The
Journey Home
(2014/Image Entertainment DVD)
Picture:
B Sound: C Extras: D Film: C+
After
the sheriff captures and takes away a polar bear outside Luke's home,
the last thing he expects to find a baby polar bear. He decides to
go on an adventure of the lifetime to reunite the cub with his
mother. Despite warnings and dangers, Luke (Dakota Goyo) speeds off
in his snowmobile into the arctic, but as he travel deep in the
wilderness he begins to learn a lot more to respect than cute wild
animals in Roger Spottiswoode's The
Journey Home
(2014).
Luke is your typical teenager, but his first mistake
is when he decided to try and keep a polar bear cub as a pet instead
of calling the sheriff and bring the cub back to it's mother. As he
journeys North, he loses his snow speeder, supplies and learns how
poorly prepared he was to face the elements, starvation and just
surviving the arctic. As a storm closes in, he will find himself
stranded on ice flows, illegal hunters and many other challenges.
His only hope is his family friend/guide Muktuk (Goran Visnjic) who
comes to his rescue when all others have failed.
If you like
cute animals and kids then this is a family friendly movie. It
reminds me of Free
Willy
but with a polar bear cub instead, however it does teach a little on
some of the dangers of the frozen wilderness. The main character's
role was naive and made many mistakes that in real life usually meant
death in the arctic. Michelle Moynahan also stars.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is good and consistent, but
the lossy Dolby Digital sound is on the weak side. There are no
extras.
-
Ricky Chiang
