"prehistoric Park"

Description: Created by UK independent producers Impossible Pictures, the multi award-winning creators of the Walking With ... series, Prehistoric Park follows wildlife expert, Nigel Marven, and his team of zoologists as they travel back in time to rescue some of the most amazing animals who ever roamed the earth and transport them back thousands of years to the present day to be nurtured in Prehistoric Park. With the aid of the latest CGI technology, Prehistoric Park brings animals to life in a truly unique way. These magnificent, beautiful creatures interact with Nigel and his team so closely that will keep viewers highly amused and always amazed! With an inventive combination of zoology, geology, paleontology, archaeology and time travel, Prehistoric Park offers both a bone-rattling good time and a lesson in natural history throughout each exciting episode. So take a journey with Nigel’s team back in time and watch as they brave a strange new world to convey these creatures from certain extinction to a new existence - in Prehistoric Park! (Barnes & Noble) This is a fabulous, entertaining little series. My sons LOVE them- its kind of Walking With Dinosaurs meets the Crocodile Hunter. Nigel is wonderful, the dinosaurs are well-done, and the pace keeps right on movin’. Put this with Chased By Dinosaurs, and you have a ton of fun. I hope he does more seasons of this! We want to know what happens next, and what animals Nigel will bring back next, at Prehistoric Park! If you’re going to rip something off, you’d better do it right. This series does. With almost 6 hours to work with, they can pack more types of creatures into the story than a feature film can, and they can spend more time giving us a glimpse of what it may be like to deal with the day-to-day problems such a unique park would generate. It’s a bit heavy-handed on the preaching of the theory of evolution, but if you believe in that, or can let it bounce right off you if you don’t and just enjoy the other aspects of the show, it’s quite entertaining. I’d like to say it’s quite educational as well, but I’ve heard from other sites that the paleontology behind the show may be questionable, so take the purported facts with a grain of salt. I gave it 4 stars rather than 5 for the preachiness and for one minor technical flaw: The CGI employed here seems a little below par when compared to the "Walking With" series in one respect. The computer generated images are nice and sharp when the prehistoric creatures are up close, but then get a bit soft as they get farther from the "camera". This may have been done intentionally to try to give a feeling of depth, but if so it failed miserably. It could also have been the result of over-compression of the DVD, but I didn’t notice any corresponding loss of sharpness on the non-CGI elements of the shots.