Dinotopia - The Series
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Movie Reviews of Dinotopia - The Series
Movie Review: Good Choice!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased Dinotopia the Series for my 11 year old son. He had just finished reading the book that the series was based on for a school project. He just loved the series, as did I. I would recommend this as a good family series.Movie Review: What a bummer
Summary: 5 Stars
I really liked this show. Not intellectually stimulating but plain fun and I can't believe they left it where they did with no plans to continue. It figures.Movie Review: very good
Summary: 5 Stars
nice family entertainment...love this story, the movie and the mini series, just wish tehy had done more years.Movie Review: dinotopia dvd
Summary: 5 Stars
great dvd, i always use amazon to purchase dvd's i cant get on the store market, thanks amazon!!!!Movie Review: Initially very dissapointed with the change of actors - but otherwise pretty good
Summary: 4 Stars
My son (now 10) and our family fell in love with the original Emmy award winning Dinotopia mini-series with it's 'all star' cast. That's also available as two DVD set edited into a superb long film with interesting 'making of' extras. My son absolutely couldn't tolerate this spin off series when they changed all the actors, and has only just started watching it a year or two after we bought it on DVD. He really likes the series now (as he admits he has forgotten what the orginal cast were like).
This Dinotopia series has a more jocular mood with the old charactor's presented in a more likeable way than the original moody and angry or pious (bordering on pompous in the Mayor's case) tone of the original. However I preferred the darker original style, and missed classy Brit's Katie Carr and Jim Carter as the Dinotopians and American's Wentworth Miller and David Thewlis as the believable in-fighting step-brother's coping with their sudden change of lifestyle and recent loss of their father. I also really, really missed Lee Evans as dinosaur Zippo's voice, Terry Jone's as the messenger's birds voice and Tyron Leitso as hustler Cyrus Crabb. However I really like the fact this Dinotopia series DVD set has all the episodes listed seperately so that the cliffhanger, end music and titles remain, greatly helping to set the pace. I felt the merging of the original mini-series into a single very long film on DVD was less succesful than keeping the episodes seperate as screened - which also allows an episode before bed-time for the kids.
The 'unknown' new cast of this spin-off series make a good go of it though, but I do find the change of mood and cast very annoying. I wish they had just bought in completely new character's with this new cast and ignored the previous mini-series. But of course any Dinotopia is better than nothing. Other than the whinges above, this is a very fun series, less serious and Dino-preaching than the original and with more of the Pirate's of the Caribbean feel (as it now has pirates). It is therefore probably well suited to older pre-teens and young teenagers (probably boys mainly). Once we get going, I'm sure we'll all enjoy the series, as on TV we kept missing vital episodes. This 3 DVD set has all 13 episodes listed separately plus a few 'featurettes' on making Dinotopia etc... So overall, very recommended, particularly as no more promised Dinotopia seems to have materialised. We got it very cheap via Amazon resellers.