DVD:
2008
Rated: G
Genre: Kids/Family Animated Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy Comedy
Running Time: 2:00
Review by: Felix Vasquez Jr.
Review Date: 9/4/08

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DINOSAUR KING: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS (DVD)

 

Like Bakugan, like Yu-Gi-Oh, like Pokemon, and like Transformers, “Dinosaur King” is really just a series that serves the purpose of advertising the upcoming SEGA game. It’s yet another Asian card game about another group of tweens who battle to through digital wrist devices that manifest the monsters to rumble. Instead now it’s a bit lazy. It’s about dinosaurs who serve as resident monsters upon which most of these series revolve around. There’s a villainous T-Rex, and a protagonist Triceratops and goody, there’s also a bonus card for the kids in the DVD! Look, I know I’m not the target audience for this DVD, so the odds of me liking it are better than me sitting through an episode of “American Idol.”

So our hero Max (voiced by the same woman who played Ash in “Pokemon”—don’t ask why I know that), member of D-Team, witnesses a meteor crash in to the forest and is granted the ability to summon dinosaurs along with his two other friends. Like “Digimon,” these dinosaurs serve as guardians to the team during their battles and appear as adorable little pets when not in card battles… and there’s a lot of wild colors and really bad dinosaur animation that is imposed on the 2D animation through CGI and is just an all around poor fit for the atmosphere of the series.  

Not that it matters really, I mean I didn’t understand a darn thing that was going on and I haven’t had this much trouble bringing plot together since “Mulholland Drive,” but that’s the baggage that comes with anime, I suppose. If you’re epileptic, you’d do well to avoid this series as the battles involved splash erratic colors of red blue and pink and is dizzyingly spread along every twenty minute episode. There’s also one of the worst theme songs for an animated series I’ve ever heard. I was getting kind of nauseous after the first episode, so watch your step. This series just isn’t for me. As for the DVD, we’re given two “extras,” astonishingly. Behind the Roar: Triceratops is a thirty second commercial about the main protagonist the Triceratops. A Sneak Peek at Dinosaur King from SEGA is a forty four second commercial for the upcoming DS game. These aren’t extras.

I'm not the target audience for "Dinosaur King" so there was a good chance I wouldn't enjoy it anyway, but for the kids who love stuff like "Bakugan" and "Yu-Gi-Oh," I'd say that "Dinosaur King" definitely has something in store for them that will entertain and amuse; I base that on my seven year old nephew who had a blast while watching it with me.

 

 

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