- For nearly 200 million years while dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the seas teemed with some of the most awe-inspiring ocean creatures of all time. Sea Monsters, a National Geographic Giant Screen film, is an entertaining journey into prehistoric oceans. Inter-cutting between the animated story and the reenactments of fossil discoveries combine the appeal of ?Indiana Jones? with the CGI that brings th
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For nearly 200 million years while dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the seas teemed with some of the most awe-inspiring ocean creatures of all time. Sea Monsters, a National Geographic Giant Screen film, is an entertaining journey into prehistoric oceans. Inter-cutting between the animated story and the reenactments of fossil discoveries combine the appeal of “Indiana Jones” with the CGI that brings these prehistoric monsters to life. Perfect for the whole family.Amazon.comMore >>
Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
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#1 by Justin Carlyle on April 19, 2010 - 9:53 am
I thought this would complement nicely my large collection on the prehistoric. And it still might, if ever I get to watch it. Twice from Amazon, and once from another vendor, I purchased this dvd — and it wouldn’t play on my player. Nothing wrong with my Sony — everything else plays fine — and they were all marked Region 1. So there’s a problem at the manufacturing end. I’m dumbfounded that others haven’t reported this. I’m the only one? And bought it three different times?
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Tiger Chen on April 19, 2010 - 12:33 pm
I guess I was a little disappointed that this whole film was computer created animation even though the images were realistic. If you enjoy watching prehistoric creatures in action, this may be the video for you but I enjoy “live” animals much much more so I was really not too turned on by this film.
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by CeeTee on April 19, 2010 - 3:29 pm
This film disappointed me. The animation is sub-par and the feature itself is too short. The background story is weak and the music sounds like it was generated from a MIDI program on a kids PC. Save you money and rent it instead. This film is not in the same class of quality as the “walking with” series.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Ruined on April 19, 2010 - 5:56 pm
This Blu-ray Disc has excellent picture and sound. However, I found the movie itself to be lacking. First of all, the content of this movie could have been narrated in 15 minutes; as a result, the movie seems to repeat the same concept over and over again therefore being very predictable in where it is going.
Second of all, the movie was very obviously designed to be watched in 3-D. The effect is just not the same in 2-D as fish swim towards the screen in 2-D and objects awkwardly jut towards the camera. While I’m sure this movie was engaging in 3-D, watching at home in 2-D was actually rather boring and non-engaging.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed other National Geographic presentations on Blu-ray such as Relentless Enemies, however this one seems to be short on substance and designed for color 3-D delivery which is not really possible on Blu-ray yet. I’d avoid this despite its interesting sounding title.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by Clayton Bambrough on April 19, 2010 - 6:14 pm
I guess I expected too much from this show, and was let down when I saw it. It wasn’t extremely terrible, but it was terrible. THe CGI was very cheap looking, and it was way too short (of course they didn’t have much to work with).
Save your money and go buy Walking with Dinosaurs, its more expensive, but totally worth it. Even Dinosaur planet or When dinos roamed america is better, just don’t waste your time with this.
Rating: 2 / 5