This jaw-dropping series bringing dinosaurs to life is so immersive, so real, that you feel you are there, peering through a portal into an age that blows the mind.

Prehistoric Planet is a stunning feat of CGI. The dinosaurs look as real as any animal you see in a wildlife documentary. ... Channel your inner six-year-old and enjoy.

Could the pacing of Prehistoric Planet be a little better? Sure. But the presentation of realistic-looking prehistoric animals in real-life environments is stunning to watch, especially for those with 4K TVs.

The spectacle is wonderful, and the information valuable. But perhaps by the end there will be an appetite for something more about how that fossil record tells experts what it does. ... The 10-year-old in me has awakened, and with it the atavistic childhood prime directive: trust, yet verify.

The biggest compliment that might be paid to "Prehistoric Planet" is that a viewer won't care in the least [its been manufactured]—he or she will be swept up by the Mesozoic melodrama, worrying about the plight of the river-crossing Hadrosaurs the way they worry about lion-harassed wildebeest on the savannah, or be tickled by the monstrous Mosasaur—like a hippo wallowing in the cooling mud of Africa—having something of a prehistoric spa day as reef fish pick clean its molting skin.

A visual delight and a hugely educational watch, Prehistoric Planet is CGI technology at its best and with so many different species of dinosaur brought to life, this series is going to make the Ross Gellers of the world incredibly happy.

The result is a sometimes funny, but always delightful realistic exploration of a time long, long before humans walked the Earth.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

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I am normally a HUGE fan of any David Attenborough documentaries but I found myself just not quite clicking with Prehistoric Planet. It's a well made show no doubt, and I have to say the CGI is absolutely top-tier. The technical specifications of the show are seriously impressive. However, the trade-off of this is that it felt just a little bit less authentic to me. Something about the constructed nature of the scenes made the show just feel that less immersive . This, combined with the simple fact I find dinosaurs less interesting than present day animals, meant that the show just lacked that special spark that I love from other Attenborough shows. I also sorely missed the behind-the-scenes stuff.; it would have been cool to see how the CGI things were made or how the research was done and it feels like a missed opportunity.

Ridiculous and fake looking. At one point they had a Carnotaurus doing a mating dance with blue spindly chicken arms. Surely they can come up with a better explanation than that. Then there is a pterodactyl with a reindeer horn. Was it really like that? Can't they at least show us it as a sail for flying? The show just didn't move the pin forward or say anything that we didn't already know. The guests on the show seem like a bunch of know it alls who really know nothing and are an exact reflection of the poor portrayal of the dinosaur fossils in animated form as it seems they were the ones giving the 'scientific' advice. Also David Attenborough has past his expiry date. His voice is slow and raspy and hard to understand and there are much better alternatives. Walking with Dinosaurs is still waiting for a proper follow up.

I tried to give this a chance due to the high initial reviews, but quickly knew I wouldn't be able to stick with it. I mean, how can you go wrong when you have David Attenborough with score by Hans Zimmer? Plainly speaking -- there were two issues I could not get pasted: 1) the poor-looking CGI, and 2) the obviously fictitious happenings. The poor CGI really takes you out of it. It screams, "this is all fake". As for the contrived events, we consume fantasy storylines and great fiction all the time, but there is usually some grand stakes or captivating elements to engage us. This show is just dinosaurs doing whatever normie thing they do -- hunt or interact or survive, etc. This show helps you realize that you've got better things to do, or more entertaining things to watch.