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Starring: Dr. Michael Atkins,  Genya Chernaiev,  Dr. Jim Childress,  Pamela Conrad,  David L. Dubois, 
Directed By: Steven Quale, 
Rated: G (General Audience)
Release Date: 2005
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Format: Closed-captioned,  Color,  Dolby,  DVD-Video,  Widescreen,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about Aliens of the Deep

Description
Take a once-in-a-lifetime journey with Academy Award(R)-winning director James Cameron (Best Director, TITANIC, 1997) in ALIENS OF THE DEEP, and make contact with another world. This incredible underwater adventure gives you extraordinary glimpses of unbelievable creatures that live in an alien world in the deepest depths of the sea. Could these alien life forms be clues to life in outer space? It's an exciting exploration you'll not soon forget.~~(c)Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. and Walden Media, LLC ~~

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James Cameron takes another foray into the depths with a new deep-sea documentary. Following the shipwreck of Ghosts of the Abyss, Cameron focuses his abundant energies on where life is not powered by sunlight. These implications are taken a bit further, thanks to some dandy effects, on how life may develop in the ice-covered waters of Jupiter's moons. Some of the newly seen creatures are truly amazing: a fish with feet, shrimp that can swim between boiling hot steam and icy currents. Plus there's a cute creature that looks like something from an animator's portfolio: an albino octopus with fins. Like Ghosts, this film is significantly different on DVD. Both were presented in IMAX 3-D but are only 2-D on DVD; however, also included are extended versions, doubling the original's 45-minute run time. The added footage gets you more in-depth coverage of the crew and the missions. Cameron is also an expert host, showing his enthusiasm for the project ("I love this stuff!") while letting his younger scientist co-stars lead the way. (Ages 6 and older) --Doug Thomas

Customer Reviews for Aliens of the Deep

Watch it with the mute button on
James Cameron is a filmmaker, not a scientist. Despite his pretensions to the contrary, he is not "doing science" in this film. I watched the extended version, and only something like a quarter of the footage consisted of the admittedly beautiful undersea photography. Visually, this is a fine film. The problem is the relentlessly irritating dialog. The phoney, self-indulgent, cliche-ridden conversations that make up most of the "human interest" portion of the film make every minute a chore to watch. The effect is similar to that of having to listen to a group of strangers having a deeply personal conversation amongst themselves that doesn't involve you, except more stilted and lifeless.

Also, James Cameron needs to learn that not everyone is as in love with him as he is with himself and that not everyone cares to see and hear him pat himself on the back for being such a pioneering underwater explorer.

I am not joking when I recommend watching this with your television's mute button activated. Other than some silly bloviating by Cameron and Co. about how this is just like exploring other planets, there is no substantial science in this movie (and the science that is there is highly speculative). You do yourself no favors by listening to anything said by anyone in this film. Just enjoy the pretty pictures.Aliens of the Deep

More Time Spent Showing People & Equipment Than Marine Life
This was a terrible movie. They spent more time showing the scientists reacting to marine life (such intelligent comment such as "awesome!") than the marine life itself. The director should have realized that viewers aren't watching the movie to look at the scientists or watch the scientists photograph each other in their vehicles - we want to look at the marine life. If they had just done a short segment showing what equipment they were using and then showed only the marine life with narration describing what we were seeing it would have been decent. This was just irritating and terrible.Aliens of the Deep

I fell asleep watching it
I am a fan of marine biology and oceanography. Having grown up watching episodes of National Geographic, Nature, Discovery and the Animal Planet, I was looking forward to seeing this documentary. I thought to myself, "Wow, James Cameron has lots of money so this is going to be an awesome documentary!" I was wrong. The footage is clear alright, especially of the people. The film clocks in at under 2 hours, and only about half of it focuses on deep sea life, with only about 10 different animals shown. I can even name them; the Dumbo Squid, a bigger squid that goes unnamed, white crabs, shrimp swimming among hydrothermal vents, tube worms, a fish that looks like a grouper, a rattail fish, a crynoid, lots of bacteria, and an unnamed transparent wispy creature that resembles a jellyfish without tentacles. In fact, the film features a larger selection of humans than oceanlife. Too much of it focused on the work done by humans to journey into the deep; which is fine as an extra feature, but not as the main component of the film. All in all, watch the Blue Planet episode on the Deep Sea; it is much more interesting and educational.Aliens of the Deep

Great if you like shots of people instead of ocean life
Big disappointment. A few spectacular shots. Way too much focus on the crew. Constantly seeing shots of somebody's face peeping out at the sea life, instead of actually seeing the sea life. Way too many schoolgirl level comments. Turned it off after half an hour. I'm guessing they are keeping the good stuff for another DVD or TV show.Aliens of the Deep

boring
This movie was not good. The main focus seemed to be the people and not the sea life. There are a lot of other deep sea documentaries that are really interesting. I'd recommend any other deep sea film before this one.Aliens of the Deep

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