Saturday was the unofficial anime meetup get-together (as opposed the official monthly meetup) and since this was a Cleveland month we went off to the Great Lakes Science Center.  This was probably my fourth time to the science center, but the first time that I went to the Imax Theater (and only the second Imax film I've seen).  Anyway, enough expostion, on with the review. 

The movie started in Santorini and gave and spent a lot time talking about the ancient people who lived there.  Many Beautiful  shots of this Mediterranean Island were show and it very much made one wish to visit the agean.  They showed the archologist putting old frescos together like puzzles and gave a description of the eruption that destroyed the city.  Finally towards the end of the movie they moved to Athens to talk about classical Greece a bit and to show a computer reconstruction of the Parthenon.

 

The Good:

Beautiful shots of Santorini and the Parthenon and the sea.  Also it was nifty to see all the buildings of the town on Santorini built on top of one another.  It seamed to get around in the town you did as much up and down as right and left.

The Bad:

The movie was little light on Infomation and they seemed to conflate the people of Santorini with the classical Greeks even though they were from different time peroids (700 year difference) and areas. I suppose it all depends on the meaning of Greek. Later during thier discussion of Classical Greece, they claimed that Athens wars ruined by war, which is not unreasonable in and of itself, but they don't say how?  (Such as the failed Syracuse expedition, or the Great plague that Ravaged Athens)

In conclusion: the Movie was a nice visually and it was nice to actually see the leftovers of what most likely inspired the Atlantis myth, but don't expect too learn much from a historical point.  And in the movie's defense, it needs be interesting for a general audience including children who most likely would not be interested in more detail.