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{{Infobox film
{{Infobox film
| name = Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
| name = Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
| image =
| image = Sea Monsters - A Prehistoric Adventure Coverart.png
| caption = DVD cover
| caption = DVD cover
| writer = Mose Richards
| writer = Mose Richards
| narrator = [[Liev Schreiber]]
| narrator = [[Liev Schreiber]]
| director = Sean MacLeod Phillips
| director = Sean MacLeod Phillips
| editing = Jonathan P. Shaw
| editing = Jonathan P. Shaw
| production_companies = [[National Geographic Films]]
| production_companies = [[National Geographic Films]]
| distributor = {{Plainlist|
| distributor = {{Plainlist|
* [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]]
* [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]]
}}
}}
| released = {{Film date|2007|10|05}}
| released = {{Film date|2007|10|05}}
| runtime = 40 minutes
| runtime = 40 minutes
| music = Richard Evans<br />[[David Rhodes (guitarist)|David Rhodes]]<br />[[Peter Gabriel]]
| music = Richard Evans<br />[[David Rhodes (guitarist)|David Rhodes]]<br />[[Peter Gabriel]]
| country = United States
| country = United States
| language = English
| language = English
| budget =
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'''''Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure''''' (also called '''Sea Monsters''') is a 2007 American [[IMAX 3D]] [[documentary film]] by [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]], about prehistoric [[marine reptile]]s. It alternates modern-day sequences about the work of scientists studying the animals with [[computer-animated]] scenes depicting the prehistoric past in the [[Hell Creek Formation]].
'''''Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure''''' (also called '''Sea Monsters''') is a 2007 American [[IMAX 3D]] [[documentary film]] by [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]], about prehistoric [[marine reptile]]s. It alternates modern-day sequences about the work of scientists studying the animals with [[computer-animated]] scenes depicting the prehistoric past.


''Sea Monsters'' was well received by critics. The [[tie-in]] video game, however, was panned.
''Sea Monsters'' was well received by critics. The [[tie-in]] video game, however, was panned.


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
Brings to life some of the most bizarre, ferocious and fascinating creatures to ever inhabit the ocean. Combines animation with recreations in a prehistoric adventure. A journey to the bottom of the ancient oceans dramatizes awe-inspiring creatures.
It's 80 million years ago during the end of the Cretaceous period, nearby in the waters of Hell Creek. Dolly, a female ''[[Dolichorhynchops]],'' travels the Kansas Inland Sea with her family. They encounter various creatures in the late Cretaceous oceans of Hell Creek, such as a ''[[Tylosaurus]]'', a ''[[Xiphactinus]]'', a ''[[Cretoxyrhina]]'', and [[Ammonoidea|ammonites.]]


===Prehistory segments===
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Dolly gets attacked by a shark after her mother was killed by another shark. Dolly survives due to a passing mosasaur killing the shark, albeit with a tooth embedded in her flipper. Later, Dolly's brother is swallowed whole by a young ''[[Tylosaurus]]'', who in turn is killed by a larger member of its kind, leaving Dolly alone. Dolly survives to adulthood and goes on to have young of her very own. After seasons of traveling around the Inland sea, Dolly finally dies peacefully of old age.
The protagonist of the story is Dolly, a female ''[[Dolichorhynchops]]'' who travels the Kansas Inland Sea with her family, 80 million years ago during the late [[Cretaceous]] period.

They encounter various creatures, including, ''[[Tylosaurus]]'', ''[[Xiphactinus]]'', ''[[Cretoxyrhina]]'', and [[Ammonoidea|Ammonites.]]

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Dolly gets attacked by a shark (''[[Squalicorax]]'') after her mother was killed by another shark (''[[Cretoxyrhina]]''). Dolly survives due to a passing ''[[Tylosaurus]]'' killing the shark, albeit with a tooth embedded in her flipper. Later, Dolly's brother is swallowed whole by a young ''[[Tylosaurus]]'', who in turn is killed by a larger member of its kind, leaving Dolly alone. Dolly survives to adulthood and goes on to have young of her very own. After seasons of traveling around the Inland sea, Dolly finally dies peacefully of old age.

=== Live-action segments ===
* [[South Australia]], 2002: Two paleontologists in the [[Australian Outback]] discovered [[plesiosaur]]s, 95% of them juveniles.
* [[Central Texas]], 1980: A road crew near [[Austin, Texas]], discover [[ammonite]] fossils in a quarry. During the Cretaceous, Texas was underwater and the quarry was part of the [[Permian Basin (North America)|Permian Basin]].
* [[Kansas|Western Kansas]], 1918: [[Charles Hazelius Sternberg|Charles Sternberg]] and his sons [[Levi Sternberg|Levi]] and [[George F. Sternberg|George]] discover a 29-foot-long ''[[Tylosaurus]]'' that had a ''[[Dolichorhynchops]]'' in it.
* Phosphate Mine, [[Negev Desert]], [[Israel]], 1998: A quarry in Europe reveals a [[mosasaur]] skull.
* Western Kansas, 1952: [[George F. Sternberg|George Sternberg]], Charles's older son, makes a discovery in [[Gove County, Kansas]]. A 13-foot-long ''[[Xiphactinus]]'' containing, below the ribs, a 6-foot-long fish, a ''[[Gillicus]]'', which took up about half of the length of the ''Xiphactinus'', killing it instantly.
* [[North Dakota]], 1995: Two amateur collectors go into a cave in North Dakota, and find a wealth of teeth from sharks, specifically ''[[Cretoxyrhina]]'' and ''[[Squalicorax]]''.
* [[The Netherlands]], 1998: A Dutch quarry reveals a mosasaur skeleton with bite marks from sharks.
* [[South Dakota]], 1978: The [[Badlands National Park]], in [[Rapid City, South Dakota]], reveals a ''Tylosaurus'' skeleton that had eaten multiple creatures in one meal.


== Creatures featured ==
== Creatures featured ==
* [[Ammonite]]
* [[Ammonite]]
* ''[[Baculites]]''
* ''[[Baculites]]'' (identified as "straight-shelled ammonites")
* ''[[Bananogmius]]'', an extinct genus of bony fish.
* ''[[Bananogmius]]'', an extinct genus of bony fish
* ''[[Caproberyx]]'', a species of fish.
* ''[[Caproberyx]]'', an extinct genus of bony fish
* ''[[Cretoxyrhina]]'', a large shark.
* ''[[Cretoxyrhina]]'', a large shark
* ''[[Dolichorhynchops]]'', a genus of [[plesiosaur]] from the end of the Mesozoic era, and the main animal in the film.
* ''[[Dolichorhynchops]]'' (often shortened to "dollies" in the story), a genus of [[plesiosaur]] and the main animal in the film.
* ''[[Enchodus]]'', a species of bony fish.
* ''[[Enchodus]]'', an extinct genus of bony fish
* ''[[Gillicus]]'', a relatively small, 2-meter long ichthyodectid fish.
* ''[[Gillicus]]'', a relatively small, 2-meter long ichthyodectid fish
* ''[[Gorgosaurus]]'', a cousin of ''[[Tyrannosaurus]]''.
* ''[[Gorgosaurus]]'', a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur
* ''[[Henodus]]'', a placodont with a shell from the Triassic.
* ''[[Henodus]]'' (cameo), a placodont with an elaborate shell of the Late Triassic period
* ''[[Hesperornis]]'', an extinct genus of flightless aquatic birds that lived also at the end of the Mesozoic.
* ''[[Hesperornis]]'', an extinct genus of flightless aquatic birds
* ''[[Inoceramus]]'', an extinct genus of giant clam.
* ''[[Inoceramus]]'', an extinct genus of giant clam
* [[Jellyfish]]
* [[Jellyfish]] (live-acted)
* ''[[Kronosaurus]]'', an extinct genus of short-necked pliosaur that lived during the early to late Cretaceous period.
* ''[[Kronosaurus]]'' (cameo), an extinct genus of short-necked pliosaur
* ''[[Leptecodon]]'', a genus of prehistoric fish.
* ''[[Leptecodon]]'', a genus of prehistoric fish
* ''[[Nothosaurus]],'' an extinct genus of Triassic reptile.
* ''[[Nothosaurus]]'' (cameo), an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile
* ''[[Platecarpus]]'', an extinct genus of aquatic mosasaur belonging to the plesiosaur family.
* ''[[Platecarpus]]'', an extinct genus of aquatic lizard belonging to the mosasaur family
* ''[[Protosphyraena]]'', a fossil genus of swordfish-like marine fish.
* ''[[Protosphyraena]]'', a fossil genus of swordfish-like marine fish
* ''[[Protostega]]'', a prehistoric species of marine turtle.
* ''[[Protostega]]'', an extinct species of marine turtle
* ''[[Pteranodon]]'', one of the largest pterosaur genera.
* ''[[Pteranodon]]'', one of the largest pterosaur genera
* ''[[Squalicorax]]'', a genus of extinct lamniform shark.
* ''[[Squalicorax]]'', a genus of extinct lamniform shark
* ''[[Styxosaurus]]'', a genus of plesiosaur of the family Elasmosauridae that lived in the middle part of the late Cretaceous time period.
* ''[[Styxosaurus]]'', a genus of plesiosaur of the family Elasmosauridae
* ''[[Temnodontosaurus]]'', a big ichthyosaur species from the Jurassic.
* ''[[Temnodontosaurus]]'' (cameo), a big ichthyosaur
* ''[[Tusoteuthis]]'', a genus of Cretaceous cephalopod molluscs.
* ''[[Tusoteuthis]]'', a genus of Cretaceous cephalopod molluscs
* ''[[Tylosaurus]]'', a giant mosasaur.
* ''[[Tylosaurus]]'', a giant mosasaur
* ''[[Uintacrinus]]''
* ''[[Uintacrinus]]'' (identified as "[[crinoid]]"), a floating colonial crinoid
* ''[[Xiphactinus]]'', a large, predatory fish species.
* ''[[Xiphactinus]]'', a {{convert|4.5|to|5|m|ft|abbr=on}} long predatory bony fish


== Soundtrack ==
== Soundtrack ==

Revision as of 02:26, 19 October 2024

Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
DVD cover
Directed bySean MacLeod Phillips
Written byMose Richards
Narrated byLiev Schreiber
Edited byJonathan P. Shaw
Music byRichard Evans
David Rhodes
Peter Gabriel
Production
company
Distributed by
Release date
  • October 5, 2007 (2007-10-05)
Running time
40 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (also called Sea Monsters) is a 2007 American IMAX 3D documentary film by National Geographic, about prehistoric marine reptiles. It alternates modern-day sequences about the work of scientists studying the animals with computer-animated scenes depicting the prehistoric past.

Sea Monsters was well received by critics. The tie-in video game, however, was panned.

Plot

Brings to life some of the most bizarre, ferocious and fascinating creatures to ever inhabit the ocean. Combines animation with recreations in a prehistoric adventure. A journey to the bottom of the ancient oceans dramatizes awe-inspiring creatures.

Prehistory segments

The protagonist of the story is Dolly, a female Dolichorhynchops who travels the Kansas Inland Sea with her family, 80 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period.

They encounter various creatures, including, Tylosaurus, Xiphactinus, Cretoxyrhina, and Ammonites.

Dolly gets attacked by a shark (Squalicorax) after her mother was killed by another shark (Cretoxyrhina). Dolly survives due to a passing Tylosaurus killing the shark, albeit with a tooth embedded in her flipper. Later, Dolly's brother is swallowed whole by a young Tylosaurus, who in turn is killed by a larger member of its kind, leaving Dolly alone. Dolly survives to adulthood and goes on to have young of her very own. After seasons of traveling around the Inland sea, Dolly finally dies peacefully of old age.

Live-action segments

Soundtrack

The film's ambient soundtrack was composed by Richard Evans. David Rhodes and Peter Gabriel performed the end credits song "Different Stories Different Lives". The soundtrack has never been officially released.

Release

The film was released on October 5, 2007. It was promoted with a line of toys from Wild Republic.[1] It won the "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project" award at the Visual Effects Society Awards 2007.

Reception

The film earned a 100% "Fresh" rating from 12 positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. John Anderson of Variety wrote "the science seems sound and the story is exciting", and found it superior to 3D films that merely use the extra dimension as a gimmick.[2] Matt Seitz of The New York Times was impressed by the digital spectacle.[3] The Seattle Times, Orlando Sentinel and Chicago Tribune were of much the same mind.[4][5][6]

Video game

Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure was made into a game by DSI Games and published by Zoo Digital Publishing. It was released on the Wii, PlayStation 2, and Nintendo DS on October 25, 2007. Players can control Thalassomedon, Henodus, Temnodontosaurus, Tylosaurus, Dolichorhynchops and Nothosaurus in an open-world setting, with no fixed goal besides collecting all the hidden fossils.

The game received poor reviews across all platforms.[7][8][9] Cheat Code Central's Amanda L. Kondolojy found the Wii version of the game conceptually interesting, but marred by poor execution, especially in terms of controls.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sea Monsters Toys Arrive From Wild Republic". 2008-01-26. Archived from the original on April 10, 2008.
  2. ^ Anderson, John (2007-10-09). "Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure". Variety.
  3. ^ Seitz, Matt (2007-10-05). "B.C. in 3-D". The New York Times.
  4. ^ Fry, Ted (2007-10-05). "Sea Monsters It's not your typical fish story". The Seattle Times.
  5. ^ Moore, Roger (2007-10-12). "Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure". Orlando Sentinel.
  6. ^ Meister, Erin (2007-10-17). "Prehistoric creatures come alive in 3-D". The Boston Globe.
  7. ^ a b Kondolojy, Amanda. "Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure Review for the Nintendo Wii". Cheat Code Central. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  8. ^ Bishop, Sam (13 June 2008). "Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure Review". IGN. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
  9. ^ Guacamole, Joey (22 January 2011). "Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure". ZTGameDomain. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
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