| Walking With Beasts : Complete BBC Series [2001] | ![Walking With Beasts : Complete BBC Series [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NYQAX9YNL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Nigel Paterson
Actors: Stockard Channing, Larry Agenbroad, Frank Fish, Larry Witmer, Maureen O'leary (ii)
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 3252
Format: Anamorphic, Box Set, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Running Time: 180 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014503110123
ASIN: B00005UBMG
Theatrical Release Date: November 15, 2001
Release Date: April 8, 2002
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Walking With Beasts is an introduction to the animals (predominantly mammals) that roamed the earth from the extinction of the dinosaurs until the rise of early humans. The sequel to the BBC's acclaimed and highly successful series Walking With Dinosaurs, Beasts also uses a combination of clever special effects and computer-generated imagery to create a realistic world as it may have appeared millions of years ago. As to be expected from any BBC nature programme, the images are visually stunning; the prehistoric animals look impressively lifelike, interacting seamlessly with each other and their environment to create an entire world that could have been photographed only yesterday. Best of all is Episode 2, "Whale Killer", which follows a female Basilosaurus, an enormous ancient predatory whale, as she travels through shallow seas and along coastlines--the underwater images could have just as easily originated in the BBC's spectacular Blue Planet series. It's unfortunate, therefore, that Walking With Beasts is let down by its script and the often dubious science therein. Episode 3, "The Land of Giants", begins with an anthropomorphic statement better suited to a Disney film than a scientific documentary, referring to the featured animals as "The good [a herbivore or plant-eating animal], the bad [a carnivore or flesh-eating animal] and the ugly [a giant warthog which is, admittedly, pretty ugly]." Still, Walking With Beasts has a host of little touches and flourishes that add to the feeling of realism (the animals knock over the cameras, pebbles hit the lens), which make this programme a success as a piece of pure entertainment and prehistoric escapism. A companion book and soundtrack CD is also available. --Ted Kord
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 fantasy or fact? January 6, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Based more on fantasy (or at best speculation) than fact. No one knows about the social structure of sabre-toothed cat society, so why pretend (in such detail) that we do. That's just one example.
The visuals are splendid.
The narrator's voice annoyed me. Sounded like a typical off-the-shelf narrator who understood nothing of the subject. Was taken aback to discover it was Kenneth Branagh.
 walking with beasts May 27, 2003
4 out of 26 found this review helpful
exellent ,fantastic and exciting its is good if you that sort of stuff it is a peice of art a complete CLASSIC it good for its money!
SO BUY IT AT AMAZON!
(you know you want to buy it!)
 Marvellous depiction of a lost age April 2, 2002
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
Watched this series the end of last year but I still feel that Walking with Dinosaurs was more interesting. Favourite episode was the last and the Mammoths looked so authentic that after witnessing them on the programme, you wouldn't be surprised to see some traversing the wilderness of Siberia!
Its an extremly brillant movie/show. Its truley amazing. December 13, 2001
8 out of 24 found this review helpful
This movie is an extremly brillant movie. I am studing to be a paleontologist, and it has helped me to learn, names and what they look like, do, and more. I am so facinated with this, and also Walking With the Dinosaurs.
Compelling at times, but short of extraordinary December 4, 2001
44 out of 48 found this review helpful
This follow up series to Walking with Dinosaurs takes up from where it left off, and is an obvious improvement in at least one respect: the credibility of the imagery. The series follows the same periodic snap-shot format, following within each snap shot the fate of an individual or a group from a particular species. I found episode 4 "Next of Kin", the most compelling, featuring as it does Australopithecines, our ancestors. I thought that these were quite well rendered, and believably presented in terms of attributed behaviour. At times I even felt a moment of awe. On a second watching, these moments were still felt to some extent, and therefore I feel the series has some enduring merit. It would not be honest to say that the series is gripping, and I don't feel that either this series or Walking with Dinosaurs is a match for much of David Attenborough's work, for example (in terms of structure, variety of material covered, and photography - simulated or otherwise..!), however it is definitely worthwhile, and in the case of the creatures it features, it opens up a window on a period of our world's prehistory that has never before been convincingly depicted, (certainly not with this favour of authenticity and spectacle) and that is a wonderful thing in itself.
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