| Walking With Dinosaurs : Complete BBC Series [1999] | ![Walking With Dinosaurs : Complete BBC Series [1999]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SW96N2SCL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Jasper James, Tim Haines
Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Andre Dussollier, Avery Brooks, Resa Karim
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 2549
Format: Full Screen, Pal
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Running Time: 230 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014501016427
ASIN: B00004S8GW
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 2000
Release Date: May 15, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 good July 13, 2006
1 out of 16 found this review helpful
best documentry ever however i would like to talk about the last comment i noticed another mistake in a brother seris called sea monsters it says megalodon the giant shark was 50 feet long but all scienctists belevie it must have been at least 60 feet long therefore the bbc really have to correct there facts
 I hate to burst bubbles but... December 16, 2005
4 out of 25 found this review helpful
...quite a lot of the "facts" in this series are actually complete bunk. Take for example the grossly exaggerated size for the marine reptile Liopleurodon - some 80+ feet in "Walking with Dinosaurs". Indeed, we actually see a Liopleurodon snatching an Allosaurus (up to 40 ft long confirmed length) in its massive jaws, making the giant theropod look like a rat. Unfortunately, this is a gross misrepresentation of the facts: Liopleurodon was in reality between 7 - 10 metres long, if anything smaller than your average allosaurus. This is supposed to be a factual programme, and yet this kind of exaggerating wouldn't be out of place in the new King Kong movie.
Must have August 21, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have only seen the films on VHS, the DVD is not out in my country. Can you believe it? Now, to the review:
It's the best! Fun to watch, cool, and what should I say? Great! Althoug there are about 100 little goofs in the animation, like the dinosaur drinks, when he should eat, and some things "go into" other things, but I still like it. Too bad I can't buy it. But I recommend it for everyone.
 Disappointing April 9, 2003
12 out of 45 found this review helpful
I found this rather tedious to be quite frank. Kenneth Branagh is definitely not David Attenborough despite attempts to use a similar style. The narrative was very poor. The Science presented here is also extremely dodgy. What's more I didn't actually think the graphics were that great- very much the early stages of the technique- the fighting and feeding scenes were particularly unrealistic. I guess I'm in the minority in not liking this. On the plus side it was better than 'Walking with Cavemen' which was dreadful.
Now we see what we could only imagine before... November 24, 2002
31 out of 33 found this review helpful
"See what you could only imagine before" is how we should take this BBC series. No matter what the paleontologists and critics say, this is a most up-to-date work on this Lost World.These 6 Episodes take us, the viewers through the Life and Times of these creatures that walked the earth before us. The special effects, with or without footprints, with or without thumping earth-shaking sounds show us enough, with the latest scientific findings, to give us what we could not picture before. More than that, they have taken pains in their research to "put to Life" the creatures in terrain that were nearest to what the Dinosaurs were roaming in. The narration by Kenneth Branagh is authoritative and the material is entertaining and educational. No matter that the producers admit to some guess-work, but we know no more than mere fossils and skeletons found anyway. Even some of the Scientists and Paleontologists agree that with the animation, they have new theories of how some of the dinosaurs moved! A plus for DVD is the picture-in-picture feature that shows some of the behind-the-scenes and explanatory footage. Also on DVD is a second disc of 50-mins documentary showing the "making of". This is a typical BBC documentary - brilliant. Altogether, a must-buy documentary feature.
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