some great underwater shots. I would say 4 stars and not five because it does not quite live up to the great Planet Earth, Africa, Frozen PLanet or Life but still worthy of being in your collection. I actually found the narrator refreshing and it cetrainly did not hurt the production at all. Overall there are not quite as many jaw dropping shots as seen before in the epic works. Highly recommended.
RIVETING! As close as most might get, do not miss the chance
I put this up on my second screen, intending to do odds and ends on my primary screen, but very quickly found myself giving the film my undivided attention.
In no way do I agree with any prior criticisms of either the underwater voice, which I found totally appropriate, of the use of high speed photography, which was both essential and in my view, ultra professional. Some of the stuff shown here has never before been captured (e.g. parrot fish building its nightly mucus page) and other stuff just blew my mind, such as the rare coral spawning, the launching of male and female eggs from coral.
I had no idea, plain and simple. This film is educational, entertaining, and enchanting.
This is, as another reviewer has noted, three movies in one, to which I would add: 185 minutes, with each of the three segments roughly 60 minutes in length.
For myself, I could only marvel and the hundreds of hours it must have taken, of patient seemingly endless...
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