Planet of the Dinosaurs
by James K. Shea
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Actor: Charlotte Speer, Forman Shane, James Whitworth, Mary Ann Appleseth, Michael ThayerDirector: James K. Shea
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Good Times Video
DVD Reviews of Planet of the Dinosaurs
DVD Review: This is crap!
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a lame movie. It is bad. It needs the MST3K treatment. Due to an engine malfunction, the crew of a spaceship are forced to eject over a strange prehistoric planet. There they are locked in a life-and-death struggle with enormous dinosaurs. They spend about 75 minutes of walking and it seems to be in circles. It's like they found a small piece of land and it looks like they are always in the same place. Things don't add up, things don't make sense. What's even funnier is the fact the people change sizes compared to the dinos. At one point one of the guys is up to the T-Rex's knee, but when he is eaten, he's like as big as the dinos head. There are several inconsistencies in the movie. This is worse than the infamous "Sidehackers" and that's saying alot. This is a piece of garbage, and it's a pain to sit through. It's like a severe flauging. Actually getting beat with a cat of nine tails is the closet I can describe the experience of watching this movie. I could tell it was going to be a real stinker, but it outstripped my expectations. First off, it's from the late seventies, and you can tell by the costumes, which it appears to be men in rejected star trek suits, wet suits, and one girl who is a hippy, sonny and cher, and well anyway, completed by track shoes. It looks like it was shot on tail ends of every grade of film stock there is, the acting wasn't even community-theater level, and to be honest a third grade play has better acting than this film. The script needed a gazillion more drafts, and the music... oh, the music... that cheap seventies electronic score...it's terrible. It sounds like they took someone else's score and played it backwards. Special effects? Laughable even for that day and age! The "spaceship" looks like a bunch of septic pipes, and the "escape craft's" amazing crash scene uses footage from Planet of the Apes, and when it is sinking it looks like a huge cardboard cut out. There are alot of things wrong with this, and it so qualifies as one of the worse movies ever made!!! Oddly enough, the stop-motion dinosaurs were okay sub Harryhausen, but definitely would have been respectable in the fifties. The worst part is, I can see what the filmmakers were trying to accomplish. They wanted to do a variation of a cliche premise of putting several strong-willed characters into a difficult situation and watch the fireworks fly. Unfortunately, the lame script was so repetitive that every argument sounded like deja vu. I mean they repeat each conversation over and over and over and over. Goodness. As you can see, my reivew is all mismatched, but that's because I'm so confused and can't really find any redeeming qualities. It sux!!!
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