Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia

2007

Documentary

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 53% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 53% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 485 485

meteor patagonia, argentina time lapse photography short film short

Plot summary

If it weren't for a series of cataclysmic events, a comet impact being first on the list, our planet could well still be the domain of dinosaurs. Following Pr Rodolfo Coria, a world-renowned Argentinian paleontologist, we visit sites of major discoveries he has contributed to in Patagonia and travel back in time to see these amazing beasts come to life in 3D...

Director

Marc Fafard Photo
Marc Fafard

Top cast

Donald Sutherland Photo
Donald Sutherland as Narrator
Rodolfo Coria Photo
Rodolfo Coria as Paleontologist
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
373.24 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles cz   us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 40 min
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765.41 MB
1920*1080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles cz   us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 40 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Mozjoukine

Drab Imax attraction.

DYNOSAURS - GIANTS OF PATAGONIA is a big brother of those underfunded educational movies teachers used to feed through sixteen millimeter projectors. The factual content is intriguing - monster footprints surviving to our own time, the world as one land mass with one ocean - but the presentation lacks energy.The CG animation is cut-price unconvincing in the wake of the JURASIC PARK movies. The attempt to involve us in the one critter, followed from an egg, fails because the creature has no personality, as well as not being plausible. The helicopter footage is imposing in 3D but a lot of the scenics appear to have no depth and the effects shots, showing activity reflected on the lenses of glasses self consciously placed or on a lap top screen, don't add anything of value to the texture. There's lots of snapping at the camera.The admirable Donald Sutherland's commentary could have been delivered by the science master to much the same effect.Time was when IMAX attractions were an event outing. The producers were able to suggest that making them was an exciting activity and La Geode had the great pre-show running on the inside of it's Buckmaster Fuller dome. I miss that.
Reviewed by lisa_zap 8 / 10

Great educational movie

I really enjoyed this movie and have seen it twice (I'd see it a third time, but I believe this is the last week it will be playing. It was a great film for the entire family: I didn't have to worry about inappropriate violence (the food chain is part of nature, so that's okay, and even in this respect the movie was quite tame), and the whole family learned some really interesting things. I was very impressed by the computer graphics, especially the quetzalcoatl. One thing I would have liked to see was a map of what the world looked like at the time, including the location of what is now Patagonia (and my two year old wanted to see T. rex, but he doesn't quite have a grasp on geography). I would love to see more films like this!
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