"Dinotopia" (2002/II) TV mini-series

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Marco Brambilla

Writers (WGA):

James Gurney (books)
Simon Moore (teleplay)

Release Date:

12 May 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Carl and David, two boys flying a small aircraft over the ocean with their father, crash land near an uncharted island...

Plot Keywords:

Island | Dinosaur | Giant Creature | Mother Daughter Relationship | No Opening Credits

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 5 wins & 9 nominations

Cast

Tyron Leitso	...	Karl Scott
David Thewlis	...	Cyrus Crabb
Wentworth Miller	...	David Scott
Katie Carr	...	Marion Waldo
Jim Carter	...	Mayor Waldo
Alice Krige	...	Rosemary Waldo
Colin Salmon	...	Oonu
Hannah Yelland	...	Romana Denison
Lee Evans	...	Zippo (voice)
Terry Jones	...	Messenger Bird (voice)
Stuart Wilson	...	Frank Scott
Anna Maguire	...	Samantha Waldo
Andy Beckwith	...	Copra Carter
Keith Newby	...	Messenger
Marcus White	...	Oliver

Also Known As:

"Dinotopia" (Germany)

Runtime:

250 min | USA:360 min (including commercials)

Country:

UK | Germany | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:PG | Australia:PG | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Arizona, USA

Company:

Hallmark Entertainment

Trivia:

The Eleventh Code of Dinotopia (previously unknown since the tablet was broken) is "Find the Light". This is the phrase written on the front of a previous matriarch's (Marion's grandmother's?) letter.

Quotes:

Rosemary: Karl, you're not on vacation; you're expected to work with the other students during the day.
Karl Scott: Look, no disrespect, Rosemary, but I'm not a Dinotopian, and I don't want to become one, okay?
Rosemary: Do you intend to eat our food?
Karl Scott: Well, yeah, I guess.
Rosemary: Then you help us make it. Starting now. And please address me as Matriarch in the future.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#28.8)" (2002)

I have never been more jubilant about mini-series (or a four-hour movie, whatever you prefer)

I saw the first part of Dinotopia on television. In advance, I knew nothing about it, and I thought it would be just another cheap movie with horrible effects and only a few dinosaur scenes. I have never been that wrong! Dinotopia is a gripping story with splendid animation, I have immediately bought it on video! The movie contains marvellous landscapes, introduces some new ideas about dinosaurs (the ability to speak, intelligence, the way they survived extinction), is filled with magnificent music and contains fascinating ways of human-dinosaur interaction. A must-see for almost everyone, since there are no gruesome blood-scenes. My points of comment:1) a total of four seconds bad acting, and 2) a couple of gaps in the script (however, very small). In contrast to Jurassic Park, this movie has very little scenes with flesh-eating dinosaurs. Dinotopia can count itself to the best dinosaur-movies ever (which is, even now, a disappointing small group), and is a movie I want to watch over and over again! Only he who is blind or deaf, doesn't like dinosaurs or adventure and/or wants to have killing action every second of a movie has to ignore this masterpiece.