Walking with Dinosaurs 3D

Walking with Dinosaurs 3D is a 2013 adventure film directed by Barry Cook and Neil Nightingale. The film stars John Leguizamo, Justin Long, Tiya Sircar, and Skyler Stone. Part of BBC Earth's Walking with Dinosaurs brand, the film was an international co-production with Reliance Entertainment, BBC Earth Films, IM Global and Evergreen Studios, with photorealistic dinosaurs animated by the Sydney-based visual effects studio Animal Logic, and released on December 20th, 2013 in the United States by 20th Century Fox.

Plot
A Pachyrhinosaurus named Patchi (Justin Long) must survive while growing up with his best friend, an Alexornis named Alex (John Leguizamo) his older brother Scowler, (Skyler Stone) and his love interest Juniper (Tiya Sircar).

Bad Qualities
NOTE: This will only focus on the edited version that resulted from executive meddling by 20th Century Fox.


 * 1) Originally, the film was meant to have no dialogue and portray the dinosaurs as real dinosaurs, which would have been a very good idea, but Fox decided to add voice-overs to be a Land Before Time and Dinosaur (2000)-esque film. The voice-overs are very annoying as they never shut up.
 * 2) Speaking of the voice overs, the dinosaurs' mouths don't move when time they talk. They could have just delayed the film so that they can animate the mouths.
 * 3) *To be fair though, the voice-overs were meant to be compromise to keep the dinosaurs realistic without making them talk.
 * 4) The need for the dinosaurs to talk also resulted in very poor editing. Some shots are either reused, edited into another background or even reversed. This is especially noticeable in that montage after Patchi first meets Juniper, which obviously wasn't supposed to be in the movie.
 * 5) Annoying fecal matter jokes.
 * 6) Speaking of which, the humor and dialogue also kills any peril and emotion we'd feel for the characters due to the voice-overs not taking any of the situations seriously.
 * 7) * The majority of the dialogue isn't even related to the story and is just self-aware jokes about dinosaurs, such as being aware of the incoming extinction of the dinosaurs and an ironic joke about mammals going extinct, making it feel more like a bad parody of the original BBC miniseries.
 * 8) * Patchi learning about "meat eaters" from Alex distracts from the former being taken from his nest by a Troodon.
 * 9) * Patchi and Scowler just won't shut up while they were in the middle of a forest fire.
 * 10) * Alex and Patchi keep talking over a scene of a Quetzacoatlus being caught and killed by Gorgon.
 * 11) * During the Gorgosaurus attack scene, the writers decided it was a good idea to have Patchi and Juniper make a joke about "stepping in some fear".
 * 12) * During the Chirostenotes attack scene, Patchi gives them the "skinny-necked pecky things" nickname, which gets really annoying after a while.
 * 13) * Patchi's infamous "take that, random tree" line, which he says during scene where he is meant to be heroic, but that line ruins it.
 * 14) * During the scene where Gorgon attacks Scowler, Alex lands nearby to feed. But the film treats that as Alex attempting to save the day only to get distracted, which is more irritating than funny.
 * 15) While Justin Long and John Leguizamo did decent jobs voicing their characters, the other two voice-actors, Tiya Sircar and Skyler Stone, either don't put any effort in at all or are unbearable for the most part.
 * 16) Pointless scenes of children reading title card introductions of the dinosaur species.
 * 17) Patchi and Juniper's love relationship is forced.
 * 18) Scowler, Patchi's brother, is a completely unlikeable jerk. The point of no-return for his character was when he literally disowned Patchi, his own brother.
 * 19) All of the editing makes it very unfaithful to the original BBC miniseries.
 * 20) The ending where Patchi and Juniper have kids is similar to the ending of Dinosaur (2000).
 * 21) The Edmontonia is referred as an ankylosaur to keep it simple for kids. Even more, the Parksosaurus barley get any acknowledgement whatsoever.
 * 22) Some scenes might be too frightening for a kids movie, like a defeated Patchi willingly accepting to be eaten alive by scavengers after losing a fight to Scowler and getting abandoned by the herd. He thankfully gets back up after some pep talk from Alex though.
 * 23) While beautiful to look at, the Alaskan backgrounds are out-of-place as there is grass present.
 * 24) Bulldust is never mentioned again until the climax, making his death seem pointless.
 * 25) * Major is also never seen again after Scowler defeats him, with the possible exception of the climax.
 * 26) Despite the film causing a resurgence in the Walking with Dinosaurs franchise, some can blame it for killing it off a year later, though this could be as a result of Jurassic World's popularity.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Beautiful and breath-taking animation on the dinosaurs, almost looking life-like. Some can even say this looks more realistic than Industrial Light & Magic's work on Jurassic World, which came out two years later.
 * 2) Thankfully, the original and much better version of the film was released on the Blu-ray. It features no voice-overs and inappropriate humor, though the terrible editing is still present.
 * 3) * The version subtitled 'Prehistoric Planet 3D', a 45-minute nature-documentary edit narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, is much closer to the miniseries.
 * 4) Some feel-good moments.
 * 5) Some likeable characters; Patchi, though annoying, is a decent protagonist.
 * 6) The voice-acting is sometimes kinda good. John Leguizamo's performance is probably the highlight of the voice-acting overall. That’s not saying much, though.
 * 7) Some of Alex's lines can be worth a chuckle. But the key word is some.
 * 8) Little kids might enjoy it.
 * 9) Beautiful nature-documentary-esque score by Paul Leonard-Morgan.
 * 10) Decent plot.
 * 11) The silent characters are likeable:
 * 12) * Bulldust, Patchi's father, is arguably the best character in the film.
 * 13) * Gorgon is a threatening villain.
 * 14) * Major and Patchi's mom are also likeable.

Reception
Walking with Dinosaurs 3D received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and audiences upon release, with many praising the special effects but criticizing the dialogue and voice-acting. The website Rotten Tomatoes scored the film with 23% based on a survey of 77 reviews assessed as positive or negative, with an average score of 4.41/10, saying, "Walking with Dinosaurs boasts painstaking visual brilliance, but it's unfortunately clouded by a clumsy script that's dominated by juvenile humor." Metacritic gave an aggregate score of 37 out of 100, which it said indicated "generally unfavorable" reviews. It surveyed 21 critics and assessed 10 reviews as negative, six as mixed, and five as positive.

Mark Adams of Screen International said Walking with Dinosaurs worked as "a kids' film for young dino fans". Adams commended the 3D special effects as "immersive and impressive" but thought audiences may be frustrated at "its rather simplistic story". He said, "The film's attempt to make its story broad and accessible at times sits uneasily alongside the spectacular computer animation." Michael Rechtshaffen, reviewing for The Hollywood Reporter, also approved of the effects, calling them "first rate". The critic however complained that the added dialogue was "needless" and that it was "safe to assume that the overlay was added after the fact" by studio executives. Rechtshaffen said, "Although the plotting... follows a safely predictable course... It's that forced, unnecessary and largely unfunny dialogue—save for Leguizamo's spirited way with words—that comes up distractingly flat."

The Hollywood Reporter stated the film's global box office performance was disappointing in context of the production budget and marketing costs, grossing US$36.1 million in the United States and Canada and US$90.5 million in other territories for a worldwide total of US$126.5 million on an $80 million budget.

Trivia

 * Justin Long previously collaborated with executive producer Tim Hill and 20th Century Fox on the live-action Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise. John Leguizamo also voiced Sid the Sloth in Blue Sky Studios' popular animated franchise, Ice Age, with the second film's screenplay and story written by dialogue-contributor Gerry Swallow. Many could assume this as the reason both were casted in the film.
 * Animation director Marco Marenghi previously worked on the original Walking with Dinosaurs miniseries.
 * Character designer David Krentz was also involved in the original Walking With Dinosaurs miniseries, Dinosaur Revolution, and Dinosaur (2000).

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