Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

Name: Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music

Canada · 2000
Rated G · 39m
Director Keith Melton
Starring Ian McKellen, Nicky Dewhurst, Brian Dewhurst , Anait Karagyezyan
Genre Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music

A child is born. He is young, in a jungle setting, with fanciful instincts guiding him. An adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instincts behind and enters a garden where two statues dance in a pond. As he watches their sensual acrobatics of love, he becomes a man.

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Miami Herald by

Too bad Journey of Man, as a whole, is never as consistently compelling as that one visually arresting scene (with Yves Décoste and Marie-Laure Mesnage)

Philadelphia Inquirer by Desmond Ryan

The troupe deserves every bit of its worldwide renown, and it makes this Imax trip one well worth taking.

New York Post by Hannah Brown

The ugly, witless pair of clowns who flit through the movie are emblematic of everything that is wrong with this dull, monumentally pretentious mess.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Unnecessary and silly.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

A hokey, more-than-a-little-annoying mystical journey of self-discovery.

San Francisco Chronicle by Peter Stack

The big screen -- with that 3-D depth charge -- captures the strange magic of the "big top" Cirque in visual gulps.

Time by Richard Corliss

A film worthy of being displayed on a screen eight stories high.