Dinosaurus!

1960
4.9| 1h25m| en
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After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population.

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Also starring Ward Ramsey

Also starring Paul Lukather

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ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Helio I feel denied that I did not get to see this film as a kid but I guess it did not make it to our town's Saturday matinee offering. I remember seeing the Alamo, Hatari, Lawrence of Arabia and Eighty Days Around the World in Grade I. Heck I even remembering seeing 20,000 Leagues at the Drive-In when I was three. So I am sure I would have recalled this "classic". Although I doubt I would have been impressed with the made up dinosaurs - the brontosaurus is more convincing than the T-Rex but where is the Triceratops?I can even explain how a Jurasic creature can be found with a Cretacaous critter - they were just entombed at different times by the same process. The Neanderthal fellow not so much although he is pretty convincing. The scene with the mirror is great.Now I don't recall what I saw last month never mind last year (the hard drive is full). That is why IMDB is helpful - if I gave it a rating then I saw it. But I can rewatch it again - reruns don't bother me anymore.
O2D This movie was totally ridiculous yet somehow still good. For reasons never explained, people are blowing up the shoreline of a island that never gets named.Then a woman(who we later find out is the girlfriend of the foreman) comes into the harbor in a row boat. She was out in the ocean in this tiny thing "getting food" and decided to just sail right into the blasting zone. There's lots of white people failing miserably at attempting Hispanic accents, one even sounds french. The real question is why would Pacific islanders have Hispanic accents? So anyway, the blasting uncovers two perfectly preserved dinosaurs. Somehow a brontosaurus and a T-Rex died right next to each other and never decayed. So they drag the dinosaurs onto the beach, ask the town drunk to watch them, and then leave. Oh did i mention the island has an "island manager" and he's evil? And he's not even really in charge, the island governor is but he's away. And of course the manager has some little boy who is not his son that he is raising. The manager finds a caveman because that makes perfect sense.Then a lightning bolt splits in two and hits both dinosaurs and they come back to life. Somehow the caveman comes to life and then we are forced to watch him figure out the hi-tech life of a 1950's third world country, for a long time. Luckily the caveman knows all about dinosaurs and can ride them, probably because they didn't exist at the same time. The story makes no sense(What is the Dinosaurus??) but it's not terrible. Give it a shot.
bkoganbing How well I remember this film Dinosaurus from seeing it in the theaters way back when I was 13 years old. I liked the special effects in creating the two dinosaurs and the climax is a very exciting one still. Of course now I can spot some of the ludicrousness of the story.The location is a small Caribbean Island where a group of construction workers are dredging a harbor to make it a deep water port. Their dynamiting has unleashed a cold underground river and two dinosaurs, a tyrannosaurus and a brontosaurus are released from being cryogenically frozen for a million years or so. As is true in a flock of other science fiction films they thaw out and lightning strikes them and they come alive like Frankenstein's monster.Of course they're kind of hungry and the brontosaurus has a nice tropical rain forest to feast on. But T-Rex is a flesh eater and there's lots of people flesh around as well.Unknown to everyone else a caveman also was washed ashore and he thawed out as well. He was found by Fred Engelberg who has to be one of the stupidest villains ever on record. In the absence of the governor he's in charge. I'm assuming the island is an American possession, the rest of the natives have Spanish accents both white and black, but Engelberg for reasons I can't figure out has a French accent. He wants his caveman to make a profit off of and even with a raging T-Rex around he's going to capture that caveman. As the natives of the island would say, Que Pendejo.The climax involves the lead actor and construction boss Ward Ramsey dueling with Tyrannosaurus using a steam shovel as a weapon. That has stuck with me since childhood and it's very excitingly staged.Dinosaurus is still a suspenseful and exciting science fiction film to watch with its no name cast and nice special effects for their time.
Michael Hall Honestly, 4.4/10?!? It wasn't that bad! I haven't seen this film in awhile and I decided to watch in again today.Its a pretty good film for its time.Sure, the acting is a little cheesy, but its a great movie! Ahh, yes, IMDb's plot for the movie. ''...After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population. Freed from his watery tomb, as well, is a very friendly Neanderthal man who proceeds to befriend a local orphan boy. The boy, Neanderthal and irritated dinosaur make for an interesting dramatic climax.'' Couldn't explain the plot any better.The Neanderthal man who has also come back along with the dinosaurs, is actually a caveman! He can give you a good laugh every once in awhile.He is just hilarious.This is an awesome movie to pop in the VCR and watch on a Saturday night.You should really check it out if you're a into dinosaurs, like I am.10/10!