User Reviews

We saw this in IMax and really enjoyed it. It's a trip into a series of amazing high resolution visual effects with a trippy soundtrack. Seeing it in an imax dome was an incredible immersive experience. After it finished the audience applauded. I wanted to see more. When I stood up I needed a minute to steady myself! The sound track is ethereal and heavenly.

This is a collection of computer generated graphics by at least six different visual effects artists that flow into one another. Each has a distinct feel and style. Some felt like outer space with thousands of stars in the background. Pretty cool experience.

Be careful if you get motion sick.

The good: music was decent.

The bad: the music had no cohesion from one track to the next and no sense of overarching theme. The visuals looked dated and lacked a sense of purpose most of the time. (Not to mention incongruous to the "message" of "the beauty of life.") And on that note, what's with the narration? He just randomly throws out words of generic inspiration like "love." "joy." "kindness." "gratitude." If that was supposed to be meditative or uplifting, then yikes.

Overall, I was left underwhelmed, uninspired, and dare I say bored. There was no sense of harmony throughout the show and I would be hard pressed to see how the images even remotely complemented the "beautifica" theme that Hood was trying to convey. Hard pass.

I kept waiting for someone to move the mouse so the screensaver would turn off and the show could start. It turns out the screensaver was the show.

If a 90's screensaver and modern AI had a lovechild, it would be this.

Watching this, I imagined someone's kid getting let loose in the graphics department for a Dr Strange movie and pressing every button imaginable in random order. The outcome, Beautifica.

The God-like beings in the beginning gave me hope that this was going to be an artistic representation of creation. I think the weird narration scared those beings away and they never returned. Or maybe they did and I missed it because the movie turned off twice. The first time, a chipper voice from somewhere in the dark apologized and started the whole thing from the beginning noting it "doesn't have a fast forward." The second time, it was too close to the next showing to start over again. Man, I knew I should have followed that small group who walked out the first time it turned off.

I should have used the time to nap. The AC was cold, the chairs were soft and reclined, my kids were too busy trying to figure out what the heck they were watching to bother me or fight, and there was strange new age music lulling us all to sleep.

If you are planning on seeing this, I strongly recommend going, buying a ticket, and waiting outside the exit door to watch all the confused faces coming out after it's over.

I have wanted to see this for months now and was very excited when I friend asked if I wanted to go To begin with, when you go to purchase tickets it says starting at $12. Then you enter two adults and it's $34 a piece. And then you add the fees to it and it's almost $40 a piece. The music to the show was very lovely and the message behind the show, though at times a little corny, is of course a good one. But the show itself, . . . There was some lovely light work but there were also some that resembled 1980s screensavers. It was pleasant way to spend the evening with a friend but far from being worth $40 a piece.