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Well, duh! And apparently, when you tame wild pteradons to fly you around, build saddles for them and everything, it never crosses your mind to build in a safety harness so you can't fall off.bah! You just have to cling white-knuckled to them and hope for the best. Later the group overlook this attempted murder and join up with him. At one point he throws Zippo (in a sack) into a sewer, intending to kill him. The villain of the piece, Cyrus Crabbe (David Thewlis) was the most interesting character in the whole story. So it's rather puzzling how it remained unnoticed for so long. It also happened to lie alongside the main river which flows out of Waterfall City. Yet in each long shot we see of it the temple is clearly visible above the trees and therefore to the skyriders as well. There was also some nonsense about a lost temple being a gateway to the "World Beneath" and which had been lost for ages. I kept looking at him and wondering just what kind of brain could be in a head the size of a fist. Then there was Zippo, the dino equivalent of C3PO. In fact, coupled with his foolish costume he reminded more than a little of Andy Pandy, just not as bright.
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I'm sorry, but it looked like something that would be more at home on Ronald McDonald's head, not the head of a nation. Also, any shred of authority the mayor had was completely destroyed by his ludicrous hat. And all I could tell was that I liked it even less than one of the brothers did (I can't remember which one was the anti-establishment brother since they were both equally bland and uninteresting actors). Was it meant to be Communism? Or some form of dictatorship by committee? I was never sure. I have to say that I ended somewhat confused by the government/philosophical system as practised by the Dinotopians. Unfortunately, I found this particular production to be overlong and tedious for the most part, with an entirely too predictable plot and far too many "Why would they do that's" thrown in for bad measure. So anything that has dinosaurs in it, automatically ensures that I'll watch it. I have to say that, ever since I was a kid, I've been fascinated with dinosaurs.