Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Michael_Elliott When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)** 1/2 (out of 4) Dinosaurs and rival tribes are all trying to live together during a time when there are still people being sacrificed to the sun gods. Sanna (Victoria Vetri) gets swept away during a violent storm and soon finds herself with another tribe where she falls in love with Tara (Robin Hawdon). Their relationship is faced with problems from both sides as there are battles against each other as well as the dinosaurs that stalk them.After the success of ONE MILLION YEARS B.C., Hammer got this film into production and the end result is a mildly entertaining movie as long as you don't take it too serious. I've read some reviews that did take this film way too serious and they started to nitpick just about everything in the picture. Yes, you can bring up various logical issues as well as other issues dealing with the "cave people" but this wasn't meant to be a Stanley Kubrick picture. This here was a film meant to appeal to kids and young adults on weekends and on that level it works.It was a rather interesting choice to have no English dialogue spoken. The people are given their own dialogue, which the viewer can never really make any sense out of but I actually thought this ended up working quite well as it perfectly put you in the setting. I also that director-writer Val Guest did a pretty good job at holding your attention for the most part, although I will say the 99-minute running time does start to drag towards the end. The music score was nice and the cinematography was actually better than I expected.The reason people went to see WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH was for the special effects and the women. The stop=motion effects were pretty good for the most part and there's no doubt that the creatures themselves were quite good and entertaining. I really liked the giant crab at the end of the picture but most of the dinosaur attacks were good. As far as the women goes, yeah, there were several beauties wearing very little clothes and the uncut version even got some nudity in. How the large breasted women were able to stay in these skimpy outfits was quite impressive.Again, as long as you don't take this film too serious it works just fine as a "B" movie.

thekarmicnomad To begin with I admit that if this film wasn't full of beautiful, bronzed, oiled, busty women clad in fur skin bikinis it would have scored much lower.All dialogue is in a made up prehistoric language. This is very ambitious and puts a lot of weight on the director and actors. It works pretty well but there is a good reason why 99.9% of movies have an active narrative. Listening to cave people (as gorgeous as they are) shouting makes of IKEA furniture at each other gets a bit dull and forces the story to be over simplistic.The film gets boring after the novelty of the cave girls and men wear off.Possibly ahead of its time but feels a bit dated now. The stop frame animation still stands up against modern cgi but the interaction between cave person and plasticine dinosaurs is a bit clumsy.A great romp for 90 odd minutes.

unedu-141 Saw this last night on the box. It was a bit cheesy - epitomised by having people coexisting with dinosaurs in the first place, but despite that it was fun and fast moving. I never knew what was going to happen next. My enjoyment was partly from the story, partly from the pure unadulterated nonsense which the film was as a whole. Watch out for the sea and sky changing from calm to raging storm in an instant; for Sanna chastising "her" dinosaur, which hangs its head in shame; the amazing costumes (how do they stay on? why do they wear them at all?); the language which at one point only seems to have one vowel ("a"), and later consists mostly of the word "akita" that means "yes," "no," "come here," "go there," "they went that way", "head them off at the pass," "I could do with a bite to eat," and "I think we are about to be engulfed by a tidal wave."

Neil Welch Hammer's follow-up to One Million Years BC sees it covering similar ground - a caveman soap opera featuring gorgeous, beautifully coiffed cavegirls in stylish fur bikinis vying with each other for the attentions of a series of grubby, unprepossessing cavemen, while assorted animated rubber anachronisms cavort around in the background (and the foreground. And, indeed, the mid-ground).I'm not sure why this movie seems so lack-lustre. Admittedly, it doesn't have Raquel Welch as the sympathetic blonde hottie, but it does have Playboy centrefold Victoria Vetri (who gets her kit off in the uncensored version if you're in the market for that sort of thing)(and I am), not to mention the gloriously pneumatic (and ultimately tragic) Imogen Hassall filling the Martine Beswick role of nasty brunette crumpet.Admittedly it doesn't have Ray Harryhausen animating the critters, but it does have Jim Danforth whose animation is silky smooth and incredibly naturalistic.Admittedly it doesn't have a climactic earthquake, but it does have a tidal wave, preceded by the enormously entertaining spectacle of feverish raft-building and Patrick Allen (subbing for Robert Brown) trying to hold a tsunami back by sheer force of personality with a notable lack of success.Admittedly it doesn't have John Richardson's rugged good looks hidden behind a mountain of hair, but it does have Robin Hawdon making a valiant attempt to be a prehistoric feminist in relatively clean-shaven fashion.I've decided - it's just as good! Bring me the DVD and bring it now! Ahot!