Humor is often more a priority than it should be, and long gaps of silence still populate the film, but its fairly forgivable considering the film's target demographic - young children on field trips and family vacations - aren't going to mind that most of the shark tidbits and factoids amount to 40-minutes of basic elementary-school marine biology. Thankfully, Aris is as kiddie-kitsch as talking animal hosts come, and will certainly appeal to many a knee-high rug-rat.

Were he and I watching it at an aquarium, or a massive IMAX screen, it might have even packed a bit more punch. IMAX documentary shorts are, for better or worse, synonymous with bite-sized, family-friendly grub, and Mantello's second film doesn't buck that trend. Whereas the latter bored us early and often, Sharks at least bared some teeth and kept us reasonably involved.

Let's just say he was not amused.)Д«ut Sharks 3D at least entertained he and his dear ol' dad a bit more than Ocean Wonderland. (After Aris made a joke about tucking his head in when a shark drew near, my son, now six, informed me that sea turtles can't pull their heads or fins into their shells. Other creatures distract him throughout, his camerawork lingers and lulls, his pacing falls somewhere between sleepy and apathetic, and his script could have used another few passes. Mantello seems unfocused throughout, though.

(It's a strange choice, I'll admit - the proverbial prey narrating a documentary about the ocean's most famous predator - but the sea turtle schtick seemed to work for my young son, so I suppose I'll let it pass.) Aris provides a nice, succinct history of sharks and their origins and, after a brief but unnecessary visit with some sea lions, introduces us to a variety of species, among them gray reef sharks, scalloped hammerheads, whale sharks, great whites and sand tiger sharks. Mantello's ever-faithful, ever-friendly Ocean Wonderland guide, Aris Turtle (voiced by Geoffrey Bateman), returns in Sharks to introduce viewers to his natural predators. After all, IMAX production tend to be fairly generic. Its script is spotty, Mantello's underwater footage is rather run-of-the-mill, the locales aren't exotic or extraordinary, what little information it dispenses is of the early grade-school variety, and the film itself seems more interested in pacifying aquarium guests for forty-two minutes than in educating, entertaining or engaging discriminating nature documentary buffs of all ages. That said, it still underwhelms and under-delivers. But it certainly stays true to its title - sharks, sharks and more sharks abound - and even offers younger viewers a more delightful tour of the ocean floor than Ocean Wonderland. No, it doesn't delve into fascinating waters, and no, it doesn't provide anything more than a barebones overview of the kings of the sea and the dangers they face at the hands of mankind. Unlike Ocean Wonderland 3D, director Jean-Jacques Mantello's second IMAX documentary short, Sharks 3D, at least lives up to its name. Then perhaps we will begin to protect them. Therefore, we first need to understand what sharks are really like before there can be a change in public perception. A semi-decent IMAX documentary short earns a scattershot 3D release.ДЄs many fellow conservationists have stated before, we protect only what we love.

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