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Walking With Cavemen is still a mildly entertaining and informativeprogram, if not to be taken entirely seriously as a genuinepresentation of science. The less heralded (and unfortunately stillunavailable on DVD) Channel 4 presentation Neanderthal , was a muchbetter effort (us.imdb.com/title/tt0370053/)
Walking with Cavemen , hosted by Alec Baldwin , is a look back at all thehominid (that's us!) species of the past 5 million years: who they were,what they were like, and how they died out. Along with being a veryinteresting scientific look at the information we have on these species ,Walking with Cavemen also examines what it is that makes us human. Iwaitedseveral weeks to watch this, and I was not disappointe (www.imdb.com/title/tt0370053/)
I wanted to enjoy the Walking With Cavemen series and there weremoments that were informative and sufficiently awe inspiring. Theatmosphere of a serious look at human evolution was severelycompromised, however, by the completely ridiculous insertion of thepresenter, Robert Winston, into the action, as if he was traveling backin time to witness our ancestors first hand. Not only does RobertWinston have a silly looking mustache and an annoying manner, but wehave to watch him racing about the prehistoric world in a variety ofvehicles, as if he was the star of an action movie. In severalhilarious moments, we even see Winston exchanging meaningful glanceswith our ape-like ancestors. By the time I saw Winston hovering aboveAfrica, observing our ancestors from a hot air balloon, I was aboutready to chuck the DVD out of the window in despair (us.imdb.com/title/tt0370053/)
Whatever the producers have managed to do to it, "Cavemen" is still going to be a 24-minute sitcom based on a 30-second sitcom : the series of caveman commercials produced for an insurance company (one that assures potential customers of low rates even though it obviously spends a fortune on TV advertising). The running joke - or perhaps walking joke - was that cavemen still dwell among us and resent being typecast as simple-minded primitives with room-temperature IQs (www.washingtonpost.com....01897.html)
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