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 | 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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9 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Prehistoric Pants
It’s hard to comprehend how this dross received such a high rating here. Universally panned by critics and the viewing public, it has little or no redeeming features. Most who have defended it cite its failings as people misunderstanding it as a children’s programme.
The slot in the schedule it was produced for was the early evening Saturday FAMILY space that is supposed to provide entertainment for all. In this respect it fails on every level - it cannot be counted as educational as the science aspect is purely speculative and almost pantomime like in its presentation whilst the ‘comedy’ entertainment scenarios are too ludicrous to the point of cringe worthy.
I would admit that it was a laudable attempt by ITV to try and break away from their usual fodder of domestic soaps, reality and talent shows and then more repeats of the soaps - but as others here have said - a greatly missed opportunity. If they are to venture into this type of programming again they really need to raise their game and take note of the superior offerings that have gone before them from other channels.
Don’t rent this based on its questionable score here - read all the reviews first……. -
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