Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Wuchak Released in 1970 and directed by Val Guest, "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" is a prehistoric adventure/fantasy starring Victoria Vetri as a blond cavebabe who survives her tribe's sacrificial ritual to their sun god. She then tries to join another tribe where she attracts the attention of one of the dudes (Robin Hawdon) and the jealousy of one of the brunette babes (Imogen Hassall).Wow, this flick is painfully bad. I was seriously tempted to fast-forward through the second half. This was surprising because it's basically the follow-up to Hammer's most successful film, 1966's "One Million Years BC." Unfortnately, it's nowhere the same quality. Things go wrong right away when the camera switches from excellent Canary Island locations to an obvious indoor set when it focuses on close-ups of the tribe on top of a hill. Worse, the story is dull and there's WAY too much cave-babbling, e.g. "Akita, AKITA!" The stop-motion F/X work is good, but there isn't as much as in the former film, like the great T-rex versus triceratops and the allosaurus sequences. While I like the friendly baby dino and Hassall is significantly hotter than the overrated Vetri, neither makes up for the movie's mortal flaws.The film runs 96 minutes and was shot in the Canary Islands and England (sets).GRADE: D

Clay Loomis I saw this was coming up on TV this morning and hit IMDb to check it out first. Woe to me. I thought I'd give it a try anyway. I like a good fantasy movie. Harry Potter and a bunch of witches living among us- sure. But this movie started right off by throwing science out the window.Before we even got to the point where humans lived alongside dinosaurs (a la The Flintstones), the narrator introduced us to the first scene by telling us that "this was a time before the moon even existed". The moon existed BILLIONS of years before even the simplest form of life existed on this planet, much less dinosaurs or mammals. I might have let this go for a silent era movie from the 1920's, but this was made in the late 1960's.Then we are introduced to the primitive inhabitants of earth, with their salon hair and waxed bodies. Things kind of went along that way for the length of the film. Pretty women bouncing to and fro. Not much else going on here.Not for historians, to be sure, but at least I didn't see anyone wearing a watch.

georgegryak This is one of my all-time favorite schlock films. The plot is flimsy, the babes are hot, the historical aspect is all wrong, and it is in color (a rarity for a Hammer film) When I first saw this film on late night cable, it was the uncut version. In the uncut version, Tara (played by Robin Hawdon) fell down on his back in one scene, his loin cloth flipped up, and out popped his family jewels in their entirety for all to see! I have the DVD and this scene was deleted (darn it he was quite the lad!) Even though the scene lasted a few seconds, you still got a good look under his "kilt." And besides, he was the only male actor in that film that had a little tuft of pubes poking out of the top of his loin cloth. I guess he was the hunka-hunka of the day. Sanna is gorgeous and is the object of Tara's eye since she wondered into caveman camp. The language is made up of gibberish. For days, we were going around the apartment after watching this film yelling "AKEETA! AKEETA!" which seems to be the primary word in the film next to Neecro. I don't want to tell more of the plot, get the DVD on Amazon or EBay. Too bad it isn't the uncut version where you can see all the flubs including the cables that held up the pterodactyl's legs as he snatched Tara and took him to the nest.

jerekra For a movie titled "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" the focus is not on the dinosaurs. The focus is on the cavemen and cavewomen who lived alongside the dinosaurs (though not entirely accurate historically at least it is an interesting thought).The basic storyline is that this evil group of cavemen sacrifice one blonde girl to appease their god. One blonde named Sanna, a really hot one played by Victoria Vetri, manages to escape and is picked up by another caveman group that has never seen blondes before (what they were missing). Soon the group blames this new blonde for storms and the sun beginning to form. Apparently this movie takes place before the sun was around, another aspect of this film not entirely true. So Sanna gets adopted by a dinosaur. Later storms come that create the moon as well.This movie has an odd plot completely. None of it is remotely true in real life. Dinosaurs did not live with people and people were not around before the moon was. But what this movie lacks in plot believability it makes up for in scenery.The dinosaurs look pretty good in this film. Strangely enough there are not many true dinosaurs in this film. Pleisiasaurus and Pterodactyl are in it and neither are a dinosaur. A Chasmosaurus is in it as well as some lumbering Iguanadon that adopts Sanna. It is somewhat surprising that there is no predatory dinosaur in it. Apparently the director said that predatory dinosaurs feet were weird and they looked homosexual. Stupid if you ask me I could not find that dumber reasoning nor more stupid reasoning than you will find out there.Also looking good in this film are the cavegirls. Especially Victoria Vetri. Raquel Welch gets most of the attention as the hottest cave girl ever but I always liked Vetri more. Maybe it is because she is from playboy. But she does get to show off a lot in that tight bikini and looks amazing. This movie is worth watching just for her.So a unique film. Overall it is probably not as good as 1000000 years B.C. but I think that Victoria Vetri is better than Raquel Welch. WOrth watching for Vetri, but the lack of dinosaurs and the absurd plot keep it back.