Herald rating: * * * *
Imax film
Director: Ben Stassen
Review: Tim Watkin
Alien Adventure is a wild ride. In a leap away from Imax's science and education films, Alien Adventure brings meaningless entertainment to the big, big screen. And it's in 3D.
The film follows the fortunes of the Glagoliths, aliens searching the universe for a new home. They stumble on Earth and, being a bunch of interstellar idiots, decide to explore what they think is an Earth city.
Only, it's a new high-tech theme park not yet open to the public. And, yes, they explore the rides.
What makes this so cool is that the rides are superbly created. They're fun ideas (the Arctic Adventure is through an ice-mining colony, the Kid Coaster through toys littered around a bedroom) and the 3D graphics are awesome.
Try looking away from the action - the detail is just as impressive in the farthest corner of the screen.
There are 103,680 frames of high-resolution images, which took 12 CGI animators 180,000 hours to produce.
Minor quibbles? The 3D headsets are bulky and, at barely 40 minutes, the film is short. But it's still worthwhile.
Made in Belgium, the Glagolith language is in fact ancient Walloon, so for any Walloon-speakers, this is the movie of a lifetime. For anyone else, it's a hell of a lot of fun.
Alien Adventure
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