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Fantastic, even with Nigel,
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This review is from: Chased By Dinosaurs (DVD)
The premise for these videos is that Nigel, an Action Zoologist (the name I give to moronic zoologists/amateur naturalists who go around chasing animals instead of just watching them) is able to travel back into time to watch dinosaurs. He visits some very interesting time periods, including the biggest sauropod versus the biggest carnivore (i.e., the biggest land animal ever versus the biggest land carnivore ever). He then visits an animal with massive claws, trying to determine just what it ate. Finally, he ends up exploring the six most dangerous seas of all time. That translates into him visiting the six most dangerous marine predators of all time. I quite enjoyed this series, but all were well done.As you can guess, I'm not the biggest fan of Nigel all the time, and like most Action Zoologists, I'm half cheering for him to get eaten most of the time. What keeps this video collection at 5 stars is that there is a superb documentary, almost an hour long, on the science behind the first episode of giant herbivore versus giant carnivore. It's well presented for even children, yet the accuracy and thinking are good enough for older, more scientific audiences. So this is a win-win of education and entertainment, and well worth the money.
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The best dinosaur movie by far,
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Both my son and I love this video! The special effects are so realistic you'd swear these dinos are real, especially the Most Dangerous Seas segment. A must see for any dino enthusiast.
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Chased by Dinosaurs,
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This review is from: Chased By Dinosaurs (DVD)
BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs shows have always been a guilty pleasure of mine, even though each one is more ludicrously inaccurate then the one before it. Still, watching computer generated dinosaurs in simulated nature photography has yet to get old. I live in the US and don't get cable so I have to wait for these shows to appear on DVD in order to watch them. Chased by Dinosaurs adds a new twist to the series, adding Nigel Marvin into the mix. I assume he is Britian's answer to the croc hunter, and he was interesting enough here for me to look for some of his other shows. The croc hunter method of storytelling makes everything much less serious and gives us about 70% less dino screen time then before, but it is still very entertaining and unique. Who doesn't want to see Nigel trying to lure a Sarcosuchus out of the water with a stick?There are five 30 minute episodes on the disc. The first two explore soem of the most interesting mezezoic ecosystems, mid cretaceous south america and late cretaceous Mongolia. It's about time these awesome enviorments got Walking with Dinosaurs treatment, and it really is a pleasure to see Giganotosaurus, Therizinosaurus, Protoceratops and others brought to life by framestore's animators. Anybody with even the most marginal knowledge of dinosaurs will be frustrated by glaring in accuracies, but if viewed soley as entertainment you'll have a good time. This show has much more of dinosaurs fighting and doing "cool stuff" then the other Walking with dinosaurs shows. Then there is the 3 part Sea Monsters show. This show's very theme characterizes the creatures as monsters instead of animals, but again, just view it as entertainment. There is nothing to learn here, but its a really fun 90 minutes and I found myself really getting into it. Since they're throwing people in with the dinosaurs it would have been cool if somebody got eaten, but I suppose you can't have it all.
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