Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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.

Kel The Cave Man vs Dinosaur movie is ridiculed as unscientific. Harryhausen came to the defense of the concept in his Film Fantasy Scrapbook-casually suggesting archaeological evidence was pushing back human origins or closing the gap between them and dinosaurs. We will never prove 100 percent what was living in prehistoric times and I could not care less one way or the other. This is supposed to be a fantasy film. The idea of humans alongside dinosaurs isn't meant to be historical fact, but imaginative fun.In watching this film and its predecessor, what strikes me the most is the total professional manner the actors treat the subject matter. Especially impressive is Patrick Allen who spends a good deal of time shouting Neekro but handles it like he's doing Richard the Third! He behaves as professionally as Frank Langella playing an evil toy in Masters of the Universe.These days people would wink at the camera or have a joke-filled script--claiming that its the only way to deal with such nonsense. One thing about the 60s and a studio like Hammer was that they treated their films seriously.My only real criticism is the inclusion of a quick shot from Irwin Allen's despicable Lost World where in two reptiles were mutilated and killed for the film. Other than that I think the movie does its best with its budget and resources and its unfortunate movies today are too uptight and unimaginative to try something like this.

unedu-141 Saw this last night on the box. It was a bit cheesy - epitomised by having people coexisting with dinosaurs in the first place, but despite that it was fun and fast moving. I never knew what was going to happen next. My enjoyment was partly from the story, partly from the pure unadulterated nonsense which the film was as a whole. Watch out for the sea and sky changing from calm to raging storm in an instant; for Sanna chastising "her" dinosaur, which hangs its head in shame; the amazing costumes (how do they stay on? why do they wear them at all?); the language which at one point only seems to have one vowel ("a"), and later consists mostly of the word "akita" that means "yes," "no," "come here," "go there," "they went that way", "head them off at the pass," "I could do with a bite to eat," and "I think we are about to be engulfed by a tidal wave."

Prof-Hieronymos-Grost Hammer's follow up the successful One Million Years BC concerns a tribe that sacrifices blonde women to appease their sun god. Sanna a blonde woman escapes during said ritual, the tribal leader Kingsor makes it his duty to find her searching high and low throughout his domain. Sanna (Victoria Vetri) is rescued by an alpha male Tara, from a nearby fishing tribe, he falls for her immediately, but Kingsor turns up to cause trouble. Rather silly caveman social drama that uses annoying caveman talk as a means of communication throughout, it does get repetitive and tiresome towards the end. The plot also involves the creation of the Earths moon which naturally causes more concern for the primitives and also a rather unusual use of a Tsunami, well before they became popular. Another positive is the lovely females whose fur and leopardskin bikinis are very easy on the eye, if you're lucky the first edition of this DVD includes nudity from playboy centrefold Vetri.