Protraph
Lack of good storyline.
Noutions
Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Pacionsbo
Absolutely Fantastic
Breumaster
This is one of the worst „scifi"-movies i've ever seen. Some hippies crash-land on a distant planet, trying to overcome their own stupidity with dumb actions. While this happens, the score is old synthesizer sound, which miserably fails to create a better atmosphere. The story is dumb as hell, most time it's stuffed with boring and dull dialogues. If the „movie" would have taken itself not so serious, it would be better. They could have done a nice comedy of this movie, if they had used better actors and dialogues. But this way it's even not inadvertently funny. When the movie tries to be funny, it's not funny at all. If you see an animal, it mostly looks fake at the first sight. The only nice animal was a spider at the size of a human head. That was the best animal animation in the whole movie. It lasts about half a minute. But over the whole time of the movie, there are conversations, that mostly make no sense. I hate that! The actors can't act. And the director? I wonder, if he was on weed. Sorry, but this movie is to worse to hate, so i just remember the spider scene to not hate it.Greetings. :)
wbswetnam
Planet of Dinosaurs is a very low-budget space sci-fi movie from the late 1970s, featuring absolutely no-name actors, stop motion dinosaurs and awful dialogue. These elements, combined with the "music" provided by a cheap Casio keyboard (it sounds a lot like the music in Pod People, an equally dismal sci-fi movie from the early 1980s), mean that it is in solid B movie territory! But it is still fun, in a weird sort of way. It definitely has that 70s feel to it! Nearly all the male actors sport thick moustaches and open shirts, and the ladies look like they're ready for the disco floor, too. Pamela Bottaro, who plays Nyla, is particularly fetching, especially wearing that sexy halter top in the last 30 seconds of the movie... wow!
geminiredblue
Believe it or not, when I was kid, I owned a videotape of this one. Growing up, I was obsessed with dinosaurs. Read every book my tiny eyes could take in. Saw all the LAND BEFORE TIME movies. So naturally, my parents got this for me. At the time, I liked it. I was nowhere near the film-savvy guy I am now. Recently, RiffTrax came out with this one. The comments, provided by the MST3K veterans, shine with comedic gold! Revisiting the PLANET OF DINOSAURS, I now see how crappy it actually is. Cinematography is virtually nonexistent. Sometimes all the actors would be out of focus and/or out of frame. None of them can act to save their lives! A lot of the cast are sporting beards and/or mustaches (and that includes a few of the women.) Most of the time, they're either standing around awkwardly boring each other to death in conversation or walking around pointlessly in what looks like the same location. All but bare-chested Chuck wear form-fitting spandex jump suits. Yes, we're treated to gratuitous heinie shots also. And it's disturbing that a lot of the men have no visible panty lines. What? When the filmmakers place an actor ass-first towards the camera, what else am I supposed to look at?! Once in a while, a cool stop-motion dinosaur (or in one case arachnid) will thunder onto screen to terrorize and/or kill a character. But sadly they're not on-screen long enough! The rest of the time, we watch as the cast wanders around aimlessly and spouts tedious dialogue. Every so often, they'll construct something out of sticks that they claim is impenetrable, and then a large T-rex will come by and crush it all. Until at the end, of course, when the T-rex is downed by the same thing! Music is made up almost entirely of digital blips and whoops and other sounds I can't describe. It will quickly annoy, as you might imagine. Steer clear of this film at all costs, unless it's with RiffTrax or you've invited over your funniest pals. In which case, I raise my beer to you and let out a mighty roar!!!
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.
