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Prehistoric Park [2006] [DVD]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5030697009524
Label : Fremantle Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : Fremantle Home Entertainment
Publisher : Fremantle Home Entertainment
Release date : 2006-08-28
Title : Prehistoric Park [2006] [DVD]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Parental Guidance
Format : PAL
Languages : Array
Number of items : 2
Original release date : 2006-07-22
Region code : 2
Running time : 313
Studio : Fremantle Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 2006-07-22

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review by: date: 2009-06-06 rating:

"Welcome to the ultimate wild life sanctuary. Welcome to Prehistoric Park."
"It's one thing to find a T-Rex," the narrator David Jason tells us. "It's another thing to take one home." Prehistoric Park takes the fascinating idea of a natural history series on dinosaurs and combining it into a fictional documentary with a real wildlife adventurer named Nigel Marven. Nigel uses a time portal to travel back with a small team to capture or trick dinosaurs in order to return with them through the portal to today's Prehistoric Park. This is an idea that is presented with good science, but is engrossingly odd because it's played so straight. It's hard not to keep smiling at what has led us to this since Marlin Perkins and Wild Kingdom. br / br /The series has terrific production values, exciting situations, deadpan delivery and this outstanding, enthusiastic real-life naturalist, Nigel Marven. He's a producer and star of popular British TV natural history programs and was associated with David Attenborough for several years. From the back wearing a bush hat he resembles Andrew Zimern rushing to eat something we don't want to know about. From the front, however, he resembles somewhat a weathered and energetic Rod Taylor, down to his workingman's accent. Nigel Marven is a completely unself-conscious amateur actor in the middle of all the special effects. This integration of live action and impeccable Computer Generated Imagery is what CGI was born to do, not waste its time on comic book movies. The fight between two T-Rexes, one with two babies looking on and Nigel trying to stay out of the way, is far more exciting than the fights between Spidey and Willem Defoe. The CGI visuals with the explanation of the giant meteor strike that most likely led to the disappearance of the dinosaurs is impressive. Nigel and the two hungry T-Rex babies, now orphans that he coaxed through his portable time portal with a sandwich, had only seconds to spare before the meteor hit. br / br /During the six episodes of approximately 50 minutes each we'll get to know and like Nigel, as well as Prehistoric Park's head keeper, Bob (Rod Arthur) and the Park's veterinarian, Suzanne (Suzanne McNabb). Of course we'll also see Triceratops horridus, Omithomimus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Mammuthus primigenius, Elasmotherium, Smilodons, Phorusrhacos, and...uh...a lot more. The titles of the six episodes let us know what Nigel and his time portal are up against: T-Rex Returns, Mammoth, Dino-Birds, Saving the Sabre-Tooth, The Bug House, and Giant Croc. During the episodes we often switch back to Prehistoric Park to see how Bob, Suzanne and the staff deal with everything from giving a mammoth a haircut to cool her down during a heat wave to doing an ultrascan to check for a dinosaur pregnancy. Take the time to watch this series, especially if you have kids to sit next to you on the sofa. I think you'll get a kick out of Prehistoric Park while you all learn some good, interesting stuff. br / br /The DVD visual and audio transfers are first-rate. There are three episodes on each of the two discs. The documentary series was shown first in Britain in 2006, then later that year on Animal Planet in the U.S.

review by: date: 2009-02-05 rating:

Excellent fun
We bought this DVD for my 8 year old son after he borrowed a copy from the library a couple of times. It is very realistic and he never seems to get bored watching it. Good entertainment if you are into Dinosaurs.

review by: date: 2008-08-01 rating:

Enjoyable, Engaging and Educational!
This is in no way a Natural History Documentary. br / br /That said it does have it's place, even as a piece of complete fantasy, Nigel Marvin presents these very real, yet extinct animals in a way that is extremely engaging for it's young target audience. br / br /This can only be a good thing to get the next generation involved and interested in the natural world, these animals may be extinct but their DNA lives on all around us. br / br /The Time Portal and Park are just tools to get the facts and popular opinion of how these amazing creatures looked, behaved and interacted across to the palaeontologist, zoologists and conservationists of the future. br / br /You can't knock it for that! br /

review by: date: 2008-06-04 rating:

great for the kids (and parents)
My son has been increasingly interested in dinosaurs over the last couple of years (he's now 4) and I have found it increasingly difficult to find non-gory or frightening programmes for him to watch. As far as I'm concerned this is a parent's dream: there's no need to be concerned about language or excessive blood and no chance of a T-Rex biting anyone out of a car, or being eaten by a sabre-tooth cat. It's educational and fun - what more could you ask for?

review by: date: 2008-02-17 rating:

Absolutely Fantastic
My 7 year old daughter now wants nothing more than to be Nigel Marven. She's adament that when she's grown up she too is going to rescue animals (although at 7 she understands the unlikely possibility of this involving time travel). This was fantastic. The man has such a wonderful love of wild life in general. Its his ability to relate all these animals to modern day animals that has allowed all of us to bring these creatures very much to life. I can seriously recommend this.

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