Prehistoric Park
2006
Features time travelling natural history expert, Nigel Marven, as he rescues endangered dinosaurs from extinction and establishes a prehistoric wildlife sanctuary. Read more
| Starring | Nigel Marven, David Jason |
|---|---|
| Genres | Family |
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Prehistoric Park
Features time travelling natural history expert, Nigel Marven, as he rescues endangered dinosaurs from extinction and establishes a prehistoric wildlife sanctuary.
| Starring | Nigel Marven, David Jason |
|---|---|
| Studio | FREMANTLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 4 hrs 48 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Family |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 28 Aug 2006 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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20 out of 24 people found this review helpful
Deserves to be extinct…..
Prehistoric Park will polarise it’s viewers into two distinct groups – those who think it’s so reprehensibly bad that it’s unwatchable and those who will find it compulsive viewing purely to see if it can get any worse. If you fall into this second group, like me, you’ll never cease to be amazed as, week after week; the programme plummets to new depths of farce. The palaeontology ‘science’ behind it is appalling, without even getting into the whole time portal thing. The cg work is surprisingly low rent considering it is the same team poached from the BBC who created the popular, and infinitely better, ‘Walking With….’ Series of cg based dinosaur documentaries. This was only emphasised by the fact that at the launch of Prehistoric Park, ITV chose to show it after the original Jurassic Park movie, which at almost 15 years old, made the ITV ‘ground breaking effects’ look like something from a 1940’s claymation cartoon. Ultimately, this is just another dire product from an increasingly desperate TV network that is running out of money, and ideas, fast. Andy Harries, the senior production controller at ITV this week declared the channel ‘unwatchable’ such is the poor state of affairs. Prehistoric Park was commissioned as a direct rival to the BBC’s Doctor Who but in typically bad fashion, ITV only managed to deliver it to the viewers a month after Doctor Who finished its current run. Yes, the actors and experts convey ‘the smell of fear’ in their expressions and performances but I suspect that it is a fear of never working again in mainstream TV after this debacle rather than any supposed menace from the CG beasties. Avoid at all costs unless you feel the need to punish your senses with pseudo intellectual tripe.
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Great graphics, shame about the rest
First let me say, I did watch the Prehistoric Park series avidly on TV, and was cross when I missed one - I loved the computer-generated creatures (my favourites being the cute baby ornithomimuses) and the attention to the detail of the environment they inhabited. Hence 2 star rating rather than 1. End of praise, start of criticism. I assume - from the pedantic, simplistic dialogue and the weekend early evening air time - that this was aimed at children. I am very concerned about what this series was saying to them. 'These dragonflies got to be a huge size because the atmosphere 300 million years ago was 40% oxygen. Let's grab one and take it forward to when there's only 20% oxygen'. What message does that give? 'We've saved this single mammoth from extinction and she's been adopted by this herd of elephants which by chance we have here in the park'. What happens when the poor old girl finally pops her tusks? Break out the time portal, go back and get another one? This isn't rescuing anything from extinction, it's establishing a collection in true Victorian style. These prehistoric creatures occupied a world completely different from ours and couldn't possibly survive now - you might as well 'rescue' them to Mars. Only the treatment of the pair of sabre toothed cats - where the emphasis was on getting them to breed - suggested a glimmer of realisation as to how the material should have been presented. My suggestion for a re-work of the series:- 'Each episode centres on a particular present-day endangered animal. Conservationist Nigel uses time portal to go back and view similarly challenged prehistoric creatures, thus getting ideas for preventing recurrence. Nigel returns to present and applies knowledge gained. Where captive breeding program is required, Head Keeper & Head Vet are seen overcoming problems besetting the Park's inhabitants - which are present-day species only - from both the current and earlier episodes'. I see an earlier reviewer used the title Missed Opportunity. Hear, hear!
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