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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 11152
Released: July 30, 2002 |
| Our Price: $7.49 |
| Used Price: $4.38 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Two brothers find themselves castaways on Dinotopia a secret world where dinosaurs and humans coexist in harmony until their sources of power the sunstones begin to fail. The boys are the keys to Dinotopia's survival and must journey to a dangerous forbidden territory in a last attempt to save their new home.System Requirements:Starring: David Thewlis Katie Carr Jim Carter Alice Krige Tyron Leitso Wentworth Miller Colin Salmon and Stuart Wilson. Directed By: Marco Brambilla. Running Time: 240 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Standard" format. Copyright 2002 Artisan Entertainment.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: UPC: 707729128397 Manufacturer No: A012839
Description of Dinotopia (TV Miniseries):
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
Dinotopia (TV Miniseries) Reviews:
Dinotopia DVD 
2008-08-16 - I looked every where for this movie, found it on Amazon. Great price and quick delivery. Thanks Amazon
Still haven't found the Dinotopia I'm looking for 
2008-06-17 - "Dinotopia", based on the best selling series of books, sounded compelling on paper. People crash land in a country where humans and dinosaurs live together in peace&harmony. It's an interesting series, with some potentially good ideas, with a pre-Prison Break Wentworth Miller and David Thewlis as a surprisingly sympathetic villain.
In "Dinotopia", Miller and Tyron Leitso star as a pair of half-brothers who crash land in Dinotopia. (To make this movie family-friendly, they describe their late father as "socially active") They are greeted by the presiding matriarch, Alice Krige. Since they are in a worker's paradise, they can't choose their own jobs. She also has them listening to dinosaurs pound their feet, getting them into polytheistic/pantheistic meditation. Furthermore, the half-brothers must abide by Dinotopia's laws. They must be vegetarian-and the kicker- they can't fight in self-defense if carnivorous dinosaurs attack. In the meantime, the half-brothers end up smitten with the mayor of Waterfall City's daughter. (In a not-so-family friendly twist, she skinny dips with one of them,but nothing results from the love triangle) They also encounter the free-thinking villain, David Thewlis. He wants the people of Dinotopia to have freedom of thought and freedom of motion,as well as the freedom to defend themselves- but he's stigmatized.
The sunstones that are defending Dinotopia from carnivorous dinosaurs are failing. The half-brothers embark on a quest to restore them. As for the love triangle, it's left unresolved.
"Dinotopia" has some good special effects and great acting. Krige is at once menacing and maternal as Dinotopia's leader. She's the organic, vegetarian Borg Queen. The script is turgid. There are aspects problematic for youngsters. "Dinotopia" isn't utopia. It's loveably bad. It has dinosaurs! So why complain?
way too long
2008-06-05 - Two half-brothers and their father in a plane, crash in the sea. The brothers survive and enter the world of Dinotopia, a world in which dinosaurs live with humans... David will try to become one of the Dinotopians, while Carl wants to go back to his world.
This is quite fun - at times - though I found the CGI was not that great; the acting isn't the best either; and the dinosaurs are... well... entertaining at best.
My problem with this tv movie is that it is way too long. Those five hours could easily have been crammed into a regular feature of two hours; there was just too many scenes that weren't needed.
Enjoyable for the family. Most kids would love this!
Dinotopia (TV Miniseries
2008-05-27 - GREAT PRICE. EVERYTHING IS AS SAID. AAZON IS THE BEST INTERNET SHOPPING. PRODUCT WAS WRAPPED AND SHIPPED IN A PROFESSIONAL AND TIMELY MANNER.
What the!?!?!?! 
2008-05-22 - I can't understand why it seems everyone has to take "polar opposite" sides on this movie. It is simply a composite of all the episodes in the mini-series, edited into a single movie and is easily worth the price. My children love it and I wasn't expecting a "blockbuster". Regardless of what happened to the series it scores as a big hit in my household.
