Billabong Odyssey

Billabong Odyssey
by Philip Boston

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• An extreme sports adventure! Top professional surfers scour the world's oceans to ride the biggest waves on the planet. Experience the thrills and spills of action-packed big wave surfing.Running Time: 92 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SPORTS/GAMES Rating: PG Age: 085393431921 UPC: 085393431921 Manufacturer No: 34319

Movie Reviews of Billabong Odyssey

Movie Review: An Incredible, All-World Adventure Documentary
Summary: 5 Stars

Another medium by which the common man/woman can be thrilled is within documentary film. When shot and edited with care and precision, there is probably no other medium taking spectators closer to the heart of an experience.

The stunning "Billabong Odyssey" is such a documentary. This truly remarkable film stands as a testament to human courage, prime athletic skill, unbelievable human strength, mental focus and determination, as it showcases one of the greatest physical challenges of our time... that of finding the biggest waves around the world, and riding them.

Spectacular, numbingly magnificent cinematography; epic daring by the athletes, and the high-tech science of scouting these oceanic monsters make this one of the best sports (and extreme human challenge) documentaries ever made.

On a rating scale for surfers and surfing enthusists, it is off the chart awesome. For pretty much anyone else enamored of the grandeur and power of the natural world, and how men and women challenge and practice within it, it is almost without equal.

'Nuff said? Yeah... maybe so, but beyond any hyperbole you might read into my honest words above, it is unqualifiedly a marvelous "real-world" documentary and ultimately, a supremely human film.

("Let's go tow-in now, everybody's learning how, come on let's safari with me!")

Summary of Billabong Odyssey

While touching on various hot topics such as safety training, serious wipe-outs, swell-tracking technology, female surfers (like the great Layne Beachley), and hydrofoil surfboards (billed as "the future of the sport"), director Philip Boston applies a casual, competitive structure that's too diffuse and lightweight to have much impact. But when the film focuses on the climactic "Jaws" showdown between Carlos Burle and Mike Parsons, Billabong Odyssey achieves a state of raw power and spiritual intensity, culminating in Parsons' best-ever 10-point ride on a massive tube that constantly threatens to consume him. As dozens of adrenaline-junkie surfers strive for new horizons of unprecedented skill, Billabong Odyssey chronicles their efforts with amazing bird's-eye cinematography. For surfers and non-surfers alike, this movie must be seen to be believed. --Jeff Shannon