Walking with Dinosaurs the movie is loosely based upon the BBC TV series of the same name. It is largely an educational kids movie, as such it's style wouldn't be out on place on a BBC schools programming schedule. Throughout the film, when a new dinosaur is introduced the action stops while we are told its name, what it means and what it eats. While this maybe useful information for education, it quickly gets annoying for the adult audience.
Although it has a U certificate I'm not sure that it's really suitable for very young children as it deals with Dinosaurs fighting and dying at various points.
The storyline, such as it is, is fairly predictable and largely unremarkable. The film is narrated by a bird called Alex, and follows a Pachyrhinosaurus called Patchi. However at several points in the film the narration changes to Patchi himself, this also gets annoyong as the chemistry between these two characters is supposed to be amusing, but is littered with unfunny banter.
On the plus side the animation and CGI is superb.
If this were a tv film produced for education then I'm sure it would be well received, but for me it just doesn't belong in a cinema. 5/10
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