The LivingSea
The new flick at the RochesterMuseum and ScienceCenter’s
Strasenburgh Planetarium is big and exciting. It’s so
good, it’s almost worth sitting through the Sting
music that accompanies it. Let’s see what the kids thought.
Oscar, what’s The Living Sea about?
Oscar (4 years old): Everything that’s living under the sea.
Anything
to add to that, Iris?
Iris (7): My favorite part was when they were swimming
through the little field of farmer jellyfish.
Farmer
jellyfish? What do you mean
by “farmer”?
Iris: They grow their own food instead of shocking it and
eating it.
Lila, what about you?
Lila (10): I like when they find the cuttlefish. And when the ship goes near all those huge waves.
You mean the Coast
Guard ship?
Lila: Yeah. It’s really cool.
Oscar, do you
remember the name of the Coast Guard’s rescue dummy?
Oscar: Um… Oscar!
Lila: Poor Oscar.
Oscar: Yeah, poor Oscar.
What’s good about
seeing the movie at the planetarium?
Lila: It’s cool at the planetarium because it’s like the
animals and stuff are right up in your face.
Iris: It’s so much like you’re really there. Except that
it’s on the ceiling.
Lila: It’s cool to see the waves come so close because it’s
like they’re hitting you.
Anything
else to add?
Oscar: It’s really cool because in the end they say, “We
rescued Oscar.”
For “LivingSea”
show times, visit movie times (noncommercial)
This article appears in Oct 18-24, 2006.
