Sonic Sea

I'm all for documentaries taking the time to highlight some of the damage that humans are doing to the Earth's ecosystem. There's always room for us to learn about where we are making mistakes, and Sonic Sea highlights one more of our failures as a species. However, it simply doesn't contain enough information to warrant a full hour. In fact, it could have been summed up by narrator Rachel McAdams in about 30 seconds, "Humans make a lot of noise in the oceans with our machines, and that disrupts the normal way of life for a great deal of sea creatures. We need to cut it out!" That's pretty much all there is to this documentary, and they go on for a long time rehashing the same examples again and again without adding to the conversation in any meaningful way. The most enlightening part of Sonic Sea was actually when they started discussing what steps could be taken to halt this problem, and how those changes could actually be a cost savings in the long run. Otherwise, Sonic Sea is just a glorified episode of Nightline or some other news program, not a film that needs an hour to make its point.