Raising the Mammoth
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Movie Reviews of Raising the Mammoth
Movie Review: What a disappointment.
Summary: 3 Stars
I now wish that I had read some of the below reviews before I bought this DVD.Raising The Mammoth is an interesting story showing how difficult it was to retrieve the iceblock,but couldn't they have waited until later to actually show us the Mammoth?
All we see is some red fur at the top of the Mammoth and the tusks which had already been removed.
Apparently,most of the head had already rotted away after being left to the ellements by people retrieving the tusks,but the rest of the body was intact.
The DVD does have some good extras such as a Mammoth timeline and an interview,but the end is disappointing because we never get to see it.
Movie Review: Raising the Big Brown Block of Ice
Summary: 2 Stars
Since this was one of my earlier "reviews" here, I felt I had to come back and revisit it, since there may be some misunderstanding.
I am a big fan of the Discovery Channel shows and usually enjoy most of them. I am NOT your average short attention span viewer who expected a Hollywood action thriller (I am an avid and interested lifelong scientist with a specialty in biology).
And yet, I still do not recommend this programme, because it was too much filler and not enough meat (literally). They stretched about a half hour of information and "non-footage" footage into a two hour show with no pay off in the end.
Here is a 30 second synopsis of the show... (SPOILER ALERT)
Watch Russian workmen and scientists camping on the tundra and slowly digging a big, brown, rectangular block of ice out of the permafrost. Then watch same big, brown, rectangular block of ice helicoptered away. And that's it.
You should know that it is only a partial mammoth (the head was eaten by predators). You never really get to see the partial mammoth, just some tufts of hair. You never get any of the test results (blood, DNA, hair sampling, stomach contents, etc.). Even the tusks that you see in the previews were already removed and just re-inserted into the block of ice for dramatic effect. This show is unnecessarily long with no satisfying payoff at the end (like the similar Discovery Channel Ice Man programme which was far superior and gave us satisfying and fascinating images, facts, test results, and hypotheses about the Ice Man).
Also (guessing from the reviews) you may not be aware, despite the monumental "historic event" promos for this show, that this is NOT the first frozen mammoth found, nor the best preserved, nor the most complete, nor even the largest. Frozen mammoths and mammoth remains have been found around the world for centuries now, and they have been studied for stomach contents, DNA, blood and parasites, etc.
For me, the most interesting thing about this Raising the Mammoth show was the showing of strange prehistoric plants under the feet of the mammoth, and the reconstruction of the bones of another mammoth elsewhere.
I would suggest just watching a repeat of it on Discovery Channel before spending money on your own DVD copy of it. It's repeat viewability factor is a 1 out of 4 (and that's being kind).
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