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Walking with Cavemen | Year: 2003 Directed: - Richard Dale - Pierre de Lespinois Walking with Cavemen This documentary is totally inappropraite for children and should not be advertised as a part of the "Walking with..." series. Unlike "Dinosaurs" and "Prehistoric Beasts", this addresses issues and depicts situations which can not correctly be understood by children. Adult viewers:4 stars; Children: 1 star. Where's the realism What made the "Walking With..." series worth seeing was the creation of photo-like moving pictures of prehistoric animals as they may of been. "Walking With Cavemen" falls far short of this. Modern humans have bigger heads and higher foreheads than early Hominids. Putting actors in monkey suits results in unbeleivable pictures of early ape-men with big heads and high foreheads. <BR> This series has always tended to spoil the images with cheap melodrama, and this one even more so. In real biology the herbivores have to greatly outnumber the carnivores. In the "Walking With..." movies they always seem to have a world where its the other way round. <BR> Give us more beautiful images, and less violence. hope the DVD is better- TV is DISAPPOINTING I haven't seen the DVD version, but if Alec Baldwin is narrating it I won't bother buying it. He is living proof that every village does indeed have its own idiot, and that he should count for 2. He is living proof that devolution does indeed occur! For the money that he was paid, one would think that he would at least try to sound 1) interested and 2) somewhat able to pronounce the words he is paid to say into the camera. Why couldn't Kenneth Branagh narrate this episode of the Walking series? We know that he is an actor, and not a scientist, but he 1) sounds interested and 2) correctly pronounces the names of the creatures he is talking about. Branagh's entertainment background makes the series much more palatable and enjoyable. Baldwin comes across like the village idiot trying to read a primer aloud when he is known to be totally illiterate. His narration is tawdry and strained. Baldwin makes Branagh look like a Rhodes Scholar. What is so hard about saying "Australopithecus Afarensis" correctly? Apparently it was past Baldwin's obviously limited skills. At least he isn't reprising Hamlet! I really liked the material presented, even though Bobo the Chimp could have done it better than blithering Baldwin, and was quite pleasantly surprised that the BBC has made an often esoteric subject interesting and approachable. Both my children (both under 7) loved the previous Walking DVD's and I am looking forward to purchasing the latest one. My only other minor disappointment is that the producers seem to have rushed through this installment as it was only 2 hours in length. I think that when dealing with such an important area of the past of our species, more should be covered and in greater depth, and without the distraction of a has-been actor who hasn't enough professionalism to do his homework beforehand, and who appears as though he is narrating some seedy reality show rather than well researched and produced programming that directly reflects the past of humankind. As a teacher, I have used the previous Walking videos extensively, but am really leery about using this one, as I will have to narrate over the blithering one to correct his mispronunciation of every faintly relevant scientific term. Buy Walking With Cavemen at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Walking With Cavemen Search with the Priority Search Engine on Walking With Cavemen This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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