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 |
|---|---|
| Run time | 288 mins |
| Genres | Family |
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18 out of 22 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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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Very captivating
This series is a very captivating and entertaining SCI/FI documentary. If you like dinosaurs and Jurassic Park its one for you.
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