Our Universe

OUR UNIVERSE 3D

The Narrator's voice that often has no break from one segment to the next seems to match the continuous flow of the 3D modeling of planets which are quite realistic, giving a sense of how much is packed into this compact special.

In this 50 minute visual tour of the solar system and beyond made in 2013, every major part of our solar system is shown from space and the surface, including major moons and Pluto in its icy Kuiper belt, showing main features, some animated, while explaining facts you may know and some you don't. It seems Mars uses actual photos taken from the surface, made 3D.

The unending variety of computer animation is of course not photo real, but pretty good and gets close sometimes, particularly close views of planets from space that fill much of the screen. Yet in modern fashion, it's all in no particular order, as if to increase variety.

More inspiring are what appear to be actual photos of deep space, given 3D treatment. Nebulas that start to appear after a few planets, and later galaxies.

I think there are more even than in IMAX: Hubble 3D, which were overseen by scientists to be accurate in the 3D. The ones in Our Universe appear as good, maybe ones left out.

There is more packed into this 50 minutes than you'd think, so seems longer or more filling than many a feature movie in a sense. Rarely a dull or wasted moment - forgiving the slightly dusty or goofy made-up rover on some planets, like a 6-wheeled solar beetle whose two eyes on top of its square head seem a little too human.

I finished not wishing they had done one thing more or that they had missed anything, and is pretty up to date, with nothing complicated. Except again being overwhelmed by the ridiculous size of infinity, myself in the middle, and the amount of incomprehensible galaxies.