Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Luecarou What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.

O2D This movie is a mess.A group of people manage to launch an escape pod from a large space ship that is in danger.The larger ship is then vaporized and the escape pod crash lands on a nearby planet.Sounds like a good set up but it goes horribly wrong.For some reason they have chosen to have about 15 characters in this thing but that's about 10 too many.In the escape pod they do a scene where the guy in charge video talks with all of them and it's just plain silly.It seems like a joke but sadly it's them introducing more than a dozen extremely boring characters.Of course they do kill off a few of them(it literally takes them an hour to figure out to stop going places alone),but it's still too many characters.At least half of the time on the new planet is spent pretending to climb a rocky hill side and it looks suspiciously like the American south west.And the entire time they keep talking about who works for who and who is in charge.They never gave any back story but constantly expect us to understand all this babble about things that were never explained.The dialogue is terrible,the acting is worse and the special effects are a joke.Did I mention that there are dinosaurs on the new planet?No? It doesn't even matter.The best part of the movie is when a woman sees a big spider and just lays down to let it attack her.Why are there always giant spiders near dinosaurs? This movie is terrible but I can't force myself to give it 1 star.

nuoipter termer Planet of Dinosaurs is a wonderful movie. It opens with dramatic scary music and images of dinosaurs and a spider. These people in a gigantic spaceship have some disaster in space. Part of the spaceship explodes or something. They crash land on an Earth-like planet in a lake or something. They get out of the ship and it sinks. This is like Planet of the Apes, and with the name Planet of Dinosaurs, it is obvious that this is imitating Planet of the Apes. They discover that there are dinosaurs and other animals on the planet. Some are killed by them and they kill a tyrannosaurus which had killed some of them, making them much safer. I think the idea of the movie is that the planet had life come about on it millions of years later than on Earth and was in the dinosaur stage of evolution. But it's very unlikely that humans would ever land on a planet like that because evolution doesn't have a way it always goes. Life isn't programmed to evolve the way it did on Earth. The monster special effects in the movie are probably the best of all the dinosaur movies before Jurassic Park.

David Michael O'Rorey (retromaster2000) I would have to say the acting on this film is some of the worst I have seen not including James Withworth he did a great job. The others were nobody's hired cause of the low-budget production. Almost similar to "The Crater Lake Monster" from '77 which most reviewers on here gave bad comments cause of the acting & low-budget production values. Special effects buffs on here most like me usually say the only thing that saved the film was the remarkable Stop-Motion Effects done by the great David Allen. This film is very much like that. I honestly have to say Crater Lake had better acting. This film was Directed by James K. Shea. I thought he did a great job at pulling it all together with the budget & staying in the budget rang considering him having the effects used being done through the painstaking Stop-Motion Animation Techniques conceived by Willis O'Brien & Ray Harryhausen. Which all guys who worked on this film were inspired by both men & pay homages to them in their little film. 90% of the animation sequences in the film were done by Doug Beswick yes for u Special Effects buffs, the same guy who helped Rick Baker create the costume for the 1972 Sci-Fi Cult Classic "Octaman". Which I would wish would turn up on DVD someday soon, I love that film too. I had no idea Doug was such a great animator I mean the dino fighting sequences are amazing in the film. Some of the best I have seen better then Willis O'Brien & his counterpart Pete Peterson. I also think they rival Ray Harryhausen's work as well as David Allen & Jim Danforth. I think his animation was as good as their stuff. Jim Aupperle also did some nice sequences he did a tad bit of Doug's T-Rex & Stegasaurus battle. Jim's spotlight though was the horned dinosaur sequence with that guy running across the cliff & the dinosaur impaling him with it's horn, in the chest. Steve Czerkas did a great job at building the miniatures & models he also did a bit of animation I can't recall which sequence he did though. The film also won the Saturn Award from The Academy Of Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Films because of the brilliant Stop-Motion Effects. For special effects buffs this film is great to others though not so great I give it an 8 though cause of the animation effects.

Woodyanders I first saw and fell in love with this immensely enjoyable low-budget science fiction treat on some Saturday afternoon creature feature show. It tells the story of a motley spaceship crew who find themselves stranded on a strange and unknown planet populated by hostile and hungry dinosaurs. The intrepid bunch soon learn that they must fight back against the dinosaurs or else they will all perish. Director James K. Shea brings a winning blend of flair and energy to the fun premise; he maintains a snappy pace throughout and stages the dinosaur attack scenes with considerable vigor. The acting is pretty hit or miss, with top thespic honors going to the hulking James Whitworth (Papa Jupitor in the original "The Hills Have Eyes") as the tough take-charge Jim. Henning Schellerup's cinematography gives the picture a fairly polished look. The wonky synthesizer score by Kelly Lammers and John O'Verlin likewise does the trick. The characters are nicely drawn and engaging. But it's the impressively ambitious special effects that really add a great deal to the movie's funky charm and effectiveness: The stop-motion animation dinosaurs are totally cool, plus Jim Danforth supplies a few neat matte paintings. Although admittedly modest and rough around the edges, this film overall still makes the grade as a very lively and entertaining romp.