It is a performances centric movie

Best movie ever!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

While some paleontological information is offered from very famous experts in the field occasionally, with some footage of excavations, there really is not much educational content to be given. The biggest pro I can give this program is the designs of the dinosaurs. They're very colorful and creative. Very birdlike, which is something most dinosaur documentaries actually lack, going for duller browns and greens primarily. Everything else though is pretty bad. The animations of the dinosaurs are strange. It's jerky and looks like they're moving at a different framerate then they should be. They also act way too much like domesticated animals like dogs, and even some human-like behaviors are present as well, which is my biggest con. This honestly feels more like a high-budgeted cartoon than a documentary. This is honestly one of the worst dinosaur documentaries of recent years. If you're looking for something educational on the subject matter, check out other Discovery Channel documentaries such as "When Dinosaurs Roamed America".

Dinosaur Revolution is not in part with its predecessors of Walking with Dinosaurs fame and to say the truth does not even deserve to be called a documentary,more like a over styled cartoon. To say the truth I had to figure ti out went in any break I saw "This show is sponsored by Nissan". It could have been called "A Nissan commercial with Dinosaurs" and it wouldn't make any difference. So why did this revisit of the Mesozoic epoch failed so badly?For starters the CGI is a over the places and it looks uglier than those in Walking ,who were more than a decade older in the time of the release of this documentary. The reasons ,for this was that the project had more than one animation team and so the models could not be constant. An other was the program was at first going to be in total about twelve hours long and in was cut in just four, so many parts look broken. One more ,which I sensually tell if this was to make fun of the audiences or to ridiculed themselves, was that many of the stories showed were based on Looney Tunes cartoons, WHY IN GOD EARTH??!?1?Also an other factor was the studio interference ,which made some of the scientist working in the project disown their work in it. Man you it is bad when even your crew deserts you. To the dinosaurs again, they are depicted human like and the sad fact is that some of the designs are quit accurate, like the raptors, but if you have them act in this manner then your work lose credibility's.To conclude it was painful see the real life dragons be treated like that for profit and the advancements in the study of their lives going back to a preschool level. In the end ,no matter the project if your team isn't loyal to it and the leaders want to do it only for money ,is going to be a disappointment.

Although the animations are stiff at times i really liked the colorful and imaginative take on the different species, especially the t-rex which looked like death itself. But despite this fact i cannot like this series when every single scene is filled with straight out ridiculous behavior from animals which intelligence and behavior should have been similar to their modern counterparts. When i see a hunting dinosaur nod to its fellow hunter i cannot help but shiver out of dismay, the animators obviously had no idea about animal behavior and seemed to have given the dinosaurs almost human personalities.I suppose the purpose of this series was to display dinosaurs as more caring for each other, but the way it was executed reminds me of a Disney movie, the only thing missing is the animals actually talking to each other.

This miniseries was much disliked by its' viewers.That said, yes it had fairly jerky animation, and yes, it had many silly and/or gory moments.So if the above makes you feel this production is not worth your time, I've already gotten the critique out of the way. However, if you, like me, have more than just a passing interest in dinosaurs, you are in for a real treat.For all of its' quirkiness, this series is the first of its' kind to set up its' species as characters that the viewer can be invested in. If I were you, I'd be protesting that "Walking With Dinosaurs" already accomplished that, but you'd be wrong.Anyone who's ever dealt with snakes or alligators will tell you that even they have their "adorable" moments. This series takes that angle as well. We see these animals as clumsy and imperfect, with personality and quirks. Another twist is the illustration of some species fighting to survive AFTER the well-known asteroid impact.Dinosaur Revolution takes a sympathetic view of its' subjects, even T-Rex. It is obvious that this series was not meant to have narration or "talking head" interviews as each subject has more than enough personality to carry each story. The problem was the late revision to present this as a documentary, rather than a docudrama.The article here says that the producers are re-editing this series to reflect the original vision. If so, I'd be happy to see it, but I'd be surprised if anyone would change their opinions on it. The criticisms about the animation are justified. The silliness, however, I found endearing.I'd say this video would do well as a foil between viewings of other CGI dinosaur documentaries. It fleshes these species out in a way that has never been, and likely will never be, done by anyone else.If nothing else, consider this the, intentionally, campy dinosaur documentary.