StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Cortechba Overrated

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

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.

perkin2000 loved this film as a kid. Although, like most children, I was a largely useless idiot who drew energy from sherbet and E-numbers, even then I had enough awareness to realise that the acting in this film is a relentless sensory pummelling of awful.However, it does have dinosaurs in it, and at that age, that's all you need to make a film brilliant. Some years ago me and my brother went to see Land And Freedom, The Ken Loach film about a young Scouser who goes over to Spain to fight against fascism. As an adult, I could appreciate the nuances of the story and found the ending very emotional and poignant. As a child I would've found it boring. If there had been a version where the fifteen minute conversation about collectivised farming had ended with a Tyrannosaurus and a Triceratops kicking each other's balls off, I would've loved it. Point is, if you drop dinosaurs in any old crap, pre-teen boys will love it. Hence why, I loved this film as a nipper, even with performances that could fairly be used as a litmus standard of terrible.Also, if this film didn't have dinosaurs in it, it would just be called 'Planet'. That would be rubbish.Anyway, in this thundering mud-baby of brilliance, a group of people are flying through space in a plastic model spaceship, it goes wrong so they get in a plastic escape cup and fall onto the dino-globe.They then spend about 80% of the film walking, occasionally stopping to forget their dialogue and battle with some amusing stop motion plasticine lizards who have trouble retaining size continuity from shot to shot.The effects are actually not too shabby here and there and it looks like the sculpting of the creatures was the only part of the film where any money and effort was expended.If nothing else, it's worth seeing for the range of moustaches involved and the acting.Originally at: http://filmplop.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/230213-planet-of- dinosaurs-1977.html

wbswetnam Planet of Dinosaurs is a very low-budget space sci-fi movie from the late 1970s, featuring absolutely no-name actors, stop motion dinosaurs and awful dialogue. These elements, combined with the "music" provided by a cheap Casio keyboard (it sounds a lot like the music in Pod People, an equally dismal sci-fi movie from the early 1980s), mean that it is in solid B movie territory! But it is still fun, in a weird sort of way. It definitely has that 70s feel to it! Nearly all the male actors sport thick moustaches and open shirts, and the ladies look like they're ready for the disco floor, too. Pamela Bottaro, who plays Nyla, is particularly fetching, especially wearing that sexy halter top in the last 30 seconds of the movie... wow!