My review of the 2004 documentary The Last Dragon / Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real - one of my favourite things to watch and needs more recognition and coverage. Enjoy.
The mountain dragons are supposed to look like they don’t belong in the mountains The humans drove the dragons to the mountains when humans started domesticating livestock Also, the male in this section flew from Africa Just makes you think just how much their range has shrunk
This was a bloody brilliant mockumentary. It was epic. And the score! The music for Tanner's segments was needlessly badass, whilst the score for the dragon's segments was absolutely beautiful! Nah, nah. Its Ian Holme? You learn something every day, and thats a hell of a thing to learn. But of course! Of course Bilbo Baggins would narrate a documentary on a discovery of dragons in the mountains lol. Brilliant.
Same, I saw it when I was maybe 7 and thought it was a true documentary. I remember wondering why I hadn't heard about this and why nobody was blown away that we found real dragon bones
This is by far my favorite science fiction documentary I love it since I was a kid I like both versions of the animal planet version and the movie version I guess you can call it. To be honest I just called it a science-fiction documentary but that’s just me though you can call it a mockumentary as you want
A wonderful and thorough review! The designs for the dragons are superb and I'm sad we never got to see the desert dragon. I might just have to make my own video on this someday...
For the roars of the T-Rex, they are reused Tarbosaurus and Giganotosaurus roars from Chased by Dinosaurs. As far as the pterosaur models are concerned, they look and sound like the Pteranodons from 2001's The Lost World and 2003's Chased by Dinosaurs second episode Land of Giants and Sea Monsters.
My babysitter actually recorded it On her VHS way back in the day and this was on the discovery channel version the same way she did it with the discovery channel version of walking with dinosaurs much later on I did watch the movie version the one called dragons world of fantasy main real or last Dragon and it’s much better than the animal planet version in my personal opinion
@@mariobalestrieri7488 At the end when the guy learned that a second Dragon had been discovered, I thought that we were going to get a sequel that would show more Dragons including the Lindwyrms and Wyverns turning the special into a franchise and maybe we’d get spin offs for other Mythical Creatures like Griffins and Unicorns.
The dragon designs are pretty cool I do like the mountain dragon design I also like the story of the mountain Dragon much better story and you kind of feel sorry because she is the last of her kind or her species. The prehistoric dragon design was also pretty cool and I did like the fight scene with the t Rex and the prehistoric dragon. The Tyrannosaurus design looks pretty cool in my personal opinion it looks better than prehistoric parks and obviously the primeval Rex. The narrator it’s a really good buy their own right like Patrick Stewart from the animal planet version he did a good job and the movie version the narrator that narrated monsters we met a.k.a. land of lost monsters and the music is awesome I enjoy it a lot
And also I forget other 2 ones. ,,MonsterQuest'' is about a expedition searching of crypzology history creatures where hiding of humans and live they natural habitats in modern today. And ,,Prehistoric Planet'' is another dinosaur documentary is actually same with Walking With Dinosaurs but most accuarate documentary ever.
Oh yeah there's plenty I didn't include I just used the ones which have special effects made by Impossible Pictures or are related like Primeval New World
Great video! I loved your review, voice and narration. Personally, I fancy dragons as creatures of the land, sea and air, and I don't care how farfetched that sounds to anybody else. Resolution.
To be fair to your criticism about how the explanation of how dragons evolved in the first place wasn't explored, that concept ALONE could honestly take up the length of a documentary. Plus, the documentary also has to address Tanner's story, so some things have to be left unexplained for the sake of pace. Honestly, I feel this documentary could have been even better as a miniseries, as it would have allowed us to learn more about this world in which dragons existed.
Thanks for bringing this up in the comments on Hodgepodge’s review of Chased by Dinosaurs: Land of Giants. Also, you have a great voice. Sounds like a young Alan Rickman (RIP).
@@AncientRealms1999 You’re welcome. You just earned yourself a subscriber. I hope you do reviews on the Walking with series. Also, that opening to this review was perfect. Finally, while I get why you’re not a fan of the Animal Planet version, I actually like it. Patrick Stewart’s narration is awesome. If they ever do a sequel to this TV movie, he’d be a worthy successor to the late Ian Holm to tell the story of Jack Tanner.
@@speedracer2008 Oh yeah Patrick Stewart has an amazing voice very suited for the role, nothing against that. And thanks I might do some walking with reviews at some point in the future but quite busy with the primeval episode breakdowns currently.
❤You know, there is a possibility that dragons really did exist, at least like four limbed ones. For example, most of them would have hollow bones and delicate skeletons like birds, and even big bird bones don't fossilize very well. That can explain why we can't find any fossils of them. Another one is that they also could have air sacs inside them, also like birds, to make them lighter and fly better. Not to mention, if dragons can belch hydrogen out of their mouths and had an organ to spark it, like electric mussels. Similar to electric eels, the mussels spark the gas and BOOM, fire! I know it may be wishful thinking, but when you really think about it, dragons may not be so outlandish as you think. There are stranger beasts in the real world more outlandish than dragons. There is a real reason for saying, "Truth is stranger than fiction.", after all. ❤
I think "The Last Dragon" is easily the best Animal Planet "mythical creature documentary" and it's unfair to lump it in with actual garbage like, "Finding Bigfoot" and "Mermaids: The Body Found"
5:39 how is it far fetched? animals are smarter then we give them credit for and an animal with the ability to breathe fire learning that cooking it's food makes it easier to eat seems like the logical next step for an animal wit such an ability
I don't think that is too farfetched that Prehistoric Dragons where capable of reaching those sizes. Taking into consideration that they weighted 400kg at best (About twice the weight of a Quetzalcoatlus) and is implied they were ambush predators. They could take down quite a lot of preys big enough to feed at least two adults of these things. Triceratops would be out of the menu because if it wasn't the T-Rex would have been outcompeted long ago. My assumption is that they focused on Hadrosaur species, maybe young sauropods and cannibalism. The thing I find wierd is that the father is not present being a hardcore K-selective species. Why? You may ask, well. Female and male territories overlap, that means that the young is being raised inside a male territory. Aka: Papa. He knows it is his ofspring and yet ignores him risking his young to die. I also assume that the father was dead, because the old dragon managed to enter the territory and the father of the young didn't go to eat the carcas of the mother earlier
@@AncientRealms1999 The only thing I don't like about the Prehistoric Dragon are the wings. I don't like those purposely reduced wings. I'd rather a more natural take on those, more extended towards their hips. Although they are good each time I see them I find them worse
@@hoshikun6605 Fair enough, they are a bit small but if they were the true size in proportion to the creature they'd probably look too large for what the show wanted to use them for and look odd. I don't mind either way really plus we get the hydrogen explanation as to how they can fly.
