Nice to view with kids. Good visuals to learn about the animals in the film for children.

i loved it. and i love laughing at all the haters.

Only reason I watched it was for an assignment besides that I would never have given such a film a second glance or first for that matter.Do yourself a favor and look up something similar from National Geographic!

Good from an educational view point to gain familiarity with the region. The musical scores were a bit too much with the tones of "spectacular awesomeness". The narration left much to be desired. Overall it was ok.

CAN'T STAND THE MUSIC!!!!! I totally agree with this video being very intellectualy boring. the visuals are really nice and all, but the actual "science" of this video is really bad. It states the obvious. It is really hard not to become disenchanted with it after ten minutes.

I wish I would have reviewed the reviews before watching this. In rebuttle to those that say if you dont have anything nice to say, than dot say it all, I wish I had read all the bad things people have written about it, because than I wouldn't have wasted my time. My biggest issue: WHERES THE SCIENCE? Was this video visually stunning, yes, was there any explanation as to what I was looking at, no. Okay, there was an explanation, but I can already tell the difference between a desert and the sea, so when they pointed out those things out, I was already way ahead of them.

Some people have reviewed it as being geared toward idiots or children. Others have complained about the narration and the soundtrack. They are all correct.
I am guessing that this was originally developed for the Imax market, which explains it's juvenile slant. It seems that everything of this nature in the US has been dumbed down for the kiddies...go to the Smithsonian and see the exhibits hosted by Elmo if you don't believe me. I think the last guy that tried to aim his work toward an adult audience was Jacques Cousteau.
The narration is like some kind of corny Speedy Gonzales on heroin, slow and deliberate accent and puntuation wavering between an attempt at real science and anthropomorphizing the situations. Overall it comes off as just pathetic.
Add to that the ridiculous music track trying to build some kind of false tension and, well, it is what it is.
The photography is pretty, and, as a biologist who has worked in the Sea of Cortes since 1979 it does capture it nicely in a very brief and superficial way.
I stick by my first impression...turn the sound off, put on some music that you enjoy, prepare yourself your favorite adult beverage or herbal smoke, and enjoy it for what it is.