Product Details

• Actors: Alexander Scourby, Leslie Nielsen, Joseph Campanella, Orson Welles, Richard Basehart
• Directors: Alexander Grasshoff, Aram Boyajian, Bert Haanstra, David Seltzer, Jack Kaufman
• Writers: James Lipscomb
• Producers: Al Giddings, Alexander Grasshoff, Bud Wiser, James Lipscomb
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
• VHS Release Date: July 8, 1997
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304475705
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #232,172 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Without the usual wildlife footage (since cameras obviously weren't around millions of years ago), the folks at National Geographic get very creative in the dinosaur segment of this 44-minute video. Using a combination of traditional and stop-motion animation, a paleontologist interview, silent-film stock, and clips from corny dinosaur movies, narrator Spin (planet Earth as voiced by Dudley Moore) tells the prehistoric slice-of-life story of a Hadrosaurus-egg-stealing Struthiomimus member who, in turn, meets an untimely end at the claws of raptors. As the second segment's title suggests, "Creature Features" is framed as a faux horror movie with Moore adopting a creepy tone as he tells of blood-sucking (and regurgitating) mother bats and squirming maggots who metamorphose into flies. By using this format, the episode has it both ways. It uses a spooky façade to entertain the kids, while debunking the very horror movie myths it capitalizes upon. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Product Description

Get ready to meet some of the most amazing animals to roam the earth with Spin, National Geographic's animated globe-on-the-go. Start with a major time-travel back to the days of raging raptors and the terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex, when dinosaurs ruled the earth! And watch out, because lots of living reptile relatives of the dinosaurs like alligators, lizards, and snakes, are still slithering around today. Plus, see some of the world's creepiest creatures such as spiders, ants, dung beetles, and more. Award-winning cinematography and rockin' music videos will blast you back to the past. Take a walk on the wild side with Spin and DINOSAURS AND OTHER CREATURE FEATURES! It's just one of the many Really Wild Animals adventures in this series.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly Entertaining, August 31, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: National Geographic's Really Wild Animals: Dinosaurs and Other Creature Features [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I watched this video with my two sons, ages 6 and 13, and we all loved it! The music, the photography, the animation, the narration and the fun (and sometimes gross) facts make this video well worth it. What an entertaining way to get kids interested and involved in learning more about the world around them!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really wild animals, June 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: National Geographic's Really Wild Animals: Dinosaurs and Other Creature Features [VHS] (VHS Tape)

My two sons (ages 5 and 3) LOVE this video. Not only does it cover some of their favorite topics- Dinosaurs, bugs, spiders and snakes - but it also includes very interesting, factual and detailed information. And, it makes it fun! Parents will find this interesting as well. It would be a good idea to watch it WITH younger children as some kids may be disturbed by the more graphic/scary dinosaur scenes. Dudley Moore is great as the narrator, and we are planning to get more of National Geographic's Really Wild Animals videos!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My 3 yr. old son loves this one!, February 7, 2001

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This review is from: National Geographic's Really Wild Animals: Dinosaurs and Other Creature Features [VHS] (VHS Tape)

We rented this video and my son watched it about 10 times. After we returned it to the store, he kept asking for it so I am here at Amazon.com to buy it for him. He loves "Spin" the narrating globe.