72 Dangerous Animals: Latin America

Fairly decent but there is a certain amount of sensationalism to this show. Like putting so much emphasis on vampire bats which honestly aren't too big a threat. You can interact with those bats and not be bitten. And the claim that Chagas Disease isn't curable is wrong too.

I totally agree with the low raters. It's a pity, they couldn't make a real documentary about these beautiful, wonderful animals.

The original host as well as the german one speak like they would host a horror show or the like. It just sounds ridiculous. And the aggressive music throughout the whole show makes it worst.

On top of it there's barely useful information.

This series is everything but educational with occasionally even misleading or wrong information

It's a primitive representation of these wonderful animals, they even devalue them as creatures and killers, with an aggressively speaking host and even more aggressive music the whole series through!

If you want to scare your children, please show them this dreadful nonsense

Documentary noun 1. a movie or a television or radio program that provides a factual record or report. synonyms: factual program, factual film

This show should not be in the documentary category because it is more like a reality TV show for people who would get bored watching an actual documentary. It gives shallow inconsistent information about a bunch of animals and then proceeds to subjectively rank them in a game-show fashion. The music is melodramatic even in the most unrelated scenes, the narrator sounds like he's hosting Fear Factor, and the information given about the animals are completely arbitrary. The information varies from their venom etc, to their shamanic purposes and how shamans curse those who hunt the animal without holy permission etc. The ranking criteria is non-existent; the show claims to 'rank' the most dangerous animals, but then proceeds to rank non-deadly ants, venomous frogs, and stingrays in the same criteria, which is never clarified and is totally absurd. I still do not understand their rankings, is it pain, lethality, chance of encounter? Can anyone imagine BBC Planet Earth ranking biomes or species, it's just stupid. On top of this, the experts who are interviewed are not relevant in their fields, and gives the impression that the documentary makers just interviewed whoever they could get a hold of. This is as documentary-like as a History channel special about Aliens and Thanksgiving. If you're looking to get informed about wildlife, toxins, biology, or anything factual, then steer clear of this show. However, if you just want to sit down with your friends, get drunk, and mindlessly watch a weird gameshow-reality TV-documentary mashup, for giggles, then this show will not disappoint you.

Ther is an incredible amount of misinformation within this series. Most importantly they get the true size of most of the animals wrong. Bushmaster snakes isually reach about 6'-7.5' but they claim almost 13.12' much larger than the world record ever documented.. also during the boa constrictor segment the videos they used included not just boa constrictor imperators but also anacondas, Burmese pythons, dumerils boas, and reticulated pythons.. it seriously shouldnt be that hard to get your facts and images correct in a well funded film.