'The wobbegong shark looks like a shag carpet - until it moves," Jim Carrey says in "Under the Sea." At which point, of course, the thing does move, looking like, well, a fish camouflaged in shag carpeting.
"Under the Sea," a giant-screen 35-minute extravaganza shot in the Coral Triangle of Papua New Guinea and in the waters of Southern Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, is teeming with creatures that are likewise bizarre, beautiful, and otherworldly.
The work of husband-and-wife filmmakers (and divers) Howard and Michele Hall, "Under the Sea" - narrated by a mercifully restrained Carrey - uses the imposing Imax camera to get up-close-and-personal with the leafy sea dragon (something out of a fairy tale); the Australian sea lion (a sweet-faced mammal out of a Miyazaki cartoon); the venomous sea snake (a shimmering serpent with a paddlelike tail); the color-changing cuttlefish; and a troupe of dancing eels.
