Prehistoric Park

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Actor: David Jason, Nigel Marven, Rod Arthur, Suzanne McNabb
Brand: BCI ECLIPSE LLC
Cinematographer: David Langan
Editor: Rick Aplin
Producer: Lareine Shea
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 288 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bci / Eclipse

DVD Reviews of Prehistoric Park

DVD Review: Fun for the whole family!
Summary: 5 Stars

My 3 year old loves anything dinosaurs. If you are going to be glued to the tv due to illness or a newborn it is sure a nice change from the cartoons. Nigel Marven is an entertaining character for all ages. There are six episodes to choose from, dinos to prehistoric bugs.

DVD Review: Great series for my 6 yr. old
Summary: 5 Stars

My 6 yr. old son is currently obsessed with dinosaurs (until the next obsession) & loves these movies. He also enjoys the Ultimate Dinosaur Collection videos & we have seen all the Prehistoric Planet episodes 20 times each for sure. I wish there were more of them. All somewhat similar & some scenes & people even show up in all of these series. Quite realistic & very well done!

DVD Review: Very entertaining
Summary: 5 Stars

Imagine if time travel was possible and you wanted to build a Jurassic Park minus the dinosaurs eating everyone and this is the show you would get. Nigel Marven does a great job getting everyone excited about what is going on in the park. This is one of the few shows that do not involve cartoons that my two year old daughter will watch. We both love it. While it is not as scientific based as other BBC shows, it will keep you entertained.

DVD Review: A Park I would love to see
Summary: 5 Stars

This series is excellent for children and adults, fast paced, informative without droning, and fun. I enjoyed seeing all six episodes together, and will keep this set in my collection.

DVD Review: Annoying
Summary: 2 Stars

just to clarify I have walking with dinosaurs, walking with prehistoric beasts, and walking with monsters the original british versions. I actually bought this but sent it back because the british narration was to annoying and kept my american version.

Description of Prehistoric Park

In this thrilling new docu-drama series that is at the cutting edge of technology and creativity Nigel Marven heads back to prehistoric times to find some of the most magnificent creatures that have ever been on this Earth. With the aid of award-winning animatronics and computer graphics teams we are sent back to prehistory among some of the most amazing creatures that have ever existed. The creatures are brought back through time to the present day where they are looked after in the Prehistoric Park a place where Nigel and his expert dedicated team care for them alongside animals from the present day world.System Requirements:Running Time: 240 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating:?NR UPC:?787364778393

What if extinction didn't have to be forever? That's the premise of this BCI Eclipse docu-drama by the animatronics and computer graphics teams of Walking With Dinosaurs in which naturalist Nigel Marven rescues now-extinct creatures from the past 300-million years and brings them via time portal to a present-day wildlife sanctuary known as Prehistoric Park to be studied, preserved, and bred. Like a Jurassic Park with much more scientific information and minus the high level of sheer terror, Prehistoric Park deals with the housing of prehistoric creatures in the modern world. Nigel travels through the last 300-million years collecting specimens of everything from the heavily researched tyrannosaurus rex, wooly mammoth, and saber tooth cat to the newly discovered four-winged microraptor and the centipede-like arthropleura. Each episode skillfully blends scientific fact with scientific inference and Nigel's demonstrated knowledge of modern day animals and his ability to extrapolate that knowledge to understand prehistoric animal behavior and their needs is impressive. At Prehistoric Park, the very knowledgeable veterinarian Suzanne is similarly adept at adapting current medical knowledge and practice to help the prehistoric animals under her care and park caretaker Bob is a master improviser, building containment pens and modifying environments, and sometimes animal behavior, to ensure a healthy and safe captivity. An adventure series in the truest sense, each 47-minute episode juxtaposes the modern with the prehistoric and the scientific with the imagined, is full of suspense and drama, and features an amazing combination of very skilled computer animation and realistic animatronics that leave audiences believing that they've just seen genuine footage of prehistoric creatures. Scenic locations are stunning and conjure up localities ranging from the subtropical prehistoric park to the icy tundra, rock formations of Scotland, and ash-strewn volcanic lands of prehistoric China. The talents of Nigel Marven, sometimes compared to the Crocodile Hunter, Suzanne McNabb, Rod Arthur (park keeper Bob), and narrator David Jason are considerable. Bonus features include a great "Stats and Facts" feature which allows viewers to select on-screen facts about specific creatures as they appear within the episodes, storyboards, photo gallery, and a 27-minute making-of featurette that details the entire creative process from imagining the impossible to scouting locations, creating the incredible animatronics with "Crawlie Creatures" and cutting-edge computer animation with "Framestore," and finding talented actors and natural history experts up to the challenge of re-creating 300-million years of history. This six-episode television adventure is at once entertaining and educational and is sure to fascinate and inspire the entire family ages 6 and older. --Tami Horiuchi

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