Walking With Cavemen
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Movie Reviews of Walking With Cavemen
Movie Review: Walking into Humanity's pre History...
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a fan of Professor Robert Winston and his "Walking with..." series of documentaries. This is in the process of being shown on TV at this moment in the UK and all I can say it is better than I expected. Using real actors and actresses, amazing make-up and special effects, Professor Winston takes us through the lives and times of our remote caveman ancestors, starting with "Lucy" who was more ape than human and ending at a pathway that would eventually lead to us, Homo Sapiens. It is a fascinating insight to what might have been. Of course a lot of what you will see on this DVD is supposition, mixed in with fact, fiction and a healthy dose of imagination. We will never really know the whole truth of our Caveman ancestors as we only have bones, and cave paintings to rely on but to a certain extent this is enough and Professor Winston does try to give a plausible explanation as to how and why the human race left the trees and evolved into the people we are today.
There are four episodes, First Ancestors, Blood Brothers, Savage Family and finally, The Survivors and each half hour includes a "time-lapse" so that we can rush through pre-history to the next journey of our evolving ancestors.
Professor Winston is a pragmatic narrator who is able to put across a point without being condescending to the watcher, his humour is subtle and his understanding of the human mind is quite staggering. Roll on the next "Walking with..." series; I wonder what it will be called? "Walking with Astronauts?"
Movie Review: Terrific! (Don't let the academics spoil this one for you!)
Summary: 5 Stars
In anthropology and archeology, "current" and "factual" are unfortunately rather nebulous terms.
The fact of the matter is that much of what is taught in universities -- as well as what is presented here -- is highly speculative.
Students, of course, are taught to parrot theories being propounded in the latest academic publications (written chiefly by professors seeking tenure, who must create new theorems to survive).
Naturally, these students cluck and shake their heads when they see any deviation to what they've been sold by their faculty staff. (The next year will bring a new batch of speculation taught as fact.)
The upshot for you, dear viewer? You will find this film VERY fun, VERY well animated, and, yes, generally informative enough to entertain and educate. The particularities of theory will continue to change as time goes on. That is unavoidable.
This is a triumph of creative production, and I give it a very hearty 5 stars.
And anyone who feels this is simply "freaking hilarious!" would probably do better cast *in* the movie, rather than simply viewing it.
Movie Review: Excellent Series on the Origins of Mankind
Summary: 5 Stars
The BBC's "Walking With Cavemen" is a fantastic documentary series that recreates the evolutionary adventure that was the journey from our earliest hominid ancestors to modern humans of today. Using the latest research in the fields of antropology and evolutionary science, the series highlights several key steps along the way from the diminuative ape-like Australopithecus afarensis to, ultimately, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, showing the various stages of physical as well as intellectual advancements. The effects and makeup are well done and help to create an interesting and believable world where our earliest human relatives lived, hunted, fought, and died.
I was very pleased with this series and would highly recommend it and the other "Walking With..." films to anyone interested in ancient life and anyone who wants to get a fascinating glimpse of what life might have been like for our ancestors over the course of 3 million years.
Movie Review: Discover the superior version of Walking With Cavemen
Summary: 5 Stars
I hate to criticize the Discovery Channel, but what programming executive ape decided they needed to dumb-down and Americanize this excellent documentary? The original BBC version, which is what you get here,is vastly superior to the Discovery Channel broadcast of June 15th, 2003. The different vignettes are longer, better narrated (by a British narrator, not Alec Baldwin) and have a real cinematic kind of feeling almost totally missing from the rushed along, tightly edited version we saw on tv. In fact, after viewing this DVD, the Discovery broadcast seems like a mere infomercial for this longer, better version. If you liked what you saw on Discovery, I highly recommend this DVD. It's like watching WWC again for the first time.Movie Review: Finest and most honest depiction of our evolution.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have never viewed a more compelling and scientifically supported view of life prior to recorded history. This is not a children's movie, it is fact based and as a result there is brief nudity and some violence. To disregard the how's and why's of our climb to become the most dominant creature the planet has ever know would be a watered down piece of fluff. We are the only creature this planet has ever supported that is capable of adapting our needs to any environment as well as adapting our environment to meet our needs.