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'Deep Blue': A sadistic, dispiriting nature film
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

"Deep Blue" is possibly the most repugnant movie of the year and definitely not for kids. It doesn't mean to be (I think). Documentarians Andy Byatt and Alastair Fothergill have strong nature-lovers' credentials (apparently, they're with the BBC's Natural History Unit) and they probably intended to do for creatures of the sea what "Winged Migration" did for denizens of the air. But the filmmakers reveal they're more interested in the cycle of death than the circle of life. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
Nature documentary on the fight for survival among creatures of the sea. Filmmakers with the BBC's Natural History Unit focus on life and death near the surface — including polar bears and seals, sharks and killer whales — and also plunge their cameras into the depths to photograph creatures so rare they have never been seen before on film.

FILM FACTS ...

Miramax Films

'Deep Blue'

Directors: Andy Byatt and Alastair Fothergill
Narrator: Pierce Brosnan
Run time: 83 minutes
Release date: June 3, 2005
Rating: G, but with graphic footage of death.

On the web
Official movie site
View the trailer
Trailers require Quicktime

READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: D-
"This is a nasty, nauseating, dispiriting movie ... whatever you do, don't take the kids — no matter what the G rating says."