If you’ve got kids who want to sift through some special features after a four-hour movie, then you have some amazingly well behaved children. Who knows? You could hit the Parent’s Jackpot: if your kids end up enjoying this mammoth affair, you just got a babysitter who works in four-hour blocks. The content is certainly family-friendly enough for the wee ones, but I’d say give it a rental first. I found Dinotopia a painfully trite and wholly silly affair, though there’s no telling how your kids may take to it. The two leads offer precisely one emotion apeice: one’s moody, one’s awestruck. Katie Carr (as Dinotopia’s lilting princess) brings a fragile paleness to the proceedings the likes of which haven’t been seen since Jennifer Beals offered her interpretation of Frankenstein’s bride.
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The acting is uniformly TV quality, though generally reliable actor David Thewlis manages to add some entertaining touches to his too-few scenes. and actually learn something in the process! Sure, there’s heaping helpings of CGI dinosaurs lurking here, there, and everywhere - but I can see that on a Discovery Channel special. just icky.) Subtle socio-political brainwashing aside, nothing in the script for Dinotopia comes close to being worthy of your attention. (And I haven’t even gotten to the scenes in which humans and dinos are emotionally linked. It would be a sweet idea if it weren’t so damn creepy. If that’s not enough to have your eyes rolling, just get a load of Dinotopia’s codes: nobody eats meat, nobody owns a weapon, everyone coos nicely, nobody ever disagrees.
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Sure, the concept might lend itself well to a novel or a comic strip, but in a movie - it’s just ridiculous.
It seems that our two young heroes have surfaced on a land in which human beings and dinosaurs live together in perfect harmony. Their first encounter is with a devious scientist called Crabb, who offers them some information and some questionable advice. The lumbering plot centers around David and Karl, two bickering half-brothers who - courtesy of a poorly-photographed plane crash - end up stranded on the titular island. I think the commercials may be a slight improvement. I’d be willing to deal with a lot of advertisements for something of obvious quality…but in the case of Dinotopia.
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Originally presented over three nights (2 hours each) on network TV, Dinotopia comes to home video on a 2-DVD set, and whaddaya know? The movie runs just under four hours! For those not real fluent in math, I’ll give you the short version: if you watched Dinotopia on television, then you withstood two full hours of TV commercials. Sure, you may have a few dino-loving rugrats who could embrace this bloated silliness solely due to the myriad creatures - but woe is any parent who’s forced to sit through this ridiculously plotted and criminally overlong spectacle. During the first two episodes, he's determined to leave Dinotopia, but near the first half of the second episode, he accepts that he now lives on Dinotopia.What a goofball idea this Dinotopia mini-series was, and it’s certainly no better in execution than it was in inception. Later in the TV series, Frank's personality has changed slightly. When he saw dinosaurs for the first time, Frank was amazed. Frank is able to save them, and they leave the hard way, with sunstones, after the submarine they came in is destroyed. Frank stayed down there for some time, before his sons and their companion, Cyrus Crabb, came down looking for the World Beneath, wanting sunstones. Though, unbeknownst to him, he has stumbled upon the World Beneath. Luckily, however, Frank is able to undo his seatbelt at the last second, and swim to what he thinks is the surface. He silently demands they go, and they, unwillingly, leave him to drown. Karl and David successfully unbuckle their seatbelts, but their father's is jammed.
Unable to control the plane, they crash in to the ocean. He decides to let the latter pilot the plane as he sleeps, confident he can fly it, but they suddenly unexpectedly hit a storm. He meets with his two sons, Karl and David, and they fly in his plane over the ocean for a holiday. He lived in New York City, presumably divorced from his wife, Joanna. This article, or section, may contain spoilers! Read on at own risk!Īt the beginning of the miniseries, Frank Scott is as a successful businessman, leading a very active social life.
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