Blue Planet

August 8, 2007

Rated: NR Runtime: 81 min Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

One of the interesting side effects of High Definition televisions is that people will watch pretty much anything as long as it’s pretty enough. How else can you explain the success of Sunrise Earth on DiscoveryHD? This has limits though when you can make a direct comparison between two shows as you’re gonna pick the one that’s prettier. Unfortunately for Blue Planet it’s gonna get compared to Planet Earth, and it falls way short. It really isn’t fair at all since Blue Planet is just a converted IMAX movie while Planet Earth was shot in HD using modern technology. But, it is what it is.

Blue PlanetBlue Planet doesn’t have much of a story, but it does show Astronauts training for a shuttle mission where they’ll be repairing a satellite. We also get to see the first space walk by an American woman, and the use of an jetpack in space. Now if it just had lasers.. and if they just went more than 1/2 mph. The narrator has views on global warming that sound more like they came from Al Gore than from science in 1990, and apparently in the last 17 years we should have killed off the rain forest, melted the ice caps and driven to extinction everything but our housepets. Or maybe I’m just being too critical.

Look at it this way. Planet Earth is a huge boxed set that will set you back lots of cash. If you just want to have something on hand that will show off that shiny new plasma TV then Blue Planet might be just the ticket. It is pretty, it did have some interesting information, and if you don’t mind the global warming stuff it was entertaining. Plus, there’s a bonus movie from 1985 that lets you see some groovy haircuts in HD!

Posted by John | Filed Under 3 Stars, DVD, Documentary, HD-DVD, NR, Toni Myers, Walter Cronkite 

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3 Responses to “Blue Planet”

  1. junglejim13660 on January 2nd, 2008 12:43 am

    I currently have Planet Earth on HD DVD. I wouldn’t mind adding this to my HD collection for my son.

  2. John on January 2nd, 2008 12:08 pm

    It’s still in the prize library, just try to be the first person to comment on next Monday’s free movie giveaway and it can be yours. :)

  3. jetgiantfan on February 6th, 2008 2:52 pm

    I would love to have Planet Earth in HD DVD to watch on my soon-to-be obsolete, Toshiba HD DVD player. Then again, who can be sure of anything in these crazy format wars!

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