Article: 'The Human Body' enjoyably educational

IMAX films have taken us from the summit of Everest to the depths of the Pacific.

But none has journied to a locale as exotic and wondrous as "The Human Body."

This is an educational field-trip film, to be sure.

But it's so elegant, artful and awe-inspiring that you'll hardly notice that you're learning.

The film also has a playfully gross side - a zit-popping, bile- spewing plunge into the slop of our beings - that's sure to please young boys.

Produced by The Learning Channel, BBC Worldwide and Discovery Pictures, "The Human Body" follows a family in England who think they're going about an ordinary day.

Little do they know what wonders lurk beneath their skin - and on it. We see young ...

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