Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

vesy90 I have seen other documentaries on dinosaurs, but none of them can hold a candle to this one. And I always cry when I watch the last episode that features their demise. Such amazing creatures. I appreciate the fact that their ending isn't presented too graphically. Thank you, BBC, for paying such respect to those majestic giants by creating this fantastic work.

grizzledgeezer I'd like to give this outstanding series a 10, but two things hold me back.One is that the animals' behavior -- including how they hunt, and their social organization -- are portrayed as facts. This is no disclaimer of "we think this is the way it might have been". This is bad science.The other is a horrendous error that I see over and over again in nature programs (regardless of their source). Pit vipers have two organs especially sensitive to infrared that help them locate warm-blooded prey. Yet every nature program portrays them as actual eyes that render what's in front of the snake as a false-color infrared image! Apparently, the scientific advisers didn't catch this, or didn't care.There are other minor points, such as the failure to explain why dinosaurs -- though reptiles -- could be warm-blooded, or how scientists know that a skeleton is of a mammal, not a reptile.With these two qualifications, the series is strongly recommended.

brower8 This is about the most convincing animation possible. One thinks that one has somehow been transported to a world that Man could never have evolved into. One is among nasty beasts, amimals even more ferocious than those that we humans warm up to -- dogs, dolphins, whales, and cats. One may never know exactly what dinosaurs were like, but this is the most convincing description yet of them and their world. Sure, the behavior of other animals, typically birds, is imputed to the most menacing of the carnivores. Then again, who would want to meet an oversized, flightless eagle? This treatment of dinosaurs is very different from the anthropomorphism that one associates with Disney fare. This is Nature red in tooth and claw, which their world was to the extreme. (Then again, it is unlikely that some series that reconstructs our world by some intelligence creatures 80 million years after our human demise will see much cute or cuddly in dogs, cats, dolphins, or whales -- let alone us.This documentary is gory -- as gory as a typical war movie or western at times. Do not show this to small children; show them instead the animated "Land Before Time" series of Disney-style anthropomorphism. Better yet, show them "Dumbo", the most successful anthropomorphism of an animal in the Disney pattern (elephants approach human intelligence, have a human life span and social structure, and have human-like emotions -- and they are almost dinosaurian in size). When the great rock fell into the Yucatan Peninsula, the remarkable era of the dinosaurs came to an end -- and ours became possible. Tragic as that collision was for the dinosaurs, that catastrophe made our world possible.

Calvin-23 This movie is well done. It really attempts to show what the dinosaurs had to contend with in their daily lives. The animation is very well done and the film makers have done a great job of giving scientific fact in such a way that it is entertaining. This is a great movie.