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- 2013
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
- 2013
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
Summary For the first time in movie history, audiences will truly see and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Walking with Dinosaurs is the ultimate immersive experience, utilizing state of the art 3D to put audiences in the middle of a thrilling and epic prehistoric world, where an underdog dino triumphs to become a hero for t...
Directed By: Barry Cook, Neil Nightingale
Written By: John Collee, Gerry Swallow, David Skelly, Joseph Lidster
- 2013
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
- 2013
- PG
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 27 m
Walking with Dinosaurs
37
3.8
Where to Watch
Summary For the first time in movie history, audiences will truly see and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Walking with Dinosaurs is the ultimate immersive experience, utilizing state of the art 3D to put audiences in the middle of a thrilling and epic prehistoric world, where an underdog dino triumphs to become a hero for t...
Directed By: Barry Cook, Neil Nightingale
Written By: John Collee, Gerry Swallow, David Skelly, Joseph Lidster
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
37
24% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
48% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
37
24% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
48% Negative
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
Purists may still quail at the little bit of anthropomorphism going on, but it seems a small price to pay to broaden the audience for a family film that seeks to do more than just entertain.
Strange hybrid of science lesson and Saturday-morning cartoon.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
3.8
23% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
20% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
57% Negative
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
3.8
23% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
20% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
57% Negative
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
Walking with dinosaurs is focused towards younger viewers. It stops to identify the different types of dinosaurs in the film, and it is very light-hearted.
The plot is sort of a coming of age story, and involves a Bambi-like loss of family. And a journey about growing up and learning to survive, and eventually lead. Not too deep, but really, no one came to see it for the plot. They came to see dinosaurs. Which there are many. Also possums?
It also has a talking prehistoric bird named Alex, who is the fantastically hilarious protagonist and narrator of the story. Ignore the other dinosaur that narrates. It is about Alex.
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A hyper-realistic-looking, character-driven story of survival with talking dinosaurs that can't decide whether to inform or entertain. The film and its featured creatures do a little of both but modestly.
For a film that purports to love dinosaurs, this bigger, flashier Walking With Dinosaurs sure doesn’t trust them to be interesting enough to carry five minutes of a movie without the copious aid of slapstick and bathroom humor in a screenplay so rote it makes creatures that have been dead for 65 million years feel less fossilized than the jokes.
Unfortunately, the only thing that dies harder in the movies than natural selection is careworn cliché, and Barry Cook and Neil Nightingale’s movie about a plucky, lovestruck pachyrhinosaurus named Patchi subjects our long defunct earthly ancestors to a fate arguably worse than extinction: a life lived in a world of cheese.
The strain to make the film both an educational tool and a child-minded entertainment is noticeable throughout.
It was maddening and frustrating to watch so much ambition wasted on delivering such lame junk. Very young children, I suspect, will like it, but the closer viewers are to puberty, the less likely it is to hold their interest.
I think this movie is amazing in my opinion. I love the selection of dinosaurs like the Pachyrhinosaurus and the Gorgosaurus. I actually like the voice actors of the characters and i think this is a very enjoyable movie for everyone who loves dinosaurs.
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It's one part educational with impressive visuals, and one part goofy kids movie with irritating voice overs and dialog. For every time you learn about how a dinosaur acted or what their name meant, your going to have to deal with the lame jokes tossed out by the characters who just won't shut up. As far as the humor goes, only the youngest of audiences will get any laughs. Older audiences like myself will be left rolling their eyes. It makes for a great movie for the young dinosaur fanatic in your house, but that doesn't mean you'll enjoy watching it with them. While I appreciate that the film tries to each kids as much as it tries to make them laugh, the history lesson and childish humor don't mesh together in a way that will make this all that entertaining for their parents. Adults might get a slight kick out of seeing some cool dinosaurs looking great on screen, but this is one for the young dinosaur lovers. The younger the better, and there's not necessarily anything wrong with that. My total score for the film is a 6.4/10=Okay.
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For those who watched the excellent "Walking With Dinosaurs" series on the BBC many moons ago, don't expect anything approaching that level here. It's harmless and inoffensive, but TOO harmless and inoffensive.
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Walking with dinosaurs may be the funniest film of the year, but that doesn't mean that it's a good one, with its simple interpretation, simplistic plot and boring story-telling. This is probably, one of the worsts films of the year, or maybe of the worsts films ever.
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This could’ve been decent. The animation was nice and this film could’ve been a nice, relaxing experience even if the dinosaurs were CGI. I enjoy documentaries and this one could’ve been no different. Unfortunately, this was ruined by the dubbing. Now dubbing the film was bad enough in itself as it clearly feels tacked on and takes you out of it but to take a step further this is bad dubbing. Think of those Dragonball Z abridged videos except with none of the whit. The dubbing makes this film painful to watch as it is generic and cliché and gives us the most basic of stories. Had this film not been dubbed it could’ve been a nice little film but as is it is awful. I wouldn’t recommend watching it unless you have toddlers who couldn’t care less but if you want to watch it get the DVD as it has a feature that turns of the dialogue. Its amazing how far the dubbing goes in making this film torture to watch but it does and the opening and beginning of this film was pointless and stupid.
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Production Company
Animal Logic,
BBC Earth MD (WWD),
BBC Earth,
BBC Worldwide,
Evergreen Films,
Evergreen MD,
Prairie Pictures,
Reliance Big Entertainment,
StormStock
Release Date Dec 20, 2013
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating PG
Tagline The Greatest Adventure in 70 Million Years
Awards
Cinema Audio Society, USA
• 1 Nomination
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 1 Nomination