Dinosaur

Dinosaur

What do you get when you cross the Crocodile Hunter with the Jurassic Park trilogy? You get Chased by Dinosaurs, an awesomely entertaining BBC follow-up to the phenomenally successful Walking with Dinosaurs programs. Hosted by zoologist-adventurer Nigel Marven, this compilation of playfully exciting 30-minute programs is a time traveler's dream come true, presenting a feast of impressive prehistoric scenery as if it were readily accessible to any present-day camera crew. It's digital fakery at its finest, and Marven's infectious enthusiasm combines up-to-date research with wide-eyed intensity as he introduces us to a wide-ranging menagerie of long-extinct species, thriving in their native habitats and raging from 75 to 450 million years B.C. "Land of Giants" leaps back to the early Cretaceous period (100 million B.C.) to what is now Argentina, where Marven and his intrepid crew find Argentinosaurus, at over 100 feet long the largest dinosaur ever. Other marvels abound, including an Ultralight flight among a flock of Pteranodons, with wingspans up to 40 feet! "The Giant Claw" is a search for Therizinosaurus, an amazing herbivore (Mongolia, 75 million B.C.) with enormous 28-inch claws on 10-foot arms. The three-part "Sea Monsters" spans seven epochs to survey some of the most bizarre and terrifying creatures that ever swam the oceans, including sea scorpions, a multi-tentacled Giant Orthocone, and Megalodon, the ancient relative to Great White Sharks. And that's just a sampling: Many other amazing creatures are included among Marven's close encounters. With each successive effort, the digital wizards at Framestore CFC (Europe's largest computer-animation company) rise to new heights of photorealism, interactive lighting effects, and biological authenticity. And while Marven's a fair educator and a robust adventurer, more science-minded viewers will appreciate the 50-minute bonus program "The Science of Giants," centering on the behavior of massive dinosaurs and the efforts of renowneds paleontologist Philip Currie to prove that "megacarnivores"--once thought to roam alone--actually hunted in packs. This is really amazing stuff, and the helpful "Fact Files" provide detailed profiles of every dinosaur and sea creature featured in these memorable programs. --Jeff Shannon

Director(s): Eric Leighton
Production: Buena Vista
  4 wins & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
PG
Year:
2000
82
$135,606,304
Website
2,699 Views

Plio:
I heard you say something about "Nesting Grounds".

Eema:
It is the most beautiful place there is, child. It's where the herd goes to have their babies.

Suri:
Will we find anybody that looks... like us there?

Eema:
Oh, the last few days, I've seen 'em all shapes and sizes. Who knows what we'll find? The hard job now is just getting there.

Baylene:
And we're being driven unmercifully.

Aladar:
By who?

Eema:
Kron, the herd's head honcho.

Baylene:
We can hardly keep up. An older woman like myself, it's... well, it's positively indecent.

Aladar:
Tell him! What's the worst he can do?

[Neera, Kron, and Bruton approach; Url nervously walks out of the way; Bruton growls at him; Kron rudely pushes past Aladar]

Aladar:
Hey! What's his problem?

Eema:
That's him, honey, Kron.

Aladar:
Huh. Excuse me! Kron! Got a second?

Bruton:
Get lost, kid!

Kron:
[chuckles] Relax, Bruton. [comes up to Aladar] Who are you?

Aladar:
Uh... Aladar.

Kron:
Why aren't you up here with the... [notices the lemurs on Aladar's back] ...uh, young brothers? [snorts at them]

Aladar:
Well, I was back here talking to these guys. I guess they're having a hard time keeping up. So, you know, maybe you could slow down a bit?

[Neera chuckles and smiles]

Kron:
Hmm, let the weak set the pace. Now, there's an idea. Better let me do the thinking from now on, Aladar.

Aladar:
Hey! They need help back here!

Kron:
Watch yourself, boy. [leaves with a dismissive snort]

Neera:
Don't worry. That's how my brother treats newcomers... no matter how charming they are. [follows Korn away]

Zini:
[to Aladar] You sure know how to catch a girl's eye there, stud!

Eema:
I wouldn't be catching nobody's eye if I was you. Especially Neera's. You just keep your head down, and you mind what Kron tells you.

Yar:
Since when do we take orders from the likes of him?

Eema:
[chuckles] Kron has swatted flies bigger than you, pops.

Yar:
I could hold that monster's brain in the palm of my--!

Alader:
No, Yar, she's right. Better to keep our heads down with this bunch than get 'em bitten off by those things. [looks towards Velociraptors nearby]

Eema:
Well, you just consider yourself lucky that's all that's following us.

Kron:
[to the herd] We have to keep trying. For our survival, our future is over these rocks. NOW, LET'S GO HOME!

[the herd starts approaching him by going over the rocks, as they follow him]

Kron:
[to the two iguanodon children] You're going to make it, won't you, boys? [starts shoving them with his head]

Neera:
[to Kron] No.

Kron:
[to Neera] Watch them! They're tough! [to the herd] If they can do it, SO CAN YOU!

[the herd stops for a brief moment, then think Kron has gone crazy at Neera, and then continue walking up toward the rocks, as Neera receives a smile from Kron, until...]

Aladar:
[off-screen] KRON!

[Kron looks back in shocked in confusion. Neera gasps and Aladar shows his whole self up, as he approaches the herd]

Aladar:
[to Kron] Get the herd out of here! A Carnotaur's coming!

Kron:
[to the herd] Keep moving!

Aladar:
[to Kron] Stop! I've been to the valley! There's a safer way!

Kron:
[angrily, to the two iguanodon children] Go on! Show them!

Neera:
[to Kron] Kron, listen to him!

(Kron hits the two iguanodon children with his head, making them cry]

Aladar:
[to Kron] Look, we've got to go now!

Kron:
Go where?! Straight to the Carnotaurs?!

Aladar:
If we hurry, we can get around them! You can't get over those rocks! There's a sheer trap on the other side! [Kron hits the two iguanodon children with his head, making them cry again] YOU'RE GONNA KILL THE HERD! I know a way to the valley, and everybody can make it! [to the herd] Now, follow me!

[Kron approaches the herd]

Neera:
[to Kron, as he leaps from rock to rock] Kron!

Kron:
[to the Aladar] THEY'RE STAYING WITH ME!

Aladar:
[to the herd] All right, let's go!

[Kron viciously attacks Aladar, who viciously fights back at him, as they both bellow and fight at each other, and knock each other down to the ground and get up again; the herd watches both Kron and Aladar fight, as Neera rushes through the herd, and watches them both for a brief moment, and then rushes quickly to save Aladar; Aladar knocks Kron to the ground, to which Kron throws sand in Aladar's eyes, scratches Aladar across his chest with his spiked thumb, leaving behind a huge wounded scar on Aladar's chest, and knocks Aladar to the ground, forcing a herd of Microceratops to get out of the way; Kron gets up, stands up on his hind legs, and is going to nearly kill Aladar with his spiked thumb using his roar, but Neera knocks Kron to the ground, and then saved Aladar's life; Neera is shocked and angry at everything Kron has done, and then turns herself over to Aladar, who is being wounded from the fight with Kron, as she helps him get up, and they both continue walking towards the cave entrance to the valley that Aladar has made, along with the herd, and the two iguanodon children; Kron watches Aladar, Neera, the herd, and the two iguanodon children walk by, and then gets very furious at Neera]

Kron:
NEERA!!!

[Kron gets horrified, as Aladar, Neera, the herd, and the two iguanodon children are abandoning him; Kron realizes that he has been left behind by them, and then goes back to the rocks, and starts climbing over the rocks all by himself; suddenly, Aladar, Neera, the herd, and the two iguanodon children hear the carnotaur roaring in the distance, and the carnotaur then shows his whole self up, and then approaches Aladar, Neera, the herd, and the two iguanodon children, and then confronts them; Kron, who is climbing over the rocks, notices the carnotaur, and then tries to warn the herd about the carnotaur that Aladar has led him to them]

Kron:
[to the herd about what Aladar has done] He's led that monster straight toward us! This way! [continues climbing over the rocks]

Aladar:
[to Kron] No! Don't move! If we scatter, he'll pick us off! [to the herd] Stand together!

[Kron looks at Aladar, Neera, the herd, and the two iguanodon children with an enraged look on his face, and then stubbornly continues climbing over the rocks, and sets off to prove Aladar wrong, as the carnotaur roars at Aladar, who roars back at him; Neera joins Aladar, along with the herd, and the two iguanodon children, making the carnotaur pass through the herd in the process, and then make the carnotaur turn his attention toward Kron, who has made it to a cliff, and then realizes that Aladar was right about the sheer drop; Aladar and Neera both start chasing after the carnotaur]

Neera:
[to Kron, as she rushes towards him] Kron!

[Kron notices the carnotaur, and realizes that he is cornered by him]

Kron:
[his last words] No, no!

[Kron attacks the carnotaur, who wounds him with his sharp teeth by biting him several times, and then throws him into a rock; Aladar, and Neera both arrive just in time, and then start fighting with the carnotaur; Kron watches both Aladar and Neera fighting the carnotaur, as he is realizing that he was wrong about Aladar; Aladar, and Neera both corner the carnotaur at the cliff, and Aladar knocks the carnotaur into the sheer trap, making him fall to his death below; Aladar, and Neera both rush toward Kron, who has died due to the fight between him and the carnotaur]

Neera:
[off-screen] Kron.

[Neera nudges Kron's head to make him get up, but it's no use, even to no avail; Kron was already dead. Aladar, and Neera both then hug each other, and finally embrace each other; some time later, Aladar, Neera, the herd, and the iguanodon children all went through the cave towards the cave entrance to the valley that Aladar has made, and they all finally made it into the valley]

Aladar:
[to Neera] Welcome home.

[A dinosaur egg falls on the island. A colony of lemurs scatter in a frenzy. 4 lemurs approach:
Plio, Yar, Zini, and Suri.]

Young Zini:
Yar, what is it?

Yar:
I don't know. PLIO, GET BACK HERE! We don't know what it is!

Young Zini:
Plio, be careful.

[Plio sneak over sensing, she got present when the egg cracks, then opens the shell and is happy to see a baby iguanodon.]

Plio:
Dad, get over here.

Yar:
Zini, it's not safe!

Young Zini:
Oh, I always have to go when stuff's happening.

[Yar scoffs at Zini and gets closer to Plio]

Yar:
Well, what is it?

Plio:
It was an egg. [to baby Aladar] Look. [Yar gasps in shock] What?

Yar:
It's a cold-blooded monster from across the sea: vicious, flesh-eating! [baby Aladar burps] Eurgh...

Plio:
Looks like a baby to me.

Yar:
Babies grow up! You keep that thing, one day, we'll turn our backs, it'll be picking us out of it's teeth! Things like THAT eat things lie US as snacks!

Plio:
So, what do we do?

Yar:
Get rid of it!

[Yar is trying to dissuade Plio from raising the baby Aladar]

Plio:
[vexed] What has gotten into you?

Yar:
[exasperated] Plio... That thing is DANGEROUS!

Plio:
[to baby Aladar; regretfully sighs] I'm sorry, little one. [to Yar, handling baby Aladar over to him] Okay, get rid of it.

[Yar gasps]

Plio:
[sarcastically] Hmph!

[Plio sits on a patch of moss to watch

Yar:
All right, I will.

[Yar lifts baby Aladar over the edge of the branch, preparing to drop the dinosaur baby to his death. All the other lemurs are watching him. Yar heistates.]

Plio:
[sarcastically] You'd better hurry up, Dad. It looks hungry.

Yar:
Hmph!

[Yar looks at baby Aladar. Baby Aladar coes and looks at Yar with droopy eyelids. Yar closes his eyes and sighs, defeated. Yar hears a strange sound and opens his eyes to see that baby Aladar is peeing on him]

Yar:
[disgusted, defeated; handling Aladar back to Plio] Rmmm... Here.

Plio:
[smiling] It's okay. We'll teach him to hate meat.

Yar:
Hmph. Watch his head! I-I mean, watch it! he could bite. [walks away]

Young Zini:
This "monster's" got no teeth! What's he gonna do? Gum us to death?

Plio:
Zini, come on: look at that sweet little face. Does that look like a monster to you?

Yar:
[both are giving mating advice, Yar to the males, Plio to the females] Okay, boys, gather around: listen and learn from the Master.

Plio:
Now girls, don't jump into the trees after the first boy with a cute back-flip: it's more fun if you keep them guessing.

Yar:
And if a cute back-flip doesn't work, guess.

Plio:
You're never going to forget this day, so make it one to remember.

Yar:
But if you mess up, don't worry: they'll never remember.

Aladar:
Come on, guys! We don't wanna let 'em down!

Yar:
Go on, now. Chest up! Chin up!

Male Lemur:
Whoo!

Yar:
Make 'em look good, son.

Aladar:
Come on, Yar. My charm, and your brains? No problem.

[Yar laughs. Aladar has male courting lemurs on his back and escorts them to the tree]

Aladar:
Hey girls, look what just pulled into town.

Male Lemur:
Hey, ladies!

Aladar:
Your buffet table of love!

[The female lemurs laugh]

Male Lemurs:
Right here! Right here! Hey, beautiful!

Zini:
Hey, free samples! Get me while I'm hot! Whoa! [Zini grabs Aladar's tail and chuckles]

Suri:
Zini. [laughs]

Zini:
[the males in the tree courting] Whoo! Wah-hoo!

[Plio, Yar, Zini, Suri trill, and Aladar bellows. Zini falls on the bush. Suri laughing at him. The male Lemurs jump out of the tree, in the vines swinging around, Zini trying sticks the branches, Aladar take a little branch to help Zini and throws him over the vine]

Aladar:
You're missin' all the action, pal. Come on!

Zini:
Hey, haven't you heard? I am the action! WHOO! Whoo-ah!

[The female lemurs climb the vines. Every lemur ends up finding a mate except Zini].

Aladar:
Well, you'll always have next year.

Zini:
Hey, I'm lucky to be rid of them. With the ladies, before you know it, they all wanna move to a bigger tree.

Yar:
Ah well! Poor Zini! The clan still has one bachelor.

Plio:
No. We have two. [to Aladar] Well, it's never been his best event.

Aladar:
He's got a tougher hide than mine.

Plio:
O, Aladar! If only there were someone on the island for you. You know; who looks like you, but prettier.

Aladar:
Come on, Plio. What more could I want?

[After Bruton nearly escaped an attack by two Carnotaurs]

Bruton:
Kron! Carnotaurs!

Kron:
[confused and disturbed] What? They never come this far north!

Bruton:
The fireball must have driven them out.

Kron:
[overhears the Carnotaurs roaring] You've led them right to us! MAYBE YOU CAN FEED THEM WITH YOUR HIDE! Move the herd out, double time!

[Bruton roars for the herd to leave. Aladar and Neera notice this.]

Aladar:
What's happening?

Neera:
My brother's moving the herd. Kron! What's going on?

Kron:
Carnotaurs. If we don't keep moving, they'll catch up to us.

Aladar:
But the others in the back, they'll never make it.

Kron:
They'll slow down the predators.

Aladar:
You can't sacrifice them like this! [calls out to the herd] HOLD IT! THAT COULD BE YOU BACK THERE, OR YOU!

Kron:
[smacks Aladar down to the ground] If you ever interfere again, I'll kill you. [begins to walk away, but notices Neera approaching Aladar] STAY AWAY FROM HIM!

[Kron pushes Neera away from Aladar, who growls in anger]

Neera:
Aladar, no! You just-- Just go. I'll be okay.

[Aladar runs back to warn Baylene, Eema, and the lemurs.]

Aladar:
Let's go! Let's go! Carnotaurs!

Yar:
Carno-what?

Eema:
Carnotaur! A mouth full of teeth with a bad attitude! Let's go!

Aladar:
Come on, you guys, get on, get on! We're gonna get left behind! [starts running for the herd] Let's go! Hurry up! We're losing them!

Plio:
Aladar, slow down!

[Aladar stops and looks behind to see Baylene and Eema struggling to follow. Then he turns to see Neera, Kron and the rest of the herd leaving without them. Aladar chooses to stay with Baylene and Eema to ensure their survival.]


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