On Jan. 11, Seattle’s Child and the Pacific Science Center welcomed the magazine’s readers to a free showing of the IMAX film Journey to the South Pacific 3D at the Center. The co-sponsored screening drew a full audience from around the Puget Sound, and the young attendees were encouraged to submit a review of the film. The best review, chosen by Science Center staff, earned its writer, 6-year-old Ali Drzewiecki, an annual family membership to the Center. Congratulations Ali! And now, for your enjoyment, her review:
Hi! My name is Ali. I really liked Journey to the South Pacific 3D because it was so fun to watch with the 3D glasses.
I saw a lot of different types of fish. I saw a whale shark, some fish, and some seahorses, and the orangutan crab made me laugh! I also saw mommy and baby turtles and I remember when the little fish gobbled up the stuff on the bellies of the manta rays. The whale shark was my favorite because I like the decorations on it. They had some white spots on them and what looked like little flower shapes on them. They were very cool!
The setting of the movie was in the water and on the beaches around the islands of the South Pacific. The islands are far, far away from us. It’s north of Australia where my Auntie Anne is from and where her family lives. My mommy and I looked it up on a map.
Here’s what happened in the movie that I saw. Jawi is a little boy and he went on a trip on a boat for two months. That’s a long time away from home. I wouldn’t want to do that. He saw a bunch of animals in the water and kept turtle eggs safe from animals that like to eat baby turtles. Jawi swam with some friends in the water and had a camera to take pictures of the animals he saw in the water that were very cool. He saw a tiny seahorse on some coral that was just like the coral and he almost didn’t spot it. Jawi also swam with the whale sharks and he found out that they are not very scary and do not want to chase you or eat you.
I really liked the orangutan crab the best because it was really hairy looking and crawling around. I love to eat crab and I thought this crab was funny.
The most interesting part to me was when they showed the dynamite splashing in the ocean and ruining all the coral. It made me sad because all the fish’s homes were all wrecked. This was the part of the movie that I didn’t like because the fish can’t live there anymore.
I learned that it is not good to throw dynamite in the ocean to get fish. It kills all the fish and the coral and makes it gray, ugly, and gross. It is like littering the water and I don’t like littering. It is not nice, respectful, or being kind to our Earth. So the people who throw dynamite in the water are not caring about the Earth. We should all want to keep the Earth clean so that it can be pretty and everyone can enjoy it. We should also want to keep our oceans clean so that Jawi and his family and friends can have something good to eat and keep fishing for big fish.
Yes, I would recommend this movie to my friends because it was a great movie and I liked seeing all the creatures under water. It was cool and the 3D glasses made it look real, like when the big fish came. When the yellow fish came on screen, it looked like they were swimming right towards me and it felt like I was swimming under water, too. I was actually moving my arms like I was swimming during the movie because it felt like I was actually there with the fish.
I would give this movie five stars out of five because it was the best movie I’ve ever seen that was not a cartoon. I think everyone should go see this movie because it’s actually a really, really good movie!
Photos:
View of the islands of West Papua from the top of Mount Pindito. Credit: ©2013 IMAX Corporation and MacGillivray Freeman Films / Photographer: Shaun MacGillivray.
Jawi Mayor (center), a 13-year-old island boy who gets a closer look at his backyard reefs during an inter-island adventure aboard the Kalabia. Credit: ©2013 IMAX Corporation and MacGillivray Freeman Films / Photographer: Barbara MacGillivray.
The waters of West Papua and the Coral Triangle are considered the most diverse marine ecosystem in the world, with more 2,000 species including clown fish. Credit: ©2013 IMAX Corporation and MacGillivray Freeman Films / Photographer Michele Hall.
