Review of Water Life, the Big Blue Blu Ray DVD

Water Life was a series that showed on Discovery HD, it contains 26 chapters total, but can now be found in box sets on Blu-ray, or sold separately in single collections. The Big Blue is a collection of 5 individual documentaries from the series. It includes: The Big Blue, Under the Sea, The Underwater City, The Frontier of the Sea, and On the Seaside
 
We picked up this particular disc because whenever we are in Sam's Club, the HDTV's are always running the same spectacular underwater documentaries. When we asked about the DVD running, we were told that it was Water Life, and that they sell the discs in their DVD department.

I was at first thinking the disc would run around $50.00 or so, but when I came across one in the series, The Big Blue, for only $13.24, I scooped it up.

The entirety of the blu-ray disc is done rather well, but I was expecting more eye popping visuals considering it is done on Blu-Ray. Some images and scenes were rather mediocre, and what I'd generally expect from a standard DVD. Other scenes were done really well, with spectacular images and close ups of strange animal life that you normally would not expect to see from a sea documentary.

A favorite of both myself and my boyfriend was the rarer marine creatures that have adapted to their open, coral free environments. In this set you will find a lot of interesting, never before seen fish that are not only unusual, but completely unique to other sea creatures you would come to find.

The music presented in the 5 individual programs was repetitive, and boring, and if you continued to watch each program back to back, it puts you in a really bored mood, which could actually cause you to fall asleep. Some more interesting tunes should have been thrown into this documentary.

The monotone narrative also plays a major role into how bored you feel while watching the documentary. A more lively narrator should have been used to really amp up this program.

Overall though, Waterlife, The Big Blue was a really beautiful documentary, with a few rough edges that should have been ironed out before releasing this one. For the most part though, it was enjoyable, a little too relaxing in tone, but done well. For the money I spent, it was well worth it.