I found this movie pretty fascinating as well as educational.
I watched it with my kids. It was pretty intense at times for them. They really got into it, sympathizing with the main character/dinosaur of the movie and seeing the predatory dinosaurs as the "bad guy".
If you didn't know this is the same outfit that made the phenomenal "Walking with Dinosaurs" back in 1999 (wow over ten years ago now!). If you haven't seen that yet, it's a must! It's a jaw dropping world class production.
Since it's the same company a comparison is inevitable. First it explains some things according to IMDb the first was a £6m production while this was was less then half at £2.5m respectively. WwD (Walking with Dinosaurs) is a much better production in my view. The first is combined a lot of live action, or at least real scenery mixed with CG. While MotD (March of the Dinosaurs) appears to be most if not entirely CG. WwD had a much more realistic look and feel. Also WwD was broken into several segments with several running sub-themes, while MotD is mostly one long them in a particular limited span. It dragged on a bit making it almost too much to watch in one sitting. Furthermore the same my kids were fascinated at first and then got bored after while to the point where they left the viewing area to go do something else.
(Minor spoilers): The movie was both educational and had a story to it. I thought the story was interesting and border-lining on something fictional although quite possible in the scenario.
I was a little bit disappointed by the story as it was kind of negative in my view in the overall scope of things. Perhaps this is my bias from watching everything else dinosaur that seems to show some of the worst parts of the time-line. WwD was better at putting things in scope. Even though dinosaurs came extinct around 65 million years ago (with exception perhaps the birds or what ever that evolved from them), the whole dinosaur period is estimated to be at least 165 million years! Now compare that of humans to an estimated 200,000 years (them Neanderthals) and only off that about 6,000 years ago considered "civilized". So dinosaurs had actually an almost incomprehensible life span in comparison. And makes you wonder some times if the human race will even exist another hundred with some 10% nutters of the world trying to blow our self's up.
But, I digress. The point is the story is sort of towards the end of the dinosaur period where supposed climate changes are making it harder and harder for them to survive. Although with out this great source of conflict for survival a story probably couldn't have been as interesting. I suppose a more difficult story to show a slice of "happy times" for dinosaurs. WwD was again better because it showed contrasts in different time periods for better and for worse for various dinosaur species. A funny thought...-perhaps thousands (hopefully many millions at least) of years some other race, and, or evolution will look at OUR period and just show the more interesting "end" of it all.
Maybe not as good as "Walking with Dinosaurs" but still great. And if you like Dinosaur history/theory as much as I do, you won't want to miss it.
I watched it with my kids. It was pretty intense at times for them. They really got into it, sympathizing with the main character/dinosaur of the movie and seeing the predatory dinosaurs as the "bad guy".
If you didn't know this is the same outfit that made the phenomenal "Walking with Dinosaurs" back in 1999 (wow over ten years ago now!). If you haven't seen that yet, it's a must! It's a jaw dropping world class production.
Since it's the same company a comparison is inevitable. First it explains some things according to IMDb the first was a £6m production while this was was less then half at £2.5m respectively. WwD (Walking with Dinosaurs) is a much better production in my view. The first is combined a lot of live action, or at least real scenery mixed with CG. While MotD (March of the Dinosaurs) appears to be most if not entirely CG. WwD had a much more realistic look and feel. Also WwD was broken into several segments with several running sub-themes, while MotD is mostly one long them in a particular limited span. It dragged on a bit making it almost too much to watch in one sitting. Furthermore the same my kids were fascinated at first and then got bored after while to the point where they left the viewing area to go do something else.
(Minor spoilers): The movie was both educational and had a story to it. I thought the story was interesting and border-lining on something fictional although quite possible in the scenario.
I was a little bit disappointed by the story as it was kind of negative in my view in the overall scope of things. Perhaps this is my bias from watching everything else dinosaur that seems to show some of the worst parts of the time-line. WwD was better at putting things in scope. Even though dinosaurs came extinct around 65 million years ago (with exception perhaps the birds or what ever that evolved from them), the whole dinosaur period is estimated to be at least 165 million years! Now compare that of humans to an estimated 200,000 years (them Neanderthals) and only off that about 6,000 years ago considered "civilized". So dinosaurs had actually an almost incomprehensible life span in comparison. And makes you wonder some times if the human race will even exist another hundred with some 10% nutters of the world trying to blow our self's up.
But, I digress. The point is the story is sort of towards the end of the dinosaur period where supposed climate changes are making it harder and harder for them to survive. Although with out this great source of conflict for survival a story probably couldn't have been as interesting. I suppose a more difficult story to show a slice of "happy times" for dinosaurs. WwD was again better because it showed contrasts in different time periods for better and for worse for various dinosaur species. A funny thought...-perhaps thousands (hopefully many millions at least) of years some other race, and, or evolution will look at OUR period and just show the more interesting "end" of it all.
Maybe not as good as "Walking with Dinosaurs" but still great. And if you like Dinosaur history/theory as much as I do, you won't want to miss it.