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Walking with Monsters

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • 30m
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8.2/10
2.6K
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Walking with Monsters (2005)
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The final installment in the "Walking with" series is a 90-minute documentary about the evolution of life before the dinosaurs.The final installment in the "Walking with" series is a 90-minute documentary about the evolution of life before the dinosaurs.The final installment in the "Walking with" series is a 90-minute documentary about the evolution of life before the dinosaurs.

  • Stars
    • Kenneth Branagh
    • Edward Gero
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    8.2/10
    2.6K
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    • Stars
      • Kenneth Branagh
      • Edward Gero
    • 11User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 1 win & 1 nomination total

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    10EugeneandSasha

    Possibly the Best Documentary Of All Time!

    What can I say, Walking With Monsters is quite possibly the greatest documentary ever. It is thrilling, suspenseful, action-packed, entertaining, and educational.

    It portrays the constant struggle of life before the dinosaurs. It has some excellent CGI and music. The way it shows the prehistoric creatures are far better than how I imagined they would be.

    No scenes bored me and I was always enthralled and at the edge of my seat. If you want to see a good documentary see this one. It exceeds in everything and far surpasses Dinosaur Planet and Walking With dinosaurs.

    This is a spectacular documentary not to be missed.

    My Rating: 9.9/10
    9CommanderSalamander

    Explores something most documentaries don't explore

    I've have never seen a documentary explore the time before the dinosaurs, so I love this for trying! The only problem is that this documentary is too short, and should explore the age and evolution of reptiles more. But, it is a very good documentary to watch.
    10MlleSedTortue

    The Best of the Walking With series.

    Waling with Dinosaurs may be the most fondly remembered of the series, but I'd place this as the best of the Walking With series. Talking the lessons learned from the prior series, the filmmakers seek to push the limits by giving the audience what is quite literally a more in-depth look at the fascinating life before the dinosaurs. It may be shorter than the others, and inevitably suffers from some inaccuracies, but it's nonetheless an engaging and thrilling experience.
    10dbborroughs

    Lead up to Walking With Dinosaurs is its equal

    The latest Walking with special follows life from one celled animals in the sea until the advent of dinosaurs. Its a thrilling trip that is the equal to the original series. Here the series looks not only at life at various times through the ages but also gives you a sense of how the various creatures may have evolved by having time lapse shots of the creatures moving up the evolutionary ladder. This is great stuff and the perfect way to begin a marathon look at how life has grown and changed over the eons. While there is the inevitable eat or be eaten theme to the whole thing you do get a nice sens that there is more to it all then just that. Also what we see here dovetails nicely with the other Walking specials so that when put together you get a sense of how life moves and evolves not only for dinosaurs but even now.

    A must see, especially when coupled with the other series
    6Corvus-9

    Visually stunning but shallow docudrama

    Interesting docudrama about life on Earth before the dinosaurs. Excellent CGI and scientific information is marred by an overly simplified and sensationalized presentation. Hundreds of millions of years of evolution are condensed into about a half-dozen scenes. Information about ecology and the food web is ignored in favor of scenes of large carnivores attacking each other.

    I am curious how they determined the behavior, colouration, and sounds of these creatures. The arthropods are so loud that one would think that prey would be able to hear them coming. I was also not aware that amphibians and reptiles roar like lions.

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    • Trivia
      Very late into production it was discovered that Megarachne, the basis of the giant spider seen in the Carboniferous segment was actually an eurypterid or sea scorpion like those seen in the Silurian part. The crew decided then to rename their now obsolete creature "Mesothelae", after the most primitive group of living spiders. There were Mesothelae spiders in the Carboniferous, but just not that big.
    • Alternate versions
      There are two widely available variations of the show's original British version:
      • One that has all three episodes being separate. This version has previews and recaps at the beginning and end of each episode. Also, at the very end there is a never-before-seen shot of an Allosaurus walking on a Jurassic plain.
      • The other version combines the three episodes into a one-and-a-half hour long movie, with the episodes flowing together. This one lacks the new shot of the Allosaurus. It begins with primordial Earth being shown from afar, whereas the other version lacks this shot and starts out with a closer view. It also has an extended ending, with more stock footage taken from Walking with Dinosaurs (1999) as the narrator talks about the mammals' ancestors. The other version lacks this scene.
    • Connections
      Edited into Primeval: The Chase Continues (2009)

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    • Release date
      • November 5, 2005 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Before the Dinosaurs
    • Filming locations
      • Devils Postpile National Monument, California, USA(Devonian scenes)
    • Production companies
      • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
      • Discovery Channel
      • France 3
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      • 30m
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      • 1.78 : 1

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