Stephanie Rhoades

If you go in knowing what you’re in for, you can really enjoy this experience. 1) Your tickets tell you to arrive half an hour early, but they don’t start letting anyone in until their ticketed time. Be prepared to stand and wait if you want to get in close to ticket time. Which brings me to: 2) Read the fine print on your ticket. You have an entire hour to explore the venue, but you will not need that long. The AI robots aren’t exceptionally interesting, probably because it’s next to impossible to hear them over the crowds. 3) Otherwise, it’s basically just like wandering around a brand new, upscale arena. There are food and beverage options, but they are priced accordingly. 4) The film starts an hour after your ticket time. If we could do it over again, we would have showed up a half hour before the film time, not the ticket time! 5) The visuals in the film are stunning and well worth experiencing. Just brace yourself for a sort of mind numbingly trite storyline. The film didn’t NEED a plot. The voiceover narrative, which irritatingly runs throughout the entire 50 minute film, is grating. It speaks volumes for the experience of being in the theater that there were times I was awed enough to momentarily forget how much I hated the narration. However you feel about the human impact on the planet, I doubt this film is going to change your mind in either direction. The framing plot seems wasteful of time that could have been better spent with more enjoyable visuals of planet earth. At the end of the day, no preachy beat-you-over-the-head speech is going to advocate for environmental responsibility and stewardship better than just allowing nature to speak for itself. It’s the pure power of the visuals of the natural world that drives the audience to wonder and awe. And it is truly spectacular. Keep all of that in mind and you’ll be able to have a better time than we did. The potential is there.