Dinosaurus!

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Audience Member I've always wondered if the fight between the steam shovel and the T-Rex in the film's climax influenced James Cameron when he filmed the climactic battle between Ripley in the loader and the Queen alien. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/24/24 Full Review Audience Member A classic in it's own curious way. Certainly, one that doesn't nearly get enough love. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. Writers: Jack H. Harris (original idea), Dan E. Weisburd Stars: Ward Ramsey, Paul Lukather, Kristina Hanson-------- Dinosaurus! comes from producer Jack H. Harris and director Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. Harris and Irvin S. Yeaworth had previously collaborated on the quintessential 1950s B-budget monster movie The Blob (1958) and had then gone onto make the quite good phantom mad scientist effort The 4D Man (1959). Dinosaurus! would be their third and final collaboration together. Dinosaurus! came on the tail end of the 1950s cycle of revived dinosaur films that began with The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953). Hurricane pulls up perfectly preserved dinosaur bodies from the ocean floor; Tyrannosaur and Brontosaurus, and a caveman. Lightning strikes, dinosaurs come to lift and terrorize bad actors. Caveman comes to life also, befriends kid, and ends up riding the brontosaurus. Dinosaurus! has a fairly awful reputation but contrarily I rather liked it. The special effects come from Tim Baar, Wah Chang and Gene Warren. The dinosaurs (there's only two ) are of the stop motion variety and you won't ever mistake them as being done by legendary effects man Ray Harryhausen. The juvenile nature of the film, along with some naff neanderthal-based comedy, make it just a little too cloying at times, but as a fan of dinosaur movies in general, and especially those that make use of stop motion animation, I couldn't help but be entertained. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review william o for that era not bad.the kid was pretty lame though Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Another good b movie presented by svengoolie. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I have to be honest here and say that I don't remember a whole lot about Dinosaurus because it was so dull, so my memory of it is very dim. I remember the beginning mostly and I think I tuned out for the rest. I remember the character of Dumpy and the annoying kid running around, and that they found a prehistoric monster in the ocean that, of course, came to life. That's about it. I hate to give movies like this such low marks because of the work that went into them, particularly with the stop-motion puppets, but it's a tedious bore. There's nothing that spectacular or engaging about it. I'm sure it thrilled people in 1960 when it was released, but I just couldn't get through it properly. So I'd just say that it's a boring film, and one that even a comedy troupe like Rifftrax can't even make enjoyable. It's definitely not the best of the genre or anything like that, that's for sure. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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