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Stumbled upon this while looking for the infinitely better Prehistoric Planet. I thought it was a cheesily bad movie from the looks of it, but nope, its the absolurd bottom of the bottom of the berrel.

The story is a generic "plane crashes on Dino Island" found footage film, with a framing device of soldiers watching found footage and making annoying comments

There are barely any dinosaurs seen until the end, and only litterally for a couple secs. It's just generic raptor and t. Rex we see, that's it and nothing else. Otherwise, iyts just a bunch of unmemorable characters wandering about and fighting.

Do not ever watch. There is nothing to it.

I'm well aware Imax 3D films, especially the kind limited to museum theatres, aren't usually the best kind of cinema, but this doc takes the cake. The all CG is undetailed, stiff, and unappealing and is surpassed by games, the acting (even by the basics of this subgenre) is mediocre sat best and flat all around, the plot structure is whizzing around from setpiece to setpiece with little time to soak anything in, and I feel like I learnt nothing from it. I mean, its supposedly about the origin of birds from non[-avian dinosaurs, but it feels so unfocused I can't get it.

If you see it at your local science centre or museum, pass on it.

When I first saw this as an ad when I was 9, I thought it was most hilarious thing ever with the mention of dinosaur penis. However, I never got to see it in full. However, after a decade and a year, someone has uploaded it in full, and So I watched it.

Its actually a decent documentary. It handles its subject in a pretty tasteful manner and actually goes into detail on how we can determine how dinosaur gonads were by looking at birds, the only surviving dinosaurs, and crocodilians, both their closest relatives. The music, while nothing special, are decent for what they are.

Mind there are some errors that take it down for me, some of which are from science findings newer discoveries and further research. The t. rex is a Jurassic Park knockoff with feathers pasted on, the stegosaurus has no neck and has moveable plates (they were relatively immobile), and the sauropod has elephant feet (sauropods didn't have those kind). With also just three dinosaurs in it, it also does feel a little barebones overall.

The visuals aren't too bad, though they're nothing compared to Walking With Dinosaurs or even Discovery's Dinosaur Planet, When Dinosaurs Roamed America, Dinosaur Revolution, or even the much maligned Clash of the Dinosaurs and Monsters Resurrected, being rather stiff and unfluid in comparison.

On a personal note, I honestly wish this was an entire multipart series about the cruder aspects of dinosaurs, like poop and coprolites, guts, and scavenging.

While not the best doc I've seen or by Discovery, its a decent watch I could see again and again.