I saw this series on TV last night and wow was i stunned. The acting is just perfectly! I love how they cast the actors, as if they found some real midievel people and made them act in this movie. Also the special effects are mind blowing. At times i can't believe its all CGI, it just looks so super real! Compared to Jurrasic Park this Movie still looks great, maybe even better because those are just dolls. Hello we live in the 21st century. I myself would love to be in Dinotopia. I recommend this movie to anybody who wants some company in those rainy days. I hope they will release a DVD directors cut with more scenes, i just cant get enough of Dinotopia and all its wonderful actors and dino's. If you love Dino's, then you gotta check this out.

My Take: An underrated and pricey blockbuster of a TV miniseries. I really liked this 3-part mini-series. It was really an awe-inspiring and fantastic mini-series. Now I'm not saying this because I'm a dinosaur fan as a kid, but also as an observant movie viewer. I mean, as I can see it, it was one of the more big-budgeted production by TV's Hallmark Channel, mostly known for their adaptations of classic and contemporary tales. The special-effects were great, superb for something that was made for TV. The costumes really suit the environment. The large-scale sets, mostly evident, is really large-scale. It was like it came out of a Cecil B. DeMille's production or from the books by James Gurney, which it was based on. But special-effects and production designs aren't the only elements that elevates it as a large-scale movie. The acting is kinda good to. Although the cast is not as stellar as other Hallmark films/mini-series, but they still perform well. The story is wonderful, which may be nothing if it isn't told well. But it is, providing a dosage of action, adventure, comedy and even a little rarely touched romance. "Prison Break"'s Wentworth Miller co-stars, so most of you fans out there may want to see this. Anyway, this was a really great mini-series. It deserves to be put to the big-screen, but it may loose some things when it would be edited to shorten it. So, it's okay as it is. A fine, very interesting almost-3-hour family entertainment. TV movie rating: ****1/2 out of 5.

I found this to be absolutely enchanting. There is a richness to the cinematography reminiscent of the film Babe, making it super-real, and the special effects add a layer of beauty to the film, rather than being a distraction.There is a strong narrative thread, based around two half-brothers, washed up on the shores of the island. You have to make the leap into believing that somehow this island exists - almost undiscovered - as a haven where dinosaurs and humans co-exist.The drama is driven along by the fact that the brothers barely know each other, having been brought up by different mothers. As they search for their father, who was with them in a plane that crashed, their differences become exacerbated.With the exception of a lone tyrannosaurus attack, the story steers clear of the usual dinosaurs; instead it showcases some that appear less often in modern films, such as the enormous ankylosaurs, who act as acolytes and guards on the island.I found myself caught up in the magic as the brothers take a ride on a dinosaur bus to Waterfall City. One of the lovely conceits of the films is that dinosaurs and humans work with each other in a variety of different ways. It is through the interaction with dinosaurs that the brothers each go on a journey of self-discovery and development.There are some plot twists along the way, some love stories, and a complex villain, played very well by David Thewlis. The drama is divided up into rather lengthy sections. I find them enthralling and have watched them several times, but you really need to set a large chunk of an afternoon or an evening aside to enjoy each part.This is a very male-centred drama, the women tend to be brought on in supporting roles and sometimes the leading characters behave quite infuriatingly. However, even though you are, like the brothers, dropped in the deep end of the story, it all makes sense, all the important plot strands get resolved and you can come out of it wishing that the island was real.

There is a place where people can make movies and TV series by doing market research, finding out what people like, and then putting all together. This place is call Plotatopia....not far from Hollywood If you have dinosaurs, kids will love it. This is Dinatopia...a Harry Potteresque world where reality is turned not so much on it's head, but is leaning over dangerously.Dinatopia is an island where dinosaurs and humans lived together in some sort of harmony.It is a charming world, but each episode lacks a plot and a coherent reality....why is it that some Dinasours talk and smart, and others eat humans.....everyone lives in harmony, but you have people ordering each other around....and weapons are forbidden and fighting the carnivores is not allowed, but when they attack these attacks start happening....Oh well, it is for children.