Word: allosaurus
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...this three-hour special, which drew more than half the viewing audience when the BBC aired it last fall, are pure computer animation and animatronic puppetry. But unlike Jurassic Park's behemoths, Walking's dinos spend most of their time eating, mating and migrating in between the odd Allosaurus attack. Beastly but bucolic, they're virtual animals, not monsters...
...intimations of horror for generations. In Grimm's fairy tales, what does the wolf do to Red Riding Hood's granny or the witch plan to do to Hansel? When kids collect dinosaurs, parents, blinded by science, simply shrug when their children yell in the museum, "Look, mom, that allosaurus is eating the brachiosaur's baby!" After that, what can be objectionable about the too-cute-to-live Pokemon named Jigglypuff, a ball of fluff whose greatest power--not to be scoffed at--is a stupefying lullaby...
...scientist--came upon a few small bones embedded 500 ft. up in the 92 million-year-old stone. Within a few days, the explorers had unearthed the virtually complete skeleton of a previously unknown predator. It was a 27-ft.-long monster similar in size to the North American Allosaurus but far leaner and presumably quicker as well; the scientists named it Deltadromeus agilis, or "agile delta runner." A few days later, Sereno came up with an even more spectacular find: the skull of another meat eater whose head, at least, was a shade bigger than that...
...once again, the sound track consists of groan-up dialogue that could have been prerecorded at a pet shop. Just as in the original, the special-effects man creates a table-top monster rally that comes to a clumsy climax in a duel between a triceratops and an allosaurus-the least exciting rematch since the second Clay-Liston fight...
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