Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

Micransix Crappy film

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

MisterWhiplash What can I say except that I'm a sucker for a cute dinosaur puppet that is supposed to strike fear into the hearts of *adult* audiences watching this(?) Through a series of unlikely but, of course, since it's a Corman-produced cash-in on Jurassic Park (which had the wherewithal to be released a month *before* that movie came out) we have to buy into it events, a scientist who has been tasked with looking into gene experiments involving chickens somehow (ahem, fixes tie) hatches a plan to... capture a whole lot of local women, inseminate them, and one thing will lead to another through some mumbo jumbo involving gene changes and development and the women will "birth" eggs that have tiny dinosaurs that will rid take back the planet. Simple, right?Why is the dinosaur so cute? It's really about the scale of it, and how Corman's director, Adam Simon, has so little to work with and has to try to make the best of it. According to the IMDb trivia, they didn't have enough money to make a good giant robotic dinosaur (only for a few shots which, I assume, are near the end for that thrilling fight with the construction crane machine), so they mostly used a smaller model and even hand puppets. This is charmingly low- budget, though it does, here and there, try to be a real movie with a plot, which is really silly and at times nonsensical; the main male character starts off as a drunk who tries to ward off protesters trying to stop construction of... something, I don't remember now, and then halfway through the movie he becomes the noble hero who will save everyone from the dinosaurs with the use of his construction cranes.There are some stretches where we're watching dull scenes where the military are trying to figure out what to do - Ned Bellamy, who one might remember from Shawshank Redemption, is the main guy leading that charge which, eventually, will be like scenes from The Crazies on steroids - but when it gets back to the dinosaurs, or Diane Ladd who is acting as if she is in a legitimate movie (that is until near the end which... wow, just, that's amazing), it's a wonderful piece of schlock, full of bloody scenes of carnage that, with a little creative editing, come close to being real action set pieces, and it even goes for a dark ending that whether the movie fully earns it or not it shows chutzpah in not going for the predictable way out. I don't know whether or not Siskel was being tongue-in-cheek with his sincere 'Thumbs up' (really, how many Corman movies, much less those released during the Concorde years, did he praise like that so it could get on the damn box cover), but I know I was laughing nearly until tears during any scene with a dinosaur in it.It's also apparently based on a book which I'd have to assume makes Crichton look like HG Wells.

maxmoser3 In the midst of Jurassic Park being released in the summer of 1993 there were multiple cash grabs on the run from Jurassic Park's success from Congo to Godzilla you name it then just a few weeks prior in May of 1993 Carnosaur was released to a very small limited release, and then was released on home video later that year. Carnosaur is one of those films that feels unconnected by that I mean there are a lot of things that needed to be fixed specifically the plot. The plot feels as if there are two things going on once first is this dinosaur going nuts around this small town, and then there is stuff involving the government wanting to go after every citizen and the main antagonist is wanting to impregnate women with dinosaurs. Another downside of the film is that the humans aren't really that great besides Diane Ladd(the antagonist) and the supposed protagonist played by Raphael Sabarge who are amusing to watch on camera. The big plus of the film is how good the dinosaurs look considering the million dollar budget they had, and the kills are the best parts of the film. But overall Carnosaur is a forgettable bland creature feature that fails trying to be Jurassic Park or a fun creature feature.

geminiredblue Okay, okay, what do you get when you combine THE CRAZIES, THE THING, ALIEN, and JURASSIC PARK? Why a low budget rip-off of JURASSIC PARK, of course! The storyline is truly bizarre (again a mish-mash of the various titles I mentioned above), but I'll attempt to get it right: In a desert location, weird genetic experiments are going on at a top-secret facility. Scientists are making dinosaurs. Why, it's never made clear. Through a few mishaps, the dinosaurs escape and wreak havoc on the local, edible, population. As if that weren't bad enough, people are coming down with a strange disease that causes dinosaurs to hatch inside them(?!) Like I said, nonsensical. But FUN, nonetheless. So long as you don't go into this expecting Oscar-worthy performances. The special dinosaur FX are pretty eye-catching for such a low budget flick. For mild entertainment, you could do far, far worse. Followed by at least two sequels.

DirectionWritten Beware of Carnosaur! The puppet dinosaur that is obviously and painfully fake! This is easily one of the worst movies ever made. The special effects are horrible, the story is beyond dumb, and it is breathlessly boring. Note that this movie was released to theaters a few weeks before Jurassic Park was. But what really makes me mad about that is because this movie is just a pathetic and terrible rip-off of Jurassic Park that completely fails to offer anything exciting or original, since it basically just steals Jurassic Parks idea but changes it up a little bit. Stay away from this movie. If you watch it, it will ruin your whole day.