Prehistoric Park Movie Review

If you have seen 'Chased by Dinosaurs' with our favorite time adventurer Nigel Marven running around with BBC quality dinosaur computer graphic animation, then you will know what to expect. Nigel is his normal crazy self, except this time he just isn't into seeing these animals, he is into capturing them for his new 'Prehistoric Park.'

Nigel's Prehistoric Park is a large park with several different environmental paddocks or fenced in pasture areas for the animals he intends to keep there. Some of the environments are inside buildings as there is a need to try to maintain the environmental conditions of the Earth at the time when these animals lived in order to try to keep them alive in our time, such as the difficulty described in the video concerning maintaining Pre-Cambrian environmental conditions which were a lot more humid and the air was a lot more oxygenized.

The additions to his park range from a lonely mammoth, a pair of sabre-tooth tigers, a squad of bipedal ostrich-like animals, a terror-bird, a couple of T-rex's, a wooly rhinoceros, a giant centipede, a giant scorpion, a giant dragonfly, microraptors, a giant crocodile, a small herd of gigantic herbivores (Titanosaurs - which keep running amuck all over the park), as well as a fiesty triceratops.

Keep in mind that these are not the only creatures that Nigel runs into. These are just the shopping list he has for his Prehistoric Park. There are more things that Nigel and his crew have to contend with including a tribe of prehistoric humans.

Adventure abounds in Nigel's search for these various creatures. Different terrains and environmental conditions add to the interesting story-lines that are pursued. These are also made more 'realistic' by the trouble one can have with various equipment and the havoc that can be played with campsites and native wildlife.

The packaging is high quality rate, quality of the DVD's themselves was of a norm with these sorts of products. The set is 3 DVD's and runs approximately 4 hours and 18 minutes.

I found the story lines pleasing though somewhat overdone, the computer graphic special effects were first rate and the attention to hazards and notions of trying to survive in those times somewhat interesting. I will have to admit that I watch these sorts of productions more for the interpretive value of what scientists think prehistoric conditions and life was like, but the entertainment value was there as was expected.