Review of
Planet
of Dinosaurs Rifftrax version DVD
Two out of five stars
Up front, this
is a very bad science fiction movie. The marooned premise is old and very
poorly carried out and the acting and special effects are at their best mediocre.
It opens with a spaceship suffering a catastrophic failure and a few of the
crew manage to get into a survival pod before it explodes. They crash land on a
conveniently Earth-like planet and manage to swim to shore before their ship
sinks under the water.
There are of
course dinosaurs on the planet and they must find shelter, food and some way to
fight the much larger carnivorous lizards. The cast contains the shirtless hunk
guy with significant muscles and the attractive woman in a very short skirt
that conveniently rises up her legs in critical moments. It is a hard movie to
watch to the end, at times even the actors appear to be bored with what they
are doing.
This disc
contains two versions of the movie, the second contains a running commentary by
Michael J. Nelson. The case claims that they are hilarious, but for me, they
were anything but extremely annoying. I simply could not watch the Rifftrax
version for more than a few minutes before I had to quit. While I know that
there are people that will enjoy hearing a running commentary on a very bad
movie, I am not one of them. This fact is the only reason that I gave this two
rather than one star.
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