DVD: The Ultimate Jacques Cousteau

This is the ultimate pig-out for couch divers - 3,820 minutes of Cousteau and friends from the 80s and 90s. This period takes us through a resurgence in Cousteau film-making, with his two sons Philippe and Jean-Michel playing increasingly important roles in the process. If you want to see the historic Cousteau films of the 1950s and 60s, you'll have to look elsewhere, though this set does include two documentaries that look back on the Captain's earlier career. Cousteau is deservedly a legend, though he remains a complex character - the family man with two families, the spearfishing environmentalist, the engineer-poet. Here, we see Cousteau with an eye on the history books, tutting at Indonesian dynamite fishers and conveniently forgetting the fact that his team had blown a channel into more than one atoll system to keep the Calypso safely moored...