Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

lemon_magic I'm not arguing that the stranded members of a starship wouldn't whine a lot, mope around, stagger from locale to locale, drop their laser guns into swamps, and get picked off by the local fauna. I'm just arguing that portraying the story of such a crew doesn't make for a very involving movie.This isn't bad in the way an Ed Wood Jr film is bad, and it's not bad in the way that a substandard Corman film is bad - if fact it's not as interesting as either of those two genres. In fact, it's not bad in the way a Crown International Picture film is bad (slick on the surface, duller than dirt underneath).It's just cheesy and half-baked, as though they had a germ of an idea for a story, but had no idea how to tell it.In its favor, the movie does feature a fairly attractive cast (in a 70's spandex kind of way), and some of the stop motion dinosaurs look pretty good (with the exception of the triceratops, which runs as though its back half belongs to a wind up toy). And the screen play does have kind of a half-baked character arc for the captain, who starts out weak and indecisive and (thanks to the example of the Bluto-ish member of the crew) ends up a much stronger and surer version of himself.Against? Well, pretty much everything else. Worst of all, the sound track is a synthesizer track full of farts and bleats and comedy musical stings, but comedy requires better timing and rhythm than these guys can deliver, so it falls flat and reminds you how not-funny the supposed comedy moments are.I imagine viewers who first saw this when they were young and far less critical might be fond of this movie. But this artifact of the 70's embodies most of what was wrong with pop culture for that decade.

jerekra Planet of the Dinosaurs is a science fiction masterpiece.A group of space traveling humans are in their space ship when they realize that it is about to crash. So they land on a planet before their space ship crashes, landing it in the water but the ship sinks down before they can save it. They then begin to travel across the planet in hopes of making a signal that will allow them to be rescued. Along the way they find out that there are dinosaurs on the planet, in particular a bloodthirsty Tyrannosaurus. So the struggle for survival on this planet soon becomes more of an issue than trying to escape from the planet.This is a great plot for a science fiction film. Space travelers find themselves stranded on a planet that is inhabited by Dinosaurs. Brilliant!! Acting is good too, there is a good bond between the characters in this film. I always liked survival type films and this film is one of those.The dinosaurs look really good in this film. They really did a good job making the dinosaurs look real. The Tyrannosaurus is the main focus dinosaur in this film and is a great bad guy dinosaur. Other dinosaurs appearing include Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus, Strithiumimus, Styracosaurus, and a dinosaur that closely resembles the Rhedosaurus from "The Beast From 20000 Fathoms".The only complaint I have has to do with a few illogical parts, nothing too bad. There is one part where the Tyrannosaurus eats a Brontosaurus and then a few minutes later eats a Stegosaurus. I mean, there is no way that he could possibly be hungry. They just wanted to portray it as a terrifying monster and it is not entirely accurate. But it is a movie so it does not have to be realistic.There is a lot of great action in this film. Both between humans and dinosaurs as well as Dinosaurs against Dinosaurs. This movie will keep you entertained.Great dinosaur film, really underrated one. Highly recommend it.

zoe-butler51 I thought I'd seen all the old dinosaur films. I thought this would be "Prehistoric Planet" with a different title. I expected dinosaur footage ripped off from other movies. I was pleasantly surprised. It's a new one on me and it's not that bad. I'm especially surprised that the special effects are so good for the standard of the acting and the budget it implies. It was nicely photographed and for its time the effects were comparable to the best in the genre and better than some - such as Dinosaurus. It looks as though all the budget went on stop motion animation - which is expensive - and the actors were dragged in off the street and paid in jelly beans or something. The story isn't bad. That's largely because it's kept simple. I was was also surprised that so many of the characters got eaten. It helped make it suspenseful not knowing who would survive. It was slightly predictable that the more obnoxious guy would come to a sticky end but other deaths were more shocking. Incidentally, the film was rather sexist. Generally the women screwed up and died because they were silly and girlie and clearly not capable of looking after themselves. The assumption was that women were not leadership material. The Alien movies laid that one to rest. The dinosaurs were so recognisable that I was expecting a corny denouement where they realised they were back on earth only through a time warp and millions of years in the past. Maybe they were. I'd like to think so. If so it's good that the writer and director left it for the audience to work that out. It would have been cleverer though if the last shot had somehow let us in on this while keeping the cast in the dark. Maybe the writer just wasn't that imaginative. I enjoyed how the sophisticated officers and scientists gradually devolved into cave people and then managed to climb back to civilisation. Satisfying but not particularly thrilling. Still worth a look if you like this genre.

TheUnknown837-1 A spaceship in some unspecified future where human beings are equipped for space travel and have laser guns for weapons, crash lands on a strange young planet where dinosaurs are coincidentally also evolved and only on this world, have not gone extinct...yet. The survivors of the crash, roughly ten bland characters wearing blue, white, and yellow suits, fight for survival against the alien prehistoric monsters."Planet of the Dinosaurs" is a peculiar movie. Like I said in my summary above, the stop-motion animated dinosaurs in the film are the only colorful actors. The models are crude, but effectively animated. And they are much more fascinating and intriguing than these characters portrayed by inexperienced actors and speaking lines from a script that must have been written overnight without a single revision. Obviously, most of the budget was put into the dinosaurs, and although there is a fair share of them, there's not nearly enough to save us from our boredom. These human characters are only there to scream, run around, and mutter these poorly-written and verbose speeches about survival. And unfortunately, not nearly enough of them get eaten by the dinosaurs.Overall, "Planet of the Dinosaurs" is not a film I plan on seeing again. Some people will simply love it for being so cheap and so poorly made. Sometimes, I enjoy movies like this. But this particular film is just too long, too boring, and very exhausting on the mind.