Dinotopia (TV Miniseries)

Lions Gate - Lions Gate

Release date: 2002-07-30
DVD
Director:Marco Brambilla
Actors: Tyron Leitso, David Thewlis, Wentworth Miller, Katie Carr, Jim Carter

Action / Adventure, Adventure, Bright, Children's Fantasy, Children's/Family, Color, English, Family, Fanciful, Fantasy, Fantasy Adventure, Feature, Feature Film Family, Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Lost Worlds, Mischievous Children, Movie, Rousing, Scary Moments, Sci-Fi


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I saw a rating on this tv mini-series, and disagree with it - while Dinotopia is a Utopian society, there are some good moral lessons to be learned here. I found the plot enjoyable as well as interesting. The two brothers were so different, yet each found his place in the new society they found themselves in, while helping each to overcome some of their fears - as well as helping the society overcome some of their problems as well. I'm an older woman, but I still enjoy kids movies (good thing since my grandchildren enjoy watching them).

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I looked every where for this movie, found it on Amazon. Great price and quick delivery. Thanks Amazon

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"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?

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