Africa: The Serengeti (No Rating)
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As always with IMAX films, the plot of this documentary isn't nearly as vital as the sheer spectacle and sensory depth charge that comes with your immersion in the wraparound screen. When the nostril of a hippo is larger than your seat, and when you can hear birds picking bugs off an animal's back, there's a real tendency to live in the moment. That's why Africa: The Serengeti is worth a dozen National Geographic specials. Tracing the annual migration of million-member herds of wildebeests from Tanzania to Kenya and back, the film alternates aerial vistas of lush volcano craters with in-your-face, assembly-line shreddings of prey by lions, hyenas, and vultures. The epic struggle and carnage displayed in the crossing of the crocodile-infested Mara River is by itself worth the price of admission. As narrator James Earl Jones tells us, the Serengeti is "a place where it is still the morning of life, a place where the great herds still run free." (Britt Robson)
Review by Britt Robson
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