Dinotopia (TV Miniseries) | 
| Director: Marco Brambilla
Actors: Tyron Leitso, David Thewlis, Wentworth Miller, Katie Carr, Jim Carter
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  97 reviews
Sales Rank: 8074
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Miniseries, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 250 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: A012839
UPC: 707729128397
EAN: 0707729128397
ASIN: B0000687CX
Theatrical Release Date: May 12, 2002
Release Date: July 30, 2002
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Product Description
DINOTOPIA (DVD MOVIE)
Amazon.com
Kids will love this sweeping story of two brothers whose plane crashes on a mysterious island called Dinotopia, where human beings live in harmony with dinosaurs--the herbivores, anyway. The carnivores present a problem, as the humans' defenses against them--a mystical power source called sunstones--are losing strength. As they try to save the island, Carl and David (Tyron Leitso and Wentworth Miller) struggle not only with tyrannosaurs and prehistoric crocodiles, but also with repressive Dinotopian traditions and a scheming malcontent (David Thewlis) who stirs up all kinds of trouble. Meanwhile, they also wrestle with each other over the lovely daughter of the mayor of Waterfall City (Katie Carr). The pacifist ideals of Dinotopia are refreshing, but it's the special effects that will hook viewers: riding on the backs of brachiosaurs, flying atop pteranadons, arguing in court with triceratops and ankylosaurs--anyone fascinated with dinosaurs (and who isn't?) will enjoy this whimsical fantasy. A host of British character actors also helps keep the human side of this four-hour miniseries lively; Alice Krige (also known as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: The Next Generation) gets a much more benevolent role here. --Bret Fetzer
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| Customer Reviews: Read 92 more reviews...
 A great family movie April 14, 2009
Kimberlee Jones (South Carolina)
This a great family movie we love it and we injoyed and you will to if you get this.
Dinotopia DVD March 30, 2009
Charles R. Mercer Sr.
A fun family movie. Probably more suitable for 6yrs and over due to some violence. My young grandson loved it and re-watches it every now and then. I enjoyed it as well. Recommend it to all ages who like fantasy and dinosaurs.
Wonderful! January 11, 2009
Caiti (New Jersey)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just finished watching the Dinotopia miniseries with my boyfriend (both in our 30's). I had originally purchased the DVD of the TV series for him for Christmas after seeing parts of it while it was being played for our friends' children but we both felt that we were missing details of the story. I did not realize that the TV series was a continuation of the story started by the miniseries until I started reading the reviews on Amazon.
We split the 4 hour movie up over 2 or 3 days. The scenery and special effects were amazing and better than what I expected them to be. Having never read the books, I cannot comment on how true to the original story the movie was but I thoroughly entertained from start to finish.
We both felt that the movie might be too scary at times for very young viewers. However, there are valuable moral lessons taught within the movie so parents might want to watch it with their children and discuss it afterwards.
This DVD is a must have in the home library of families with children and adults who like to occasionally escape to a fantasy land with beautiful scenes and an entertaining story.
wonderful January 7, 2009
Michelle Tauber (onatrio Canada)
This product shipped and arrived in great condition and came in little to no time at all
 Too bad they faltered on their science January 5, 2009
W. Handy (Dallas, TX USA)
This is a good film for kids. For us adults, the relentlessly high-minded moralizing can get a bit thick - even when, as I did, we sympathize with the values. The acting also left much to be desired at times. At first I was thrilled at how good the science was - they used real dinosaur species and (again at first) called them by their right names. Then they got sloppy. An ancient temple was guarded by prehistoric crocodilians (not sure if they were accurately portrayed) that were misidentified as mosasaurs. Those were also water-going species, but much larger, with longer, more flexible, paddle-like tails - very different beasts. Then the rebellious brother got a saurian partner that was identified as a hadrosaur, but in fact was a ceratopsid. The hadrosaurs were the duck-billed dinosaurs who went sometimes on four legs, sometimes two, and who tended to have high, narrow crests on their heads and broad, blunt mouths. The best known ceratopsid was the triceratops - two long horns from the forehead, broad semi-circular crest behind the head, nose horn, beak-like mouth; decidedly quadripedal. The baby in the show was a real ceratopsian species, though I can't identify it off-hand. It certainly was no hadrosaur. The puzzling thing is that I'm sure there are thousands of 8 to 12 year olds out there who flocked to see this show and who picked up on the errors immediately. Heck, I would have at that age, and there is so much more information now. The producers should have been much more careful.
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