The recipe for a good IMAX movie is easier than making Jell-O: mix one part scenic footage, one part educational narration and one part dreamy music. Do that, and you've got a hit, just like "Journey Into Amazing Caves," the newest film to hit the Humphrey Imax Dome Theater at the Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells St..
Produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films -- the makers of "Everest," "Dolphins" and "The Living Sea" -- this newest journey takes the viewer into the bold world of underground cavers.
Like any good IMAX movie, the location shots make the movie. This globetrotting film dives from the Grand Canyon to the frozen ice caves of Greenland to the perilous underwater caves of Dos Ojos. Cavers Hazel Barton and Nancy Aulenbach boldly go where no one has gone before, searching for subterranean life that may lead to new drugs and antibiotics.
Dreamy rockers The Moody Blues supply the soundtrack to the film and somehow find a way to make their music even more mellow for the score. You'll recognize familiar snippets of music throughout this around-the-world journey.
A bit more action-packed than some of the earlier IMAX films, "Journey Into Amazing Caves" has its share of suspense and plot. But like every IMAX film, the best part is sitting back, looking at the pretty pictures and realizing that the protagonists have a much better job than you do.
"Journey Into Amazing Caves" opens Fri., March 30. For showtimes, click here.
Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.
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