| Primeval: The Complete Series 1 and 2 | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 16 reviews)
Sales Rank: 391
Category: DVD
Actors: Douglas Henshall, James Murray, Andrew Lee Potts, Lucy Brown, Hannah Spearritt
Directors: Andrew Gunn, Cilla Ware, Jamie Payne, Nick Murphy
Publisher: BBC Warner
Studio: BBC Warner
Brand: Warner Brothers
Label: BBC Warner
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 585 minutes
Number Of Items: 4
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 1
MPN: WARDE29760D
UPC: 794051423221
EAN: 0794051423221
ASIN: B001D2WUGG
Release Date: November 4, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/04/2008
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Primeval was created by Britain's ITV as a big-budget primetime Saturday rival to the success of the BBC's Doctor Who. But unlike some efforts to buy big ratings, there's actually a lot of entertainment throughout the series. The crux of the show surrounds a series of strange creatures from both the future and the past who appear to be roaming around in the present day. So what's going on? And what can be done about the dinosaur-esque creatures, big insects, and assorted parasitic life forms that are suddenly roaming the Earth? That's where professor Nick Cutter and his team come in, and the fun really begins. A surprisingly human action-drama, Primeval clearly draws influence from Doctor Who, and while it never really threatens to rival it, it is nonetheless a good show in its own right. The special effects are suitably smart, but, more importantly, there's also a half-decent script at the heart of things, and that really does help lift the show. The second season finds Cutter and his team once again dealing with creatures quite literally out of their time. But this time, Primeval has a few more tricks up its sleeve. Because while the convention for much of season 1 was that the creatures that faced Cutter and his crew were arriving from the past, this time round there are monsters from the future to worry about too. Cue the likes of a woolly mammoth on the motorway, and a raptor-esque chase around a shopping center. The show then blends in some twisty narratives surrounding the characters themselves, which--while not particularly intricate or surprising--do keep up the fun, and it does its best to throw as much at the screen as it can. Primeval is very good fun, worth rewatching, and suitable for family viewing too. --Jon Foster
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The BBC's Best effort to date! November 20, 2008
This is WITHOUT A DOUBT the BEST [most intense] TV series ever produced! It probably would have been too expensive to produce if some of the special effects used [some from WALKING WITH DINOSAURS and some from WALKING WITH PREHISTORIC BEASTS] hadn't been accessable. The casting was nearly perfect. The apparent bond formed among the cast looked similar to that formed by the cast of STARGATE SG1. It's too bad the BBC had to terminate such a good series after only [2] seasons. I have heard nothing but praise from everyone who has seen it. The only extra that I would like to have experienced dealt with the sound program. It's done in Stereo but using Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound would enhance the series.
Excellent!!! November 18, 2008
I was surprised that this show was so well written and filmed. The special effects are the best, the interaction and story line is excellent and I was hooked from the very first episode.
Cheers to the Brits!!!
Popcorn T.V. November 17, 2008
This show is like Godzilla with computer-generated creatures instead of guys in rubber suits. How? Because this show, like the Godzilla movies, features human characters and there lives which are really kind of dull and boring. Like the monsters of Godzilla, the monsters of Primeval are the stars, regardless of how much screentime they have. If I sound like I'm complaining I'm not. We love the Godzilla movies because of this, just as we love this show. Primeval is great. Unlike Doctor Who, which gave off corny, power ranger-jives, this show has more of a mature Sci-Fi touch. It gives off the feel of a documentary like Walking with Dinosaurs (surprise), except with a soap opera/drama backdrop, a la Buffy, Smallville, etc. albeit, shallow, and not very heartwrenching, or even interesting, (see Godzilla comparison above), instead of a narrator describing the actions of paleontologists digging up dinosaur fossils in addition to CGI prehistoric action (which is also exciting). So yes, the science in here is greatly exagerrated, and its not a thought provoking masterpiece, like, oh say, Jurassic Park (the book), but usually its nice to have something that's pure escapism, where you can just turn your mind off for 40 minutes or so, and just enjoy the ride, and help relieve yourself of the awful drudgeries that is work, school, chores, and anything else that just fills up our short lives with stress and aggravation and anything that requires thinking so hard it leaves your brain dead by the end of each weekday.
 ahhhh.... finally dinosaurs and creatures ..and more November 17, 2008
Now you dont have to wait for that next monster movie to come out as they
are comming out in every episode of Primeval. The cast and stories are
pretty good, but the creatures are great ! Once you start watching, its
hard to let go...till you've watched it all.
More please ....
Fun Family Creature Feature November 17, 2008
Great show! Great special effects, acting and stories. Love that we can all watch it together and get scared every week together because it's PG. So glad it came to the U.S!
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