As the title "Journey Into Amazing Caves" already tells you, this is a documentary about caves. Unfortunately the focus is not on the interesting world in terms in there in terms of flora and fauna, but instead shows us what kind of leisure activities we can have in there. I am generally not a friend of the idea that we should step into and discover territories that nature obviously created with the intent to stay untouched, but this is just my approach. If you have another one, you will maybe enjoy this documentary a lot more than I did. Oh yeah, this is IMAX you know, so it is as always a movie that runs for roughly 40 minutes and got made by a duo of filmmakers who have quite some experience in the field. Instead, I suggest you to check out Werner Herzog's full feature take on the subject. That one is more rewarding and it has Werner Herzog. Enough said. As for this one here, i do not really recommend the watch unless you're an IMAX completionist.

I first saw this IMAX film in Sydney on my trip down under. Not only was it amazing to see some of the most beautiful footage on a screen that is over 8 stories high, but the story was also very interesting to me. It had some incredible climbing scenes...112F in the Grand Canyon, 500' down into ice caves in Greenland, Bats in Georgia, and underwater cave diving in the Yucatan. It not only deals with the sport of caving, but one of the ladies in the film is a micro-biologists who is collecting rare extremophiles, microorganisms that live in extremely harsh environments, for scientific research. It was narrated by Liam Neeson with music by The Moody Blues. I bought it on DVD, knowing it would lose a lot visually going from the IMAX screen to my TV. I'm glad I did, because it has a "making of" documentary that was just as interesting as the IMAX movie, showing both the technical aspects of what went into the shoot as well as the personal side of those involved.

I went into this movie expecting:1) Excellent Cinematography worthy of the IMAX format, and2)amazing caves.These elements Ruined the film:-sketchy, condescending, quasi-scientific "plot" (EXTREMOPHILES? give me a break!)annoying, unnecessary "characters", poorly developed,-worst of all, the Moody Blues songs, which were cringe-inducingthroughout. This is good music, and has been for 30 years; butwhoever did the sound for this film is obviously a proud graduateof the "way too much is almost enough" film school.The star of this feature should have been the caves, (maybe if youbring ear-plugs?), but instead we get:-a spelunking hi-tech internet kindergarden teachers assistant,and-a daredevil microbiologist, who pays lip service to a hazycure-for-all-illnesses pipe dream, but from the tiny amount of realinformation about what she is doing, I think she is actually doingbiological weapons research, but doesn't know it. On secondthought, that would be too interesting.TheTitle of this movie should have been: "ExtremeSports and 'Don't Worry We Hate Geology Even MoreThan You Do' Present: The WonderTwins Conquer Cartoon Cavern! Starring the Voice of Liam Neeson! ROCK with the Moody Blues!"

My daughter Maria and I were thrilled with so many scenes, especially:the kayaks plummeting down waterfalls while searching for new caves to explore;the scary heights of caves in the middle of cliffs only reachable by rappelling and/or crossing rivers by rope many, many feet high up;descending into ice caverns where you hear the icicles falling and the glacier groaning;and finally, the holding of our breath as they swam under water through body width openings in search of microorganisms, which was their main goal.The plane/helicopter rides were breathtaking also - seemingly going to crash you right into the side of a mountain.Their adventures in Iceland and North America, for the main sake of finding medical cures for the future, will never be forgotten.(And, if my daughter and wife aren't reading this, the ladies were sure cute, besides being brave, dedicated, athletic and intelligent.)