From the makers of Walking With Dinosaurs and Walking With Beasts this is an epic and entertaining new exploration of life before dinosaurs, when a succession of fantastical... more
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Advantages: Great graphics and you're convinced the critters are actually there Disadvantages: Doesn't quite live up to Walking with Dinosaurs as a prequel and relatively short
...of both previous series - Walking with Dinosaurs followed by Walking with Beasts, I saw this in Woolies and didn't even know it had been on TV, quite a nice surprise. So I bought it at the fairly reasonable price of £12.99 and headed home with high expectations. Since then I have also noticed one called Walking with Cave Men, which is next on my list.
Rather than containing two discs, like the other series', this is only one, and I must say I was ... ...this series which I think Walking with Dinosaurs lacked, is a sense of time and it's effect. In these episodes they document the activities of a creature then focus in on it and show a time scale and as this moves along the creature evolves on screen into another species, evolved from the parent species, which is then documented as well. I thought this worked really effectively as in the dinos series it was at times hard to follow what was happening ...
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Plot: From the makers of Walking With Dinosaurs and Walking With Beasts this is an epic and entertaining new exploration of life before dinosaurs, when a succession of fantastical animals and plants ruled the planet. With the aid of scientific and computer technology a time is recreated when a two-tonne predatory fish came on land to hunt, and four-metre sea scorpions sliced sushi in the shallows, and when just one species of lumbering reptile represented eighty per cent of all life.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): 2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO; SONY DADC
Release date: 21/11/2005
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: BBCDVD 1750
Barcode: 5014503175023
Producer: Chloe Leland
DVD Description
From the makers of Walking With Dinosaurs and Walking With Beasts this is an epic and entertaining new exploration of life before dinosaurs, when a succession of fantastical animals and plants ruled the planet. With the aid of scientific and computer technology a time is recreated when a two-tonne predatory fish came on land to hunt, and four-metre sea scorpions sliced sushi in the shallows, and when just one species of lumbering reptile represented eighty per cent of all life.
Languages
Main Language: English
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