Excellent, smart action film.

As Good As It Gets

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

There are some animated movies that have breathtaking animation and gorgeous backgrounds but everything else about the film is just awful that I feel that the film was a missed opportunity. Sadly, "Walking with Dinosaurs" is yet another one of those movies. This is a movie that has some fantastic visuals provided by the studio Animal Logic, but the story and the characters are absolutely atrocious that I certainly cannot recommend it. I'll get into why in a little bit, but here's what happens in this movie.After a pointless live action introduction with Karl Urban playing a paleontologist, we are told a tale about when a group of Pachyrhinosaurus dinosaurs living in the Cretaceous era migrate back in forth every winter through the Alaskan wilderness. In the film we focus on three young dinosaurs named Patchi, his brother Scowler and their friend Juniper along with a bird named Alex and how they go on a crazy journey including get lost in the wilderness and even having to watch their parents get killed by a Gorgosaurus. You may be now wondering why I haven't put in the voice actors yet and the reason why is because I don't consider them voice overs as much as inner thoughts from the characters provided by Justin Long, John Leguizamo, Tiya Sircar and Skyler Stone. The dinosaurs don't talk as their lips don't move yet we still hear their voices as if they're psychic. There's a huge reason why this doesn't work but I'm going to talk about the visuals first.The animation in this film is gorgeous. It has some fantastic live action backgrounds and the animation for the dinosaurs looked great as well. The dinosaurs are all impressively rendered and I was amazed at how well detailed they were. It's really a pristine movie to look at. Too bad there wasn't a mute button for this movie because I would have used it had I had the chance. The voice over work is so annoying and juvenile that it really sinks the movie. From what I've read, the film was supposed to be have no voice over work or narration at all and was supposed to be told visually yet the stupid executives at 20th Century Fox forced the director to include voice over work in order for the children in the audience to connect with the dinosaurs. That was a terrible move. By doing this, we have to listen to some awful juvenile humor read by actors from Fox's other family movies that it's difficult to relate to the characters and I honestly struggled to get through my viewing. One joke about how Alex and Patchi argue of how the dinosaur fell into the river and how the film actually rewinds to the same scene was so unfunny that I actually almost gave up watching the film. I'm not even kidding. This film is so unfunny and juvenile I nearly gave up. Even the educational element of this film falls flat. To teach kids about certain dinosaurs, the film pauses itself whenever a new dinosaur appears on screen and has a second grader read off the text information about the dinosaur. That also really annoyed me.Annoying is the best word to sum up "Walking with Dinosaurs". Despite it's breathtaking visuals, the voice overs added to the characters as well as the failed attempts to educate the audience failed spectacularly resulting in one of the most annoying animated movies I have ever seen. If I were to grade those two elements separately, I would give the visuals a perfect ten but everything else a one. Though in average, I think a two seems about right. Hopefully, there will be another edit of this movie to remove that juvenile audio because I certainly would want to see a more adult version of this movie. Until then, I'm sticking with "The Land Before Time".

My kids, like most young kids, absolutely love Dinosaurs. So as a parent, I thought what better way to have an educational yet entertaining family experience than to watch this together. Boy was I wrong. This movie, though it is inspired by the BBC mini-series, is terrible. Granted the stunning visuals and photo-realism of the dinosaurs was really impressing, that gloss was quickly overshadowed by horrible writing and even worse voice acting. The writing was absolutely abysmal and felt forced. The jokes were terrible, the narrator (the crow/chicken bird thing) was annoying and ruined the film with it's inability to shut up through most of the scenes. The banter between the dinosaur characters also felt forced and drawn out. Why do they need to have 20 minute conversations about absolutely nothing in most of the scenes? Did Larry David write this? Back to the voice acting. Oh my God, the voice acting was cringeworthy. The voice actors made no attempt whatsoever to play "characters" but sounded like they were just reading lines off of a piece of paper while constantly checking the time (they probably were). The dialogue and the movement of the Dinos' mouths didn't even correctly sync. Is this one of those things where we're imagining that they're talking? And just so you never fully feel like you're watching either a fictional film, or a documentary about Dinosaurs, every time a new dino is introduced on screen, we get a pause and their name written in bold across the screen as it's read aloud by a group of little kids off camera. This film was so bad that my kids who are obsessed with Dinosaurs begged me to turn it off and put on Pixar's The Good Dinosaur instead. Yes, it's that bad.

Admittedly, the CGI is way better than the original series', however Walking with Dinosaurs: The Movie is still a spit in the face to the original show's fans by having awful voices for the dinosaurs, and unnecessary bathroom humor to entertain kids who deserve better quality than this. Please reboot this franchise.1/10

Walking With Dinosaurs Was Based Off A BBC Series And Fox Decided To Make A Film Based On It.With Live Action Backgrounds & CGI By The Award Winning Company, Animal Logic, Things Were Moving Along Pretty Good. Until...Fox Viewed A Rough Cut And Decided To Add Voices To The Characters So Children Can Watch It. Does Voices Ruin A Meant To Be Silent Film.yes.instead, Fox Marketed This Film IN 3D (That's Fine) But As A Kids Film (Ugh.)The Story Is About Patchi (Justin Long) Is Going To Learn How To Be A Leader In His Tribe And To Grow Up. As He Wrestles With His Older And Ruder Brother Scowler (Skyler Stone) As He Meets A Girl Dinosaur Name Juniper (Tiya Sircar) And With His Friend Alex (John Leguizamo) He Will Become The Leader He Was Made To Be.Judging By That,The Story Is Predictable And Not That Interesting.However,The Film's Animation Is Amazing And Looks Realistic Not To Mention The Breath Taking Backgrounds. But The Script Is A Predictable Mess And Just Stupid.The Characters Are Just Bland, 1 Dimensional & Just Annoying.The Humor Is Juvenile Just To Make The Kids Laugh And Humor That Doesn't Fit The Movie And Makes You Confused And Stuff.With That Said...Walking With Dinosaurs Is Just A Sad Attempt So Kids Can Watch And Make Money.And The Filmmakers Wanted The Film To Be Silent But Fox Wanted Voices So Children Can Connect To The Characters (No!)I Would Recommend To People Who Like Dinosaurs And/or Juvenile HumorAs This Film Is Nothing But A Cash Grabber Thanks To FoxD. Hidden Howard