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Chased By Sea Monsters

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This is a great video, for adults as well as kids. Note that The "Chased by Dinosaurs" DVD also contains the three episodes of "Chased by Sea Monsters".

Chased by sea monsters is a thrilling and fascinating exploration of the 7 deadliest oceans in history from the last half-billion years.The prehistoric monsters that lived in the oceans in different geological time periods like the jurassic,devonian,cretaceous,pliocene,eocene,triassic and ordovician.The marine reptiles like the mosasaurs and liopleurodon and giant sea scorpions and dunkleosteous(a 33ft.long armor plated fish),basilasaurus(a 65ft.long killer prehistoric whale) and the giant shark megalodon are brought to life in incredible and unbelievable realism as well as their ancient environments.The "hell`s aquarium" in the cretaceous period is the most dangerous with a variety of marine reptiles and 20ft.long killer fish.The red time-line that Nigel Marvin travels to each time period is very interesting and shows the vast amount of time and different eras and ages these sea monsters lived in.This dvd is educational as well as fun to watch for children and adults.

Ostensibly for children, this DVD had me and my husband GRIPPED. A bizarrely lifelike reconstruction of the earliest life in our oceans, it stars Nigel Marven - we're not worthy! we're not worthy! - an amiable, British, jug-eared zoologist who explains dinosaurs simply and thrillingly. Magic stuff!

Nigel Marven has another hit. Chased by Sea Monsters is a computer graphics lovers dream. But there is so much more to this DVD. Nigel gets right in the water with gigantic, ancient fish and reptiles. Well he doesn't actually, but with the computer graphics on this DVD it seems so real. Nigel tackles the seven deadliest of prehistoric earth. In the first sea he meets up with non-poisonous (but still dangerous)sea scorpions. There are armor-plated fish in the Devioian period, the whale eating shark(yes there were sharks bigger that whales)called Megalodon, which means 'big tooth', which is an understament!!! Nigel even has a few death defying moments, especially when he hitches a ride on the back of a huge sea turtle in, what he calls, "Hells Aquarium". There is a little information about what is going on on the land and in the air but it is what's in the sea that really can be quite terrifying. You may never look at your goldfish in the same loving way again.

I'm a big fan of dinosaurs and of Nigel Marvin. His exuberance is contagious as he has no problem imagining that he's surrounded by prehistoric sea monsters. The show follows Marvin and his crew as they 'travel' through seven of the most deadliest oceans Earth has ever known. The sea monsters are incredibly realistic as excellently rendered cg and detailed props are combined and used to great effect. Unlike the National Geographic Sea Monsters dvd, Chased By Sea Monsters offers a much greater variety of creatures and more educational content. I fully recommend this dvd for children and adults alike.

I bought this DVD not realizing it was a part of the Chased By Dinosaurs series, and paid $30 for a 45 minute episode. Then I realized the entire series (on 1 disc) was about the same price and was a little mad, although I really wasn't into the dinosaur episodes (rented on Netflix after all this happened) - I'm mostly into sea animals myself - so it wasn't TOO big a deal.

Fantastic graphics - when I first caught part of this on tv, my sister and I were unsure as to whether or not it was real! AND, Nigel Marvin, the zoologist hosting these shows, is an actual zoologist that works out in the field, not just an actor with computerized dinosaurs, which makes it doubly cool.

Two thumbs up, fascinating, exciting and informative :) I bought the CBD series for a few other people as presents and they were thrilled!

Chased by Sea Monsters is actually three separate documentaries, which bring to life the most frightening and dangerous sea creatures of all time.
The amount of effort and research put into this project, along with the fantastic computer graphics, help transport the viewer to another time allowing one to lay eyes on creatures that have been extinct for millions of years.
Shot on location at sea, zoologist Nigel Marvel does a great job of presenting the actual setting for these magnificent and terrifying creatures, which are very well and very accurately portrayed.
The re-enactment throughout the documentaries added a nice touch and one really does get the feeling that they are there, in Hell's Aquarium....
Strongly recommended along with the Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts and Walking with Cavemen series. 5 Stars

From the makers of 'Walking with Dinosaurs' comes this great special focusing on prehistoric sea monsters of all shapes and sizes - sea scorpions, placodonts, mososaurs, trilobites, arsionitherium, hesperornis and many others. Speaking as someone who grew up fascinated by dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, especially marine reptiles, I have to say that I LOVED this special! Which is why I went out and bought it on DVD as soon as I found it out was available.

The basic premise of the show is that host Nigel Marven is traveling back in time on his ship, the Ancient Mariner, to visit the seven deadliest seas of all time! We start off in the Ordovician, where Marven encounters the gigantic orthocone and sea scorpions, then move on to the first marine reptiles in the Triassic. In the Devonian period, Nigel gets in a shark cage to go face to face with a dunkleosteus, a monstrous armored fish. Next up, the Eocene, where we meet the serpent-like whale basilosaurus. From there we go on to the Pliocene to see megalodon, a giant relative of the great white that feasted upon whales, and the Jurassic, home of marine crocodiles, sharks and pliosaurs. And the most dangerous sea of all time? The Cretaceous, where Nigel encounters elasmosaurs and giant mososaurs.

All in all, children (especially those who love dinosaurs) will get a blast out of this educational special. The CGI is brilliantly interspersed with some animatronics (like the tanystropheus tail or the giant trilobite Nigel picks up) making the show look more believable. And the information is up-to-date too. Unfortunately, there are no special features, but if you want to really impress the kids I'd recommend buying this disc alongside the book (of the same title) or with National Geographic's more recent special 'Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure'. Great for anyone who loves pleisosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mososaurs and other marine reptiles from prehistory or for fans of the TV show Primeval!

The CGI work on this was top notch. The episodes were fun to watch and visually stunning. The actors were believable, adding much to the build up of tension and enjoyability of the show. In fact, I found myself holding my breath in places! I highly recommend this DVD. Well worth the money I spent on it.

Movie covers a few creatures from seven different periods. Moves quick enough to keep a childs attention.Be aware that there are 2 or 3 times that one creature eats another so watch out for really young ones!!.Great attention paid to detail...You actually could beleive that he was there!!!