D-DAY  Normandy 1944 3D  3.0***

    In a compact 43 minutes,  “D-Day: Normandy 1944”, as narrated by Tom Brokaw, delivers a concise but surprisingly comprehensive overview of the events leading up to the June 6, 1944, Allied invasion of Normandy. With clarity and an imaginative use of a variety of film techniques, the movie takes the viewer through the assault itself hour-by-hour, as Allied troops fought their way on and off the beaches under fire from German army defenders (particularly intense on Omaha Beach) and began the longer struggle to liberate France from the Nazis. The movie begins with "The Great Crusade" letter that Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower wrote outlining the invasion. Incredibly, that letter was delivered to the 160,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen  who took part in the invasion before the invasion began.

The movie uses animated battle maps, live-action re-enactments, computer-generated sequences of air attacks and naval bombardments, and colorized archival photos to tell the story.  Rather than show blood or too much violence for the battle scenes the Director Voong  employs a process called sand animation in which the animators manipulate grains of sand to produce images that “express something hard, violent and crude.”  This allows it to be an all family film.

The use of 3-D along with the I-Max, and other up-to-the-minute techniques make for a riveting and informative film experience.

Clark

NOTE: This is ONLY playing at I-MAX theatres .