National Parks Adventure

Generally speaking if you enjoy films from the Banff film festival you will probably enjoy this one. Gorgeous scenery, a personal story, and a general overview of the parks.

If you are interested in watching insufferable, privileged white people tooling around in a Subaru and treating the national parks like their personal hipster playground, this film is for you.

While the scenery and cinematography were quite breathtaking, this 45 minute documentary lacked direction. The doc somewhat follows a group of people as they trek around a few national parks. I felt the special could have done better to highlight more parks and stuck to the history and general info, the people weren't necessary.

It is a really short documentary so we can't really see much of the great number of amazing national parks in America. Yet what we see is beautiful. Some amazing shots that make one want to just get up and go on a trip. Especially the Yellowstone park. In addition the documentary is not just about parks but about a group of people who do rock climbing there. not surprising since it is called "adventure". I liked the balance as there is not too much of it so most of the time one still watches the parks and at the same time they also offer some great shots such as their mountain bike riding. Loved the beautiful ice shots at the end and adorable prairie dogs which got a few minutes footage.

I was disappointed. I went to the IMAX 3D theater expecting to see something immersive like Hubble or Deep Sea. Sorry - not even close. 50% or so was not even shot in 3D (are they trying to kid us?). The entire Redwood and Yellowstone scenes, all historic reenacting, and most of the "three guys on road trip" scenes are 2D only. Why? Letting apart the extremely well shot ice palace and some river shots, the best 3D footage was probably the historic 3d still photos.

Ok, there are some stunning areal shots (however naturally not well suited for 3D immersion).

Aside from the photography, the story and timeline is a mess, plus we see a crowd of young fun seekers treating nature and indigeneous sanctuaries without any respect.

If you are a 3D enthusiast watch any other IMAX short or Avatar (1/2). If you want a nature documentary, watch BBC's planet earth instead.