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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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HOLLYWOOD TARBOSAURUS 3D
EDITOR'S PICK
`Tarbosaurus
3D` entertaining film for children
Rating: **
About 80 million years ago, the world didn`t look, feel or smell as it does
today. Most of the creatures we take for granted today, including ourselves,
either did not exist, or were too invisible to be counted. Why? Because
dinosaurs, of different shapes and sizes and makes, dominated the planet.
What would life have been back then and what kinds of stories panned out in the
terrain of the times? Korean film "Tarbosaurus 3D" that is dubbed in
English, tries to answer these questions.
However, despite the decent special effects and oodles of information, unless
you are below seven years old, it`s unlike you will enjoy this children`s film
despite its attempts to tug at your heart strings.
A family of Tarbosaurus - mother, elder brother and twin sisters of one-year-old
Spotty, hunt in a pack and live peacefully and happily. However, a red
Tarbosaurus, One Eyed, kills the family and the young, small and vulnerable
dinosaur is left to fend for himself.
As years go by, he finds a female dinosaur and the two become a couple. But One
Eyed`s shadow is never far behind as he keeps messing Spotty`s life again and
again. In the end, he has no option left to fight his old nemesis and get rid of
him once and for all.
"Tarbosaurus 3D" is a children`s educational-entertainment film. Its
sole purpose is to inform kids about the way the world was once upon a time and
the different types of dinosaurs that ruled this planet. To that effect, it is a
good film because information that would be needless if it had any other
intention but to be an educational film, pops up every now and then.
Small kids would have a good, entertaining time with the film. Adults will
however be bored despite attempts at a story.
It is a patch work of many other animal films, from a "Lion King" from
which the stampede scene that kills the family has been taken, to "Ice
Age", which inspires the migration scene. Yet, as a film it`s no patch on
any of these films.
There are many other faults as well. Though the dinosaurs have been created
well, the landscape is nowhere close to what it was 80 million years back where
big trees with big leaves ruled the planet and fed the big herbivorous
dinosaurs.
Yet, the film does end up becoming a good showcase for the special effects
creative talents of Korea. What Hollywood can do, it seems they can do equally
well.
