There’s little factual information about Noah (played here by Russell Crowe) in the Bible. We know he’s 600 years old, the father of three sons with his wife Naameh (Jennifer Connelly. They are Ham (Logan Lerman), Shem (Douglas Booth) and Japeth (Leo McHugh Carroll). We know he was the man chosen by God to preside over the end of the earth by building an ark — the specs of which God set out — and then was told to bring two of every living thing into the ark. Once that was done, it would rain so hard that a great flood would obliterate the earth. In addition to fighting the elements, Noah had to fight Tubal-Cain (Ray Winstone), a descendant of the same Cain who murdered his brother Abel. Illa (Emma Watson) is Noah’s stepdaughter and she marries Shem, creating a bit of complication.

Director-co-writer Darren Aronofsky’s (he wrote the script with Ari Handel(IMAX version of Noah sticks essentially to the story but there are modern touches. In the movie Noah is an environmentalist vegetarian. His grandfather was 900 year-old Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins, looking old but great for 900 years).

Packed with computer-generated special effects, this Bible story is confusingly, scarily and vividly told. The storm makes us happy we weren’t there to experience it. In addition to people and animals we know, there are the Watchers, stone-encased fallen angels (voiced by Frank Langella and Nick Nolte).

It is a fascinating, well-done movie and, even at two hours-20 minutes it didn’t seem too long. It is powerful in its voice and in its actualization on screen.

However, I must admit that while watching Noah I was unable to get the old camp song about the story out of my head. It was called “Rise and Shine.” Remember it? Whether you do or not, here it is: