Basically an IMAX-style na ture documentary shown on regular-size screens at nearly twice the customary length, Nick Stringer’s documentary about the 25-year migratory cycle of loggerhead turtles has some remarkable underwater footage.
Sometime cutesy, anthropomorphic narration delivered by Miranda Richardson details a single female’s long ocean journey after hatching on a sandy Florida beach. The camera follows the turtle (and presumably a raft of look-alikes) across the Gulf Stream to Newfoundland, the Azores and the Caribbean — and, years later, back to Florida, where she lays her eggs, dodging a multitude of perils, both natural and manmade, along the way.
I’d guess “Turtle: The Incredible Journey” will appeal most to kids, though they will have to wrestle with 3-D glasses. I can’t vouch for the quality of the stereographic photography, though; this was screened to the press, oddly, only in 2-D.