Director Greg MacGillivray has perfected the art of the under-an-hour Imax documentary, as evidenced once again by “Dream Big: Engineering Our World,” a stirring 42-minute celebration of the creative minds concocting our tomorrows. Apt to be most at home at science centers and aquariums nationwide, MacGillivray’s latest exploits the large-screen format to breathtaking effect, providing gorgeous panoramas of natural and man-made wonders as well as intimate snapshots of men and women using their wits to achieve amazing feats. As far as such slight projects go, the film proves a rousing, and ravishing, call-to-engineering-arms for future generations, and should receive a welcome reception from its young target audience.
As with last year’s “National Parks Adventure,” “Dream Big” wastes little time on set-up, operating – from its opening moments – as a to-the-point treatise on its chosen subject. In this case, that’s the field of engineering, which MacGillivray views as a...
As with last year’s “National Parks Adventure,” “Dream Big” wastes little time on set-up, operating – from its opening moments – as a to-the-point treatise on its chosen subject. In this case, that’s the field of engineering, which MacGillivray views as a...
- 2/16/2017
- by Nick Schager
- Variety - Film News
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