Before the Dinosaurs: Walking With Monsters
by Tim Haines
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Actor: Kenneth BranaghDirector: Tim Haines
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Peter Thorn
Editor: Andrew Wilks
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
DVD Reviews of Before the Dinosaurs: Walking With Monsters
DVD Review: Not as good as Walking with Dinos
Summary: 3 Stars
If you already own Walking with Dinosaurs and want something more, this is a good 'prequel', otherwise buy Dinos first. Fun for families/kids/adults interested in natural history, dinos, etc. The series is a little more 'broken' than the Dino series, though special effects have come farther. DVD Review: Too Graphic for most kids under 12, but great for older prehistory biology buffs
Summary: 5 Stars
Very graphic and true to life CGI of select (pre-dinosaur) creatures "life-histories". This has some very scary stuff for children who will naturally want to apply this to their lives including parental cannibalism of offspring and very realistic bloody flesh-rending of prey. This requires direct parental involvement and discussion of these images NOT BEING real and why they do not apply to your children. It's probably best to wait until your kids are at LEAST age 7 or 8 for the toughest kids, 12-14 even better for more sensitive children, and already know quite a bit about prehistoric creatures. DVD Review: Brontosaurus? How about Bronto-scorpio!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Spiders as big as your head, centipedes as long as a bus, enormous amphibians and repitiles! Get ready for a wild ride, as you learn about fascinating creatures older than the dinosaurs. My kids go bonkers for this stuff, and we enjoy this series too.
Caution: violence in the natural world. Theory of evolution is presented as fact. Early life forms are repeatedly referred to as our ancestors, which may conflict with your family's beliefs.
DVD Review: Abridged Movie Length Version
Summary: 5 Stars
I just enjoyed watching the abridged movie length version yesterday. I enjoyed this much more than the other chapters of the story (Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Beasts). Walking with Monsters appears to me to have a number of advantages.
Firstly, the animation appears to me to be more believable, at least in parts. The animals appear more at home in their environment, and less clunky. Though I can appreciate that this view would differ from person to person: at the time this thought occurred to me, someone spoke out to say that it looked fake!
Secondly, the narration by Kenneth Brannagh is much easier to listen to. It is less overbearing, and less obtrusive. The images and the story carry more weight than his voice acting in this "speculation".
Thirdly, the story gives more emphasis on the theories especially relating to evolution, and less on the dramatisation of the lives of animals. It was particularly effective to see the changing shape of the animals postulated through evolution, and to have the periods/eras of time clearly highlighted. We have a poster of these time periods and our eight year old enjoyed referring to these while we watched the DVD. He especially delighted in hearing about our ancestry being traced back to the fish!
Overall the series is a great achievement, and I'm sure has made some advancements towards society's understanding of the concepts that we can gather from our prehistory. Its certainly improved my knowledge.
DVD Review: Another Must-Have Dino Series
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're into serious research material, then add this DVD to your shopping cart ASAP! It seems everyone forgets there WAS a time before dinosaurs, but no book ever depicted the animals of that period. As a bonus, detailed narration and careful production will entertain everyone in the family.
Description of Before the Dinosaurs: Walking With Monsters
Movie DVDMany people think of the dinosaurs as the first inhabitants of the earth, but this prequel to Walking With Dinosaurs puts viewers in the midst of a host of strange creatures that inhabited the earth millions of years before the dinosaurs ever existed. With the help of complex computer animation and the research of hundreds of paleontologists, the BBC presents an extremely realistic picture of the earth's earliest, most primitive aquatic inhabitants and chronicles their evolution to the precursors of man himself and the mighty dinosaurs. The first Walking With Monsters episode begins in the Cambrian period 530 million years ago, showcasing how a simple jellyfish-like sea creature evolved over 200 million years into new creatures with eyes and protective external and internal skeletal systems. These adaptations resulted in the world's first fish, arthropods, amphibians, and land-loving reptiles. The second episode details the giant insects of the Carboniferous period 300 million years ago and demonstrates how evolution empowered amphibians and reptiles by creating mechanisms to regulate their own body temperature and developing specialized teeth. The final episode begins in the late Permian period 250 million years ago when the earth was essentially one large desert full of volcanic activity. While much of earth's life was extinguished during this period, adaptation and evolution continued, bringing the development of a specialized hip in a tiny reptile called the Euparkeria that would prove to be the forerunner of mammals and evolve into the dinosaurs in the Triassic period. While some criticize this project as a somewhat overly dramatic presentation of speculative paleontology as fact, this program utilizes scientific inference to bring pre-history to life and highlight the amazing adaptations and evolution of the earth's earliest inhabitants. The bonus "Trilogy of Life" feature details the research, vision and hard work inherent in the creation of the Walking With Monsters, Walking With Dinosaurs and Walking With Prehistoric Beasts. (Ages 6 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
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