Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Myron Clemons
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Kimball
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
patrick-green
I saw this movie late one night on the sixth (french) channel. Most of it was awful but there were still a few redeeming qualities to it. The actors were rather pathetic, typical dino fodder I'd say and all they did was swear and moan about the ugly lizards attacking them. But they were PROFESSIONAL dino fodder actors. Indeed, they were very entertaining when getting dismembered and chomped by the dinosaurs. The gory scenes were not bad either. The dinos, on the other hand looked cheap and stiff, for they were puppets!! Yes, puppets, my friends, shown in full view struggling on their stiff, fat legs to get at the actors. Luckily for them there is still the ambushing tactic, ideal when in an underground mining/scientific/whatsitsname facility. Some elements of the plot reminded me vaguely of Aliens though... Things I learned from this movie: -Plastic mattresses are quite common in underground whatitsname facilities, they are a life saving device for crumby actors falling from ludicrous heights. -We humans are so dumb we have forgotten what to do when attacked by a shuffling, fat velociraptor, which is, to run like hell or hide. -Cloned velociraptors and tyrannosaurs look nothing like their prehistoric ancestors who were lithe, mighty and sleek-looking. Clones are fat, stiff and fake-looking. -A tyrannosaur cannot smash through an elevator door, especially when this one is made of metal mesh. -Dinos are extremely annoyed by Wagner's music, especially Flight of the Walkiry. -Dinos can unrig a booby trap better than any old soldier. -A man being shaken around in a T-rex's maw looks a lot like a plastic dummy.
scooterinsure
Evidently someone involved in this production has created multiple email accounts to vault the Vote scoring up to 3.6/10. Believe me: This movie rates a 1. Or a fraction.I have a Love/Hate thing going with this type of movie. On the Hate side movies such as Carnosaur 2 are Z-quality: they pillage clichés without conscience; the special effects don't fool a four-year old; the filming set is often an "underground facility" or "molded plastic cave" to conceal a lack of "site location" budget; the actors are no-names except for one or two spiraling has-beens fresh off the dinner theater circuit; and the plots are ridiculous retreads or riffs conjured on the set.On the Love side: Such movies are unabashedly pure in their lack of production values, star power, and talent. They are beautiful things to watch and their badness should be admired. An ultra-bad movie like Carnosaur 2 is a lot of fun and hilarious if you have a couple of minutes during channel surfing or if you're stoned at 2 am or having a party.Little known fact: The special effects were pioneered in the groundbreaking Barney the Purple Dinosaur series. If you look reeeeeeally close...OK, even if you look from a distance...you can see the rubber Carnosaur suits squish up from the guys inside or the obvious camera angle placement to make the 2 foot tall model the size of a forklift...or the rubber toes bending in awkward boneless ways...or you name it.God bless the Sci-Fi Channel for breathing life into these silly, ultra-low budget horror and sci-fi flicks. Long live the B-movie!
willywants
Plot: Carnosaur II is not a sequel to Carnosaur, it just follows the same principle - humans running away from dinosaurs. Out in the Nevada desert ("80 miles in all directions") is a secret facility with lots of subbasements. When a computer team is called in to repair the place and find out what happened to the crew, chaos reigns. The team starts to get eaten one by one by a group of very intelligent dinosaurs, often smarter than the humans. The two women in the group have the messiest deaths (one like Aliens, the other is a piece-by-piece meal). A boy and one member of the team manage to get out, only to find a single T-rex after them. The facility was sitting on a uranium mine, so with some dynamite the two blow it up and escape on an Evac helicopter.DIRECTING: 4/10- Okay...nothing to be amazed over but a few nice shots and at least a little coherency.WRITING: 3/10- Pretty bad. Lots of people yelling "We got to get out of here" and "We're trapped".ACTING: 6/10- The acting, especially from lead role John Savage, is pretty good for a indie monster film.GORE: 6/10- A severed head, severed limbs, some light blood here and there, a chewed off arm. The kill scenes are graphic and bloody, most are shown on-screen.MONSTERS: A Carnosaur and a group of raptors.SPECIAL EFFECTS: 4/10- The monsters look a little rubbery, but the gore is on the money. The Helictopter crash scene is one of the worst since "The crawlers".MUSIC: 3/10- A few forgetable military-esque tunes. Nothing to write home about.Final verdict- "Carnosaur 2" is a lame monster movie. Good gore, but every thing else is forgetable and dull. It's like a low-budget version of "Alien", except put rubbery raptors in place of bizzare creatures. My rating for "Carnosaur 2"- 3.5-10. Not worth watching.
duce122
Carnosaur 2 (1995) D: Louis Morneau. John Savage, Cliff De Young, Don Stroud, Rick Dean, Ryan Thomas Johnson, Neith Hunter, Arabella Holzborg, Guy Boyd. Simply one of the worst films ever made, this cheap non-sequel to the Jurassic Park rip-off CARNOSAUR contains some of the worst dialogue ever uttered in a film, as well as another collection of cliched characters and scenes. This time, a top secret operations team of some kind enters a top-secret military installation to search for a missing crew. But surprise! They get trapped and battle against hungry, vicious, man-eating dinosaurs! They might as well have just called the film `2,' for there are about 2-minutes worth of dinosaurs in the entire film. What we get instead is a bunch of lousy acting and incredibly inept special effects when the dinosaurs actually do appear (Boy, do they look fake!). Laughably bad. RATING: 2 out of 10. Rated R for graphic violence and gore, grisly images, and profanity.
