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Summary: An ALRIGHT Script and Acting.... by FilmBoy
Review: A dad and his boys (Carl and David) get planewrecked. They think the dad drowns. Did he?? Carl and David are planewrecked on Dinotopia, a land with dinosaurs and people. They meet a nice girl named Marion, who likes dinosaurs. They both have crushes on her. Carl gets a little baby dinosaur to take care of and David gets a pteronadon flying job. They both don't exactly LIKE their jobs. They see T-Rexes, which were cool. The island's source of power is rocks that give light. Sometimes they'll go black and won't work. So Carl and David go with a professor guy to find more rocks in the World Beneath. Will they find more rocks, and will they survive????My favorite person-character is either the girl or Carl. My favorite dinosaur-character is the T-Rexes or the brachiosaurus buses. I think it's an ALRIGHT script and ALRIGHT acting. Ever After has much better acting and script. See that!
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Summary: Entertainment and Not Much Else
Review: A diverting, involving fantasy about two (generally repulsive) half-brothers who enter the utopian Dinotopia and must attempt to save it from disaster. The script, plotting and characterization are fairly mediocre. The heroine, Marion, and some of the dinosaurs are the most charming characters. The filmmakers would have done well to stick a little closer to the superior original book. Still, it's fun to watch (if for not much more reason than the dinosaurs and cool architecture) and is an example of entertainment that's entertaining and little else.
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Summary: Great Story, Great Graphics, and Bad Acting
Review: Just like The Snow Queen, this movie has a really super storyline and keeps you interested, if you can grin and bear the acting, or lack there of.
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Summary: FUN MOVIE
Review: i saw some of the reviews on this site about dinotopia and most of them were right but one named inre said it was not suitable for children and the review was totally crazy. anyway this movie is suitable for children and has great special effects and a nice story. its suitable for any age! its a great story and fun to watch. i recomend this film.
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Summary: Medievil meets Jurassic Park! Shakespeare without Swordplay!
Review: Talk about your FAIRY TALES!DinUtopia would have been a better title, just as the whole plotline needed a lot of work. Even the basic ideas of this Communist Paradise where everyone can run around in such a primitive environment without even knives for defense (WEAPONS ARE EVIL!!) strikes one as even sillier than Mother Goose or the Brothers Grimm, especially when one is supposed to accept THIS fairy tale as near serious work. About the only saving grace for this is the CGI work. This one is definitely going back to eBay!
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Summary: The best made for TV movie ever
Review: The reviewer who compared Communist China to Dinotopia missed the mark by failing to realize this movie is what some people call a "fantasy." It made for a good TV movie. Much better than I thought it would be. It held my interest throughout the entire series although towards the end it lost a little steam. I'm giving it 4 stars because of one of the brothers. I can't remember which one because it's been so long since I've seen this. The one with the really short hair is a horrible actor. Even the talking dinosaur acts better than this guy.
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Summary: surpub
Review: Ian this is a vary good film its fun and exiting from beginning to end
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Summary: WARNING to American parents.
Review: I have serious problems with this "childrens" film. Here are some of the elements of the story that I think worth mentioning. It's about a matriarchal, agricultural "Utopian" society. Modern technology is almost nonexistent and discouraged. A woman rules the island with a clenched fist hidden behind her saccharin smile. Alice Krige (back in a part reminiscent of her Borg queen role) is downright creepy as The Leader. Anyone marooned on the island is immediately registered with the society and told what worker role they are required to live out. For life. No one is ever allowed to leave the island. Children in Society schools are programmed to believe that the Group is paramount and the individual is nothing. They are taught they are no more valuable and have no more right to live than lizards and other animals. They must memorize and recite The Code (Commandments) which lays all this out. They are graded on this. Citizens are told that all weapons are Evil. Even for defense. Marauding carnivorous dinosaurs are to be "appeased" and served. Citizens are required to eat vegetables and fruit since meat eating is disrespectful to animals. All citizens are required to have and are assigned a dinosaur mate to have "spiritual union" with. This film goes on and on like this, delivering the same not so subtle messages to its young audience. Are these the values for American children? Sounds more like an indoctrination film from Communist China.
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Summary: Wow
Review: It took me about a day and a half to watch it because of the length, but it was awesome, I would like to see it at a movie theater!! My friend lent me the movie and I was suprised of how fast paced it was considering it was about four hours long, some long movies take awhile to pick up, but not this one! This one was exciting from start to finsih and I would buy it for myself if i had the money :). Dinotopia is AWESOME!!!!!
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Summary: Wheres an asteroid when you really need one?
Review: Poor ABC. They havent been doing too well latley. In an effort to save themselfes, they made a TV movie called Dinotopia. Sadley, this movie and the series that is following it, have failed mysrembly. Way back, about 4 years ago, when I heard that ABC was doing a adaption of Dinotopia, I was very excited, being a gargantuan fan of books. I was very excited when they started the movie on ABC. When it was over, I simply sat stunned, amazed at how BAD the adaption of one of my favorite book series was. Ok, its more like a semi-adaption, because the movie takes place in the modern era. One day, a father and his 2 sons take of in a small airplane. The father decides to take a nap and let his sons fly the plane. 4 hours later,They stupidly fly into a hurricane and unsiprisingly, they crash, and, you gussed it, the dad perishes. From that point on, the movies flaws hatch out of thier shells and start running amuck. For one thing, what father would let his sons pilot a plane? How could the 2 kids survive in a hurricane with no raft, no life jackets, no flares etc. for over 5 hours? After landing on the island, they meet a suspicoious man who befriends them and takes them to some poorly constructed sets, I mean village. There they encounter a terrifying poorly made CGI dinosaur that is subdued by a lady (A very attractive lady of course) and then they head for waterfall city. From that point on, they try to adapt to life in a dino island while trying to survive being complete idiots. They love to swear (Nothing big, this being a ABC film), love to hate each other, and are completly obsessed with getting away. So much in fact that one of them takes a stone that powers a villiage in exchange for a rowboat to sail home with, a useless map, and no provisions. And on top of that, he has to sail across a deadly reef, find a path home with no compass, and dont forget that he flew for over 4 hours before crashing and that he had to stay afloat for over 5 hours. And there is a hurricane on the horizon. You really wonder how these people managed to get through grade school. These errors are everywhere. The mayor of Waterfall city is a complete arrogant stuborn idiot who refuses to evacuate anybody when killer birds are heading straight for the city, even though they have a few hours to evacuate. (In the series, how come they can evacuate everybody in a few hours while they cant in the movie?) My favorite part of the movie is how dumb some of the moments can be later on in the movie, along with some continuity errors.
The World Beneath, which is breathtaking in the books, meerly consists of 1 or 2 tunnels used over and over agian, and a tiny crystal cavern. In these tunnels our heroes encounter one of the least suprising plot twists in T.V. movie history. (How did he get there?) The continuity errors are hysterical. At one point, a skybak instructor tells the students that if thier bird dosent show up, they can never be skybak riders. Of course, our heroes bird dosent show up and he fails, yet when he tries again, he passes and the instructor does nothing. When a charachter is attacked by another charachter, tossed in a sack and tossed into a river to die, he shows up, unharmed and none the worse for wear a few scenes later with no explenation as to how he got there. Huh? The biggest flaw in the entire film has got to be the final battle, where Evil Pteridactals attack waterfall city. That sounds Ok, but in execution, the scene is unintentionally hilarious. When the birds attack, all the citizens run around screaming, yet nobody thinks about running inside a building. Our heroes arrive just in time, and in a atrociously poorly animated sequence, they manage to help save the city. And come on, Pteridactals are really LAME villians. Why not a Tyranosaur? (They only show up once for about a minute early on) There is however, one bright spot. Zippo the librarian is a funny, interesting charachtewr that is the best actor in the entire film. The list just goes on and on, and I'm out of room, so in closing, no matter how you cut it, Dinotopia is a Brachiasour sized disaster. The good:
Zippo
Some unintentially funny scenes
you can have fun counting out all the bad elements in the film The bad:
none The ugly:
atrocious acting
bad script
lousy CGI effects
bad sets
lots of continuity errors Summary:
Only good for those who have never read the books. People who love the books will be seiously offended by this
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