Walking With Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie Review

 It is a depressing world we live in now where the BBC would put its name to something as insipid, bloodless, pseudo-educational and offensively anthropomorphised as this brand-extension of the once-mighty Walking With Dinosaurs series. Especially when you consider that all the hard graft and impressive craftsmanship on the behalf of the visual-effects artists (laying wonderfully textured and expressive CG beasts over real locations) has been wrecked by the decision to insert chirp-pop songs and voice the principal dinosaurs. Relentlessly so. Barely a moment passes where neither Justin Long nor John Leguizamo lamely quip or make a poo joke or pointlessly narrate events that a three-year-old could have followed in a direlogue-free cut. Note to the film-makers: children are smarter than you evidently think.