Critic Reviews

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  Despite a welcome lack of Disneyfied sentimentality - no tears are solicited for banged-up young'uns - the film never acquires a rhythm.

• Derek Adams, Time Out

  Dull, meaningless and pretty frustrating film.

• Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice

  If they're never fully convincing as photo-realistic figures, they're certainly as much good gory fun to watch as any old-school monster kids had to stick with dreary first acts to see.

• Fr. Chris Carpenter, Movie Dearest

  (The filmmakers) make the creatures' varied plights unexpectedly amusing and disarmingly moving. The CGI quality runs hot and cold...(but the film) is gripping, droll and poignant in equal measure.

• Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com

  Plays like a series of cut-scenes from a 1997 PlayStation game.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  Dinotasia is narrated by Werner Herzog with his customary shock and awe.

• Adam Lee Davies, Little White Lies

  [A] well-meaning but listless compendium of unconnected prehistoric CG dino-vignettes that is as sure to bore children as it is to bemuse adults.

• Simon Kinnear, Total Film

  Werner Herzog's grandiose, unintentionally camp narration adds entertainment value, but there's zero educational sustenance in the film's servings of synthetic gore.

• Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine

  This decision to avoid treating the dinosaurs as surrogate people for easy identification is both the film's boldest move and the source of much of its problems.

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