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Nothing to see here... I wasted almost an hour of my time and there was literally nothing to see. All this buildup about photographing Pluto for the first time... All these people in Times Square and all this footage shown on the Times Square screens... And then the show ends with nothing. We never got to see the photographs. It was a big build up to absolutely nothing.

44 minutes of hashing and rehashing the same information. Almost no science, but, the real miss came with the lack of any outcome. You title the film Mission to Pluto, talking about the wonderful photos the craft will provide and the scientific bonanza, then leave us with none of either!

This won't take long, don't watch it. If you love the science behind New Horizons or want to know how they launched it, it's not there. No real data, all they do is repeating the same very basic facts over and over again. This could be renamed to: New Horizons: How fast is it? or: New Horizons: Grain of rice. That's what you'll hear for the rest of the documentary. You'd expect a deep look into the rocket, the delivery system, the science on board, what after analyzing Pluto, .. Any and all real interesting info is missing, all the hype wasn't worth it. Very disappointed. It's just a quick overview that easily could've ended in 5-10 minutes. Little to no backstory. As for the images used, they kept recycling the same bad cgi models over and over again. It wasn't even fun to watch.

Ever watch a show that spends the entire time building up anticipation of what's to come and then right before the big reveal the show ends leaving you with nothing? Yep, that's this documentary. 45 minutes of my life wasted. Absolute garbage and a waste of everyone's time!!

This documentary is presented by somebody called Jason Silva. The documentary has a presenter because unless there is a presenter with lots of personality we won't watch it. Jason is very pleased with himself. He speaks in a very loud voice which is necessary because we are all children. Sometimes he speaks so loudly that he spits. He is very handsome. Well he certainly believes he is. He is much more important than Pluto. Science is very boring unless it is presented by handsome and interesting people like Jason. Jason makes it interesting by shouting a lot and saying the same thing quite often. There are a few actual scientists in this documentary but as they are boring and not handsome like Jason we don't see too much of them. We are all stupid children and so there is no point giving us any of the complicated science stuff anyway. I learnt a lot. Though I can't remember exactly what.

It's an interesting topic, but the host is just way too annoying. I couldn't get through more than 15 minutes even though I'm quite interested in the topic. The presentation is also vapid.

I'll make this short. You get 0 answers, or pictures of what Pluto looks like. This documentary is terrible and the host is full on himself. 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

The entire time they talk about the mission and how the pictures are gonna be amazing, and tell us so much and they get there and don't even show you a picture!

Absolutely atrocious. Horrifically over the top dramatic music, narrator shouting into the mic and just repeats the same 5 lines over and over. Virtually nothing about the science behind the mission and don't even cover New Horizon's photos or findings. All hype and no payoff. NatGeo should be embarrassed of this one.

I don't know what's worse the idiotic presenter or the utter lack of any real information. Let's start by pointing out that NO ACTUAL PHOTOS OF PLUTO ARE SHOWNA?

Why did they even bother making this episode? And then there is the presenter. Overly dramatic. Sentence after sentence grates the early. Never has banality been heralded with such vacuous pomp.

Is this a joke? Were they not able to wait until all the data had been processed?

As you sit through the entire episode you begin to wonder if anything at all will be revealed. Instead only the history of New Horizons is covered. It's a complete fraud.

I had to look this up after watching 45 minutes of this to see if I was the only one.... How in the world do you talk about something for so long and not even show the photos. Not to mention they just restate the same info 10 times. It reminds me of a college essay that needed to reach a minimum word count! Don't waste your time. And now, much like this documentary, I need to reach a minimum word count to have my review accepted by this terrible platform. I don't know if they were paid to give it 6 stars or maybe no one actually watched it and they just used a randomizer to come up with a random number between 1 and 10. I can't believe I just reached the minimum word count....

I've never been fond of the expression "it's not the destination, but the journey." The first time I heard it was from a local, and once I was too far along in a journey to stop and turn back. Like a fool, I pushed forward and found nothing once I reached my destination. That being said, I do have some great memories and stories to tell from that journey.

I can't say the same for this documentary. If I had known the filmmaker was going to "pull the plug" at the penultimate moment, I would have skipped this journey altogether.

I'm so glad I spent 45 minutes of my life listening to some guy named Jason Silva yell and spit about how much he likes space, instead of getting any real facts about the mission other than "it goes over a million miles a day!" and "a grain of rice could destroy it!". Not only do you not get any sort of actual information on the mission, you don't even get to see the picture.

This was 45 minutes of a basement troll yelling about how cool space is, horrible analogies of things that could've rather been explained directly in ten seconds, horribly repetitive CGI, approximately 100 words total from actual scientists, and music straight off of SoundCloud.

Don't waste your time, get on wikipedia and read about it instead. Nothing is explained and it leaves you with more frustrating questions than answers.

I normally find the 1 star reviews to be an exaggeration but in this case, I wholeheartedly agree. There was very little of substance provided in this repetitive "documentary". I had already seen nearly everything, of what little information was provided, in this film about the Pluto mission of New Horizon. And the fact that I talked my wife into sitting down and watching it with me only to see her yawn and nod off for a nap at the end, didn't help matters. I had assured her this would be interesting. It wasn't.

I did give an additional star, though. Just because I hadn't seen some of the photo-documentation. To be fair, I had to give it a 2.

Only got through 30 secotof the intro. True to form, there is some annoying, loud, self-obsessed childish narrator that is too distracting to even watch further. So sick of the selfie/selfish generations. Can someone please produce nature documentaries that focus on NATURE? Shame on National Geographic.

I understand that this was made for a general audience with no background in science or physics, but it's just too dumbed down at some points. It would have been much better with a different host/narrator. The segments with the NASA Scientists are fine, but Jason Silva was getting on my nerves. Why they need to include him on screen at all is beyond me. He kept giving really watered down explanations or everything and making stupid comments.

I was actually angry that I spent 44 minutes watching this without seeing the images of pluto that are hyped for the duration. It is the worst documentary I ever watched and I can't understand how anybody in their right mind could think it made sense to release this. Host is annoying at best and the CGI looks cheap like an early 2000 space show. WHY IS THERE NO IMAGES OF PLUTO?! IT'S A SHOW ABOUT GETTING IMAGES OF PLUTO!!! Don't waste your time on this, there are so many better things out there. Ho touch some grass or google the damn dwarf planet and you will learn so much more. I will never get those 44 minutes back, don't make this mistake.

This is 44 min in length and could be summarized in about 1. They don't show encounter photos and subsequent science results. They do spend a lot of time repeating themselves - a small piece of rock or ice could destroy the spacecraft. It all has to work as programmed because the light speed delay is too great to allow real-time control. We get it. We don't need loads of dramatic music and animations.

What gets me is why end the program at arrival? There are so many awesome findings from the spacecraft.

Nasa's page on the mission has actual info. Can't include urls, so google "nasa new horizons"

APL's page also has good info. Google "jhuapl new horizons"

The first 5 minutes were quite decent and gave a nice intro, and then it went down hill from there. The only reason I give 2 stars instead of 1 is because of the cgi and animations, I thought they were actually really good. Props to who ever made that. I was hoping for an actual documentary but that dream was quickly shattered. The host is just constantly repeating and weirdly excited and nagging, as if he's talking to a bunch of 1st graders, which is enough of a reason to 1 star this title. Though the final drop was when they made some comparisons that have no place in a scientific documentary about space exploration and that's when I had enough to simply closed the video, I made it 1/2 of the way through. Absolutely horrible and frankly quite disrespectful to the scientists who have been working so hard for this achievement. If you can watch it for free somewhere then by all means give it a go and form your own opinion, but I would never recommend anyone to pay a penny for this disgrace.

There's lots of lines that repeat multiple times, not a lot of information just suspense with no layout. If you cut out all the repeat information the movie would be 15 minutes long. The entire show builds up to the Pluto fly by and ends without showing any of the images or information collected by New Horizons.

This documentary might be interesting if you don't know much about astronomy/pluto.

The main problem is that the voice narrative is not scientific at all, they will state 'facts' not to be precise but to invoke drama. But to the letter this is false information. For example, pluto is near the other dwarf planets ? Well, on the contrary. This is not science.

And indeed, the hand wiggling host is very annoying. I was happy to read that other reviewers thought the same and it's not just me.

I do think 1 or 2 rating is a bit extreme so I'll just give it a C- and be done with it. MIght have been a D also ;-)

A couple times during this documentary I was about to go to the comments section to read about people ripping on it, and then I remembered this isn't a YouTube video I'm watching! But like a YouTube video, the host was trying his best to string you long, drip feeding information with just enough flash to keep you watching. Why? Judging from the cuts and recaps throughout the program, that meant more commercial breaks! I get that. What I don't get is Pluto isn't going anywhere. Even if the spacecraft goes dead and never responds again, or slams into the planet itself and makes the news one night, there's still a story to be told. Wait until you have all the information before making a documentary about its mission. Wait for those all-so-important photographs to come in, blurry or otherwise. What should have told the entire New horizons tale seems more like a teaser for a documentary that doesn't exist.