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Cirque Du Soleil: Journey of Man
Sony Pictures Classics
MPAA RATING: G for General Audiences
Starring
Ian McKellen,
Nicky Dewhurst,
Brian Dewhurst,
and
Anait Karagyezyan
In between the birth of a guileless boy and his rediscovery in old age of his childlike sense of wonderment, performers demonstrate incredible feats of coordination and physical boldness.
| GENRE(S): |
Musical
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Steve Roberts
Peter Wagg
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Keith Melton
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 30, 2001
Video: October 30, 2001
Theatrical: May 19, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
39 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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80
Variety
Lael Lowenstein
Tech elements, including music, lensing, costumes and production design are blazingly impressive and strikingly evocative on all levels.

80
Time
Richard Corliss
A film worthy of being displayed on a screen eight stories high.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
The big screen -- with that 3-D depth charge -- captures the strange magic of the "big top" Cirque in visual gulps.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Caroline Allen
The film still shines.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
The troupe deserves every bit of its worldwide renown, and it makes this Imax trip one well worth taking.
70
LA Weekly
Nicole Campos
Why 3-D?

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
It conveys plenty of wonder while mostly avoiding any saccharine preachiness.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A hokey, more-than-a-little-annoying mystical journey of self-discovery.

50
Miami Herald
Howard Cohen
Too bad Journey of Man, as a whole, is never as consistently compelling as that one visually arresting scene (with Yves Décoste and Marie-Laure Mesnage)
50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Cirque du Soleil's campy, crackbrained, and in no way unenjoyable 3-D IMAX pageant Journey of Man might be the oddest movie offering of the year so far.

40
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Unnecessary and silly.
25
New York Post
Hannah Brown
The ugly, witless pair of clowns who flit through the movie are emblematic of everything that is wrong with this dull, monumentally pretentious mess.
25
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Commits the cardinal sin of all bad IMAX films: It favors visuals over narrative, glitter over substance.

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