REVIEW: To the Arctic 3D Highlights Enviro-Woes, Polar Bear Cubs in Dazzling IMAX

Before IMAX became a way to boost action sequences — Tom Cruise dangling from the tallest building in the world, the Joker's gang rappelling down from a Gotham City high-rise to rob a bank — the outsized format was primarily the domain of nature films like To the Arctic 3D, which aim to dazzle with large-scale shots of mountains and dolphins and Australia and other impressive-looking things. Forty minutes long and narrated by Meryl Streep, To the Arctic uses spoonfuls of cuteness — featuring walruses and caribou, though polar bears are its primary animal stars — to make its fairly grim environmental message go down a little easier.
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