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Prehistoric Park (2006)
Pretty silly really, but OK for kids.
This program was show here in Australia right before another program "The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs" was show on another channel. The latter actually had serious, interesting stuff to say along with all the pretty CGI, and certainly made this show seem rather insipid. Even after accepting the device of time-travel, this quasi-documentary doesn't hold up high in the credibility stakes. Waist-high wooden fences? Really.
Still, for pre-teens, this ought to hold the attention, with the novelty of the palaeontologist dodging the big creatures, and throwing in a sprinkling of prehistoric factoids. Nothing revolutionary, however.
Family Guy (1999)
'Simpsons' for the brain-dead.
I've watched numerous episodes of this series in the vain hope of figuring out what the hell it is that so many people love so much about it. No such luck. It just strikes me as 'The Simpsons' crossed with 'South Park' minus all traces of wit, irony, satire, and any other redeeming features of the aforementioned animated shows. The number of times I have laughed at this program I could count on one hand, and it's never been more than a mild chuckle.
Look, I'm fine with repulsive characters, tasteless jokes, un-PC behaviour and gross-out humour - as long as there's actually some kind of point to it. But in 'The Family Guy' I have found none.
And what is with all those pop-culture references, which are, again, used for zero effect? Oh, look, that bit they just did is like what happened in, umm, that movie. Err, hehe ... h ... hmm.
I don't think I've given another movie or TV program a single solitary star here at IMDb, but I'm going to do so here - I just can't think of any other screen offering with so little to recommend it.
Adventures in Rainbow Country (1969)
Friday, 3:30 am, 2005, in Australia watching TV, halfway through a bottle of Cointreau (don't ask), and this comes on - what the $@%#???
Just been through David Letterman and MAD TV, and expecting some crap like 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' to come on, and I get this bizarre offering from our Channel Nine. I wonder who was the programmer with the sense of humour.
Actually this show looks ahead of it's time - if I hadn't checked IMDb I would have placed it in the 70's - what with that big, ropey hair on those kids. I don't know what the hell is going on - I'm in no state to figure it out anyway, and I really don't think it would matter if I were.
Sheesh, the acting's bad - but that makes it all the funnier. But there's lots of flannel shirts, boots with tassels, canoes, Injuns, rapids, and some guy who looks like an uglier, TV answer to Robert Mitchum. Some guy gets rescued from some slightly dangerous looking rocks next to a raging river ... and now they're doing one of those cheesy rap-ups where everyone is gathered around discussing the episode's events, something supposedly profound is said, followed by a bad joke where everyone laughs to end it all on a light note, and the credits roll.
Heh - whatever.