The IMAX Melbourne has released a great program in time for the Easter holidays, including the following shows:

*From Thursday March 25, enter the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons in the new movie “How to Train Your Dragon”. This new animated action comedy is based on the book by Cressida Cowell and tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe’s longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. The cast includes Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrara, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
Cost: $22.50 adult, $18.50 concession, $16.50 child, $68.00 family (2 adults & 2 children)

*Now showing is the epic 3D fantasy adventure “Alice in Wonderland” from Walt Disney Pictures and director Tim Burton. Starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as 19 year-old Alice, who returns to the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl.
Cost: As above.

*Nine-time world champion surfer, Kelly Slater, and his big wave companion, Raimana Van Bastolaer star in the first ever extreme surfing IMAX 3D movie “Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D”. Shot in the Tahitian big wave environment known as Teahupoo, it captures the incredible power, majesty and danger of the most treacherous ocean waves in the world. Cost is $17.50 adult, $14 concession, $12.50 child, $50.00 family (2 adults & 2 children) On now.


*To be released on May 13, in time for the winter school holidays, is the newest IMAX attraction, “Titanic 3D: Ghosts of the Abyss” and director and master storyteller James Cameron takes moviegoers back to his greatest inspiration - the legendary wreck of the Titanic. Using state-of-the-art technology developed expressly for this expedition, Cameron and his crew are able to explore both inside and outside the wreck of the Titanic. With advanced 3D photography, moviegoers experience the ship as if they are part of the dive team, travelling deep below the surface of the ocean and far inside the ghostly shipwreck. Made especially for IMAX 3D theatres, Cameron and his team reveal the ship as it has not been seen since its tragic sinking almost one hundred years ago.
The release of the movie will coincide with the new Melbourne Museum blockbuster exhibition -Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition, opening on May 14.
IMAX cost: $17.50 adult, $14.00 concession, $12.50 child, $50.00 family (2 adults & 2 children)

For session times visit www.imaxmelbourne.com.au

by Shamoli Dutt - Austguide Travel News Editor