After a plane crash, two opposing half-brothers find themselves on an amazing lost island where enlightened pacifist humans and intelligent talking dinosaurs have created a utopian medieval society. But imminent disaster approaches.
Dinotopia Miniserie, ダイノトピア 謎の恐竜王国, Dinotopia - Miniseries
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my favorite things about this miniseries:
- it’s called dinotopia
- no one is allowed to leave dinotopia
- “scaly” is used as a slur against dinosaurs
- lupin from harry potter tries to start a race war
- a young man names his baby dinosaur “26”
- it’s over four fucking hours
- it took me over 3 weeks to finish it
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
5
A young man and a grad-student dinosaur play Ping Pong together, using ancient Dinotopia scrolls as the net.
wildly unrealistic. like i just don't think one guy could wear the EXACT same pair of jorts for literal months and have them emerge intact
JORTS: THE MINISERIES
in hindsight this is perhaps the most random thing i watched like 100 times as a kid. we used to always be doing laundry for some reason and like the big chore for me and 2 of my siblings was to do huge amounts of laundry i literally cant even fathom it looking back but anyway we would have days where we were doing laundry and we would always put on a movie to keep ourselves entertained and they were always the longest movies we had like titanic was one of them also troy which is a movie i think ive only seen while doing laundry and also this movie which i guess isnt a movie but i didnt even…
The future liberals want
can we watch dinotopia now
will you be a fucking man and watch dinotopia with me
The perfect film for when your mom wants to do an only hallmark movie holiday marathon and you really don't wanna see the same cookie cutter romcom for the 50th time. Dinos always come in clutch. Idk what to say about this actually hense the dumb review. It's cool and I'd love to revisit this with the doubled run time if only to see more of best boy Zippo. I've also had a plush of 26 since 02 so like I felt obligated to revisit this anyways since they're in like a 2ft distance from me. The Phantom Menace, Fellowship of the Ring, Megabloks Dragons, Lego Power Miners combined into a cool lore heavy dinomite thingy. Neat
So this is what Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) was up to before meeting The Flash...
Despite its flaws, there's definitely something charming about this little series. Dinosaurs living alongside humans is a pretty neat, if ridiculous, concept. I probably would have loved this when I was a kid, but somehow it escaped my radar back then. This series wastes no time getting right into the dino action and we see some fun designs. The CG effects aren't bad either. Some of the line deliveries were pretty rough and the story starts to drag as it goes on, but overall, I think this is a cute little project despite its flaws.
My childhood in a nut shell, I gotta go and revisit this. This is like Avatar on steroids. Or something like that aha
There are two major problems, though to my pleasant surprise, neither of them is the circa-2002 television CGI. They are by no means the best dinosaurs that visual effects technology could supply then, let alone now, but they've been lit well enough to fit in with the bright cinematography, and some care has gone into the animation.
But I was talking about the problems. First and foremost: this really should have been a two-part miniseries, not a three-parter; there's not really enough story for three hours, but there's damn sure not enough story for four and a half. A ton of the story that there is in either case is lumbering world-building that remains perversely unclear and half-baked, given how…
this was fine! loved the dinosaurs, made me want a fruitopia
