BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Julian R. White I mean yeah, that's probably the first time I've ever seen one of the monster movies I've watched get a rating less than 2.0. But you know, I can't entirely say that it's undeserved. Let me ask you, since when did the Tyrannosaurus Rex walk on 4 legs? It didn't. 2 or 3 lizards were used in the filming of this movie, an Iguana, a young alligator, and what appears to be a young Tegu. I really don't think its cool that they actually had these lizards injuring each other for the film. But seriously, someone is legit holding the Iguana up from behind the bushes and making it look as if its on two legs. It was an awesome concept for a movie but heck, I would have enjoyed it even more if it were TOY dinosaurs, much less completely unrelated reptiles. Bleh, I don't think I care to see it again.

Zapi Sisma I didn't believe the rating it because MST3K sheeple rate movies low for no reason. I've seen good movies with abysmal IMDb rating because of fans of MST3K who are completely unable to form opinions, like The Unearthly. And even now, completely agreeing with a score I don't think my reasons are not what made the people score so low. The reasons are mostly nonverbal misogyny and animal cruelty. One of the male doctors is really casually violent with his partner, pushing and pulling for no reason etc. It like transcends the movie and you can feel it's some the actors bottled aggression. There one scene where (again for no reason) he pushes the actor and you can see she bumps her head against the rock and grimaces in very real pain. But the really feel bad stuff is animals. Iguanas and little crocodiles (?) are portraying dinosaurs, and that would be completely fine and funny in an endearing way if they were not put together to fight. Little crocodile twists the iguanas arm for like 720 degrees, doing the legendary crocodile twist. That can not NOT end in broken limbs. Bites also happen. Awful stuff.

Keith Pangilinan This movie came out in the same year of "East of Eden," "The Seven Year Itch," & "Marty." But there are good reasons why "King Dinosaur" cannot be remembered fondly as those other films. Not only were there no stars, but the sexist depictions & on-screen animal cruelty are quite disconcerting for any modern-day audience. Even if you understand that that was the norm back then, such political incorrectness is only a part of what makes "King Dinosaur" unappealing alongside numerous stock footage & "lazy science." From that specifically, planet Nova is so similar to Earth that it has a breathable atmosphere. If you were to tune in late and see the cast walk around no longer dressed like astronauts, you'd think you're watching a different film. Also to be specific on the sexism, notice that the male scientists must act brave & fire their weapons while the females scream & cling to their mates. One particular scene that stuck w/ me is when the lady scientist tears up a photo of the iguana known as King Dinosaur just 'cause she's too emotional (& I say that ironically). & the kinds of stock footage consist of military, government, or scientific clips, nature clips, or even clips from other movies, like that "woolly mammoth" one. I saw this horrendous movie only by buying the DVD set of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" it came in, & w/ the peanut gallery of Joel, Crow, & Tom Servo, it's the best way to watch it.

dbborroughs A new Planet is found and a rocket is sent off to investigate it. Once it arrives the planet is found to be full of giant animals and dinosaurs.El-cheapo production from Bert I Gordon is so full of stock footage one wonders why they bothered to shoot any new footage at all. Watching this again last night I was shocked to find that in the first ten minutes that there was maybe only four shots (those of the stars) that weren't taken from somewhere else. Its gets better after that, but at the same time the story doesn't. Here's proof that they don't make them like they used to any more, thank god. I doubt very much you could cut together this much stock footage and pass it off as a "new" movie and with out an audience screaming for its money back. The effects are regular critters on small sets superimposed behind our stars. Its par for the course for the day, but its unevenly handled, with the stuff lifted from One Million BC looking better than Gordon's new footage.This is a classic bad movie. My rating of 4 out of 10 is based upon viewing it as a bad movie. Those looking for jaw dropping inept film making need look no father. If one wanted to look at it as a normal movie then this would be hovering somewhere around zero.