FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

adonis98-743-186503 James Cameron teams up with NASA scientists to explore the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a submerged chain of mountains that band the Earth and are home to some of the planet's most unique life forms. Aliens of the Deep is another documentary that has James Cameron's signature in it and it's quite stunning to say the least. Seeing the equipment that they have build in order to go underwater but the things that they find in there but also the beauty of the sea is just amazing. Cameron is not a perfect man but he has a vision when he wants to and 'Aliens of the Deep' shows it, he wants the technology to make his movies but he also wants to build a better tomorrow on his own. (8/10)

dbborroughs James Cameron takes some astro-scientists to the deep ocean to examine life far from the sun. The idea is to help ponder how life at the bottom of the ocean might be like aliens in space-perhaps even on the moon Europa.I watched the extended version of this documentary on DVD and found it beautiful to look at but tedious to endure. The problem is that unlike Cameron's earlier IMAX film on the Titanic there doesn't appear to be enough material to double the length of the 48 minute IMAX release. Its a great deal of talking heads speaking (down) to the audience. I felt I was at a museum and was getting a gee whiz lecture by the staff who under estimated my ability to understand what they were saying. I doubt most six years old like being talked to the way this film talks to its audience. I lost my patience and began to scan through to the pretty pictures. To be certain the undersea vistas are spectacular and the animated bits of what aliens might look like is neat, but the narration that holds it all together is weak. I'm going to have to go back and try the short version of the film, perhaps it will play better (almost certainly it won't have the dead spots the longer version does.Worth a look for the visuals.

jldmp1 A failure on several levels...Throughout his repertoire, Cameron has set out to film water, or more precisely, 'liquidity' -- it's his customary point of departure -- what world could be more cinematic?. It follows that he will try to make parallels between deep ocean and space exploration. Cameron is also an unabashed showoff, so he must clutter every visual with gadgetry -- the 'look what I can do' factor -- as an unsubtle wink at the audience...every movie he makes. The deep ocean photography should have been more than enough, but he then has to make a push for SETI and other 'cutting edge' research.And therein lies a big problem. Cameron uses the most fecklessly infantile animation ever wedged into a big-budget movie, complete with little green men with sped-up voices (extended DVD version), and NASA probes that make noise in the vacuum while firing the retrorockets...this is no way to bolster science.It all concludes with "The Abyss" finale of mirrored 'aliens' making 'friends' in the deep...how can one push forward cinematically by repeating one's own worst clunker?

fugginspam This semi-documentary was simply lame. So and so gives some credentials and then blah blah blah about how much they like riding in a submarine 3000 meters under the sea - NOT because that would be cool and a once in a lifetime experience but because they somehow need this kind of physical real-world experience to image being in outer space. Its boasted on the box about all these deep sea species we're going to see: different fish/octopuses/worms in whole movie: 6-7. Amount of time showing cool deep sea critters: about 4 minutes. Amount of time showing computer generated rejects from low-budget video games: about 4 minutes. Sometimes wasting 15$ can really aggravate me, and then wasting 2 hours of my life totally throws me off the deepest end of some Europan Frozen Ocean. 0.5/10 honestly.