[Excerpts from Wired]

Please take note that this particular Blu-ray disc will display in 2D without the required hardware. To watch this movie in Blu-ray 3D, you will need a 3D-capable television that comes with active-shutter glasses (LC shutter glasses) and a 3D-capable Blu-ray player.

Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man 3D is a fantasy of color, movement and sound that depict the stages of human development from birth to maturity in a kind of visual parable.  …

I thought the 3D effects of the film were quite understated throughout the action sequences. The most thrilling 3D effect that I experienced was when the boy meets the clowns in the forest. In this scene, the clowns swing from trapezes in the Redwoods. When the camera is filming from above or from underneath the trapezes, you feel the 3D depth-effects of twisting and turning, the ones you’re looking for in a 3D film (of a circus troupe anyway). But Cirque du Soleil Journey of Man is not great for it’s 3D effects, most of which are understated and subtle. The reason this is a great Blu-ray disc is that the artistry on the screen is really a prodigious quality. It’s more than a circus act, it’s a cultural presentation that blends like a kaleidoscope: a fantastic soundtrack of Benoît Jutras, wonderful scenic backdrops and a prodigious cast of artist-acrobats, whose performances will thrill all of the family, even the two year olds.