Dinosaur

Stephen, Stephen, Stephen... did you lose a bet? Did you lose all your money on the stock market? Why are you doing this to your reputation? WWD did this far more thoroughly, far more entertainingly and far far far more realistically 24 years ago (and you can still buy/rent it) Whomever green lit this cheap, nastly knock off needs to be fined, fired and flogged. Perhaps the fate of some of the heroes in Fry's tremendous book Mythos would be more apropriate than a simple flogging? If I hadn't seen the channel 5 logo in the corner of the screen, I would have imagined that this garbage was straight off the History charnel, it really is that bad.

As a low-budget documentary, I can understand forgiving bad CGI, but using dinosaur models that are so vastly different from actual scientific facts is unacceptable. A documentary should have used accurate models of dinosaurs. This is not a documentary, it's just a fantasy film.

Not only are the terrible dinosaur models a problem, but the lack of authenticity is also woefully outdated and incorrect. This is a serious mistake for a documentary that should be providing accurate information. This documentary appears to create a lot of incorrect knowledge and misconceptions for the general public who may not know much about dinosaurs.

This is truly the worst documentary without a doubt.

I think I'm not exaggerating by saying that this is the worst piece of prehistoric-themed documentary ever made. Dinosaur with Stephen Fry contains ALL the worst aspects that a show could ever have. First of all, the scientific informations are mostly WRONG, some of them being outdated, like the Allosaurus axe-jaws, and some others being just straight up absurd: a major example are the biomechanic experiments, which are among the worst aspscts of this show. For example, we have steel T.rex teeth crushing a brick like if real teeth could do such a thing, or metal Allosaurus jaws slashing through a watermelon. To conclude with, sometimes they just contradict themselves in a really goofy way (EG: showing flowers after saying that in Jurassic flowers haven't evolved yet). Not everything is wrong, but even when we have correct informations, the show is so shallow, it really doesn't deliver any kind of useful, new, or unusual advice.

Another problem is that the entire show's concept doesn't work: Stephen Fry is completely out of place here. He clearly doesn't know what he's talking about, and his recitation feels so unconvincing, flat and cringeworthy, he's almost never funny or even slightly intringuing. So yeah, all of these things can be summed up as: bad writing.

Finally, to say it short, models and CGI look atrocious. Keep in mind that, before its release, the promos talked about "hyper-realistic visuals". And yeah, I'm blaming the CGI as one of the main issues, because such a bad graphic is undeniably part of what makes this show so unpleasant to watch.

So, to conclude with, if you want to spare your time, just stay away from this. Now let's wait for Prehistoric Planet 2 hell yeah.

Stephen Fry is an intelligent , charismatic and interesting man, however, largely illiterate when it comes to science. This faecal fantasy (and a couple of other pop-science shows he's leant his gravitas to recently) show either he is being poorly advised by his agent and/or young husband or he has lost any sense of self reflection - if you hold a position of omniscience in the psyche of the public like Mr Fry you must be able to judge the veracity of what you're being asked to read as fact. Otherwise you're just misinforming the public as well as taking work away from qualified presenters innit. Do some documentaries on literature or philosophy or summit else you're qualified in Ste.

Most of what is in this show is very broad stroke and pretty uninteresting if you've read a book or been to a museum in the last 20 years. Some of is contradictory even within the same episode and some proposals are a real stretch (although in science all hypothesis are just that, I suppose) Thankfully there are a couple of reasonable experts (Dr S Maidment for example) who refer to the fossil record when answering the rather ignorant and childlike questions they've been compelled to address and who do make it clear theories are theories - even good ones - in their responses.

Basically avoid at all costs, unless you've a very small child who's not old enough to read but you need to distract for a few minutes, whilst you finish dinner/clean to loo/reply to emails.

I am not particularly interested in dinosaurs, but I adore Stephen Fry and will watch more or less anything he is in.

It says this show is from 2023 and features "hyper-realistic representation of the jungles of the Jurassic period".

In reality, CGI is bad.

And I am talking abysmally bad, like from 25+ years ago. Some scenes comically so, like the early blue screens with halos around.

I could not even finish it, despite Mr. Fry.

Also, IMDB, please rethink your policy on review length. I have already said everything and you still want 166 characters more. Well, here they are, are you happy now?