Wouldn't be too bad if the voices were any good but they're so dumb and cliched, you know how this goes. A dino will say something like 'hello' but you'll still hear the realistic dinosaur growl too, its like the powers that be couldn't decide what to do. Plus they all seem to roar/squawk/growl/whine in real time over the voice work which is odd. I say crowbarred because it feels like it was an after thought, the dino's mouths/lips don't move with the voice work (a proper realistic approach) so it looks like they are thinking everything. Its just such a monumental shame they crowbarred in these stupid cheesy voices to obviously appeal to the kids. So much so its hard to think it could be wrong in any way but I'm sure in years to come new discoveries will arise. Every scale, every feather, skin pigmentation, tooth, eye, posture, walk, stance, growl, roar, squeak, swoop etc.its all created with awesome detail. The dinosaurs are all fantastically rendered in every frame and look.perfect!. I can't stress enough how good this film looks, it is truly beautiful and showcases our home planet in all its glory from dawn to dusk. You have a spectacular looking Cretaceous period complete with stunning live action locations and pixel perfect dinosaurs, but its all virtually destroyed by giving the dinosaurs inept conventional teenybopper type voices and adding horrible songs along the way. This film takes that idea but ruins it with God awful stereotypical Hollywood blockbuster garbage of the hammiest order. The whole idea was to be a slick documentary with insightful ually based around a few dinosaurs and a section of their lives.
There is nothing wrong with an educational film of course, but this isn't it. I guess this brings us to the fundamental problem with this film, the decision to be sell outs and whore the idea out Hollywood style. The concept includes quite a few series following on with the 'Walking with.' title. Although the actual idea of a series all about dinosaurs wasn't completely original it was simply all about the movie style visuals which made it a hit. The original British series was a simple educational natural history documentary but it was all done with flashy CGI and animatronic puppets. The BBC hit Hollywood as they upgrade their popular 1999 miniseries to the silver screen.
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