Allosaurus - A Walking With Dinosaurs Special
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 2000
DVD Release : 10 April, 2001 |
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Allosaurus - A Walking With Dinosaurs Special description
The phenomenal BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs spawned this 30-minute special. Using the same blend of computer animation, puppetry, and story-driven narration (by Kenneth Branagh), Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special centers on one particular dinosaur dubbed Big Al. Found in Wyoming in the 1980s, Big Al's fossil remains comprise the most complete allosaur skeleton ever found. Enough clues are found in the bones, 145 million years after his death, to tell the story of what might have happened from his birth to his death. The film's naturalistic approach (unlike that used in the Disney film Dinosaur, whose characters could talk) is quite spectacular, with chills (a bog turns out to be a big dinosaur threat), thrills (allosaurs chase a group of giant diplodocus), and humor (a baby allosaur seems to bump into the "camera"). A half-hour companion program, "Big Al Uncovered," illustrates how the "what-if" story of Big Al was constructed using facts uncovered by paleontologists (including the 17 injuries found in the skeleton) and filling in the gaps using the dinosaur's distant cousins (birds and crocodiles). The BBC production does not shy away from the violent world of dinosaurs, including mating and hunting techniques. However, any dinosaur fan age 7 and up should find all the Walking with Dinosaurs specials an exciting and fun education. --Doug Thomas |
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Allosaurus - A Walking With Dinosaurs Special Customer Reviews
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Humanizing the non-human
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A gargantuan killing machine, extant roughly 145 million years ago, is brought back to life with his own "back story".
The killing machine was also a baby, a child, and an adolescent. Went from snagging insects to tackling killer machines his own size.
This brilliantly conceived and executed program could be a permanent part of any curriculum, including informal home learning.
One citicism, which actually extends back to the Speilberg classics. Why the human-like facial and body mannerisms? I can understand how kids might be scared by the "real deal", an entity terrifying enough to make even Spiderman take flight.
In think, in 2008, even the "kiddies" can take a stronger dose of dino-reality. There was no cuteness. Unless they had a way of distorting themselves so as not to look menacing to those peaceful plant eaters - and today, [one of] their thriving descendents who hang out in swamps, can "cry crocodile tears" prior to ripping apart a prosperous looking wildabeast
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