Dinosaurus!
Dinosaurus!
| 10 August 1960 (USA)
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After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population.

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AboveDeepBuggy

Some things I liked some I did not.

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Derry Herrera

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

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Winifred

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

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Phillida

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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George Taylor

No, Dinosaurus! isn't a great movie. Not in any sense of the word. But, unlike many of the snoozefest B's made today, it's a fun movie. It's definitely directed at kids, since it has a friendly neanderthal, a friendly brontosaurus (who the caveman and a kid ride on) and a nasty Allosaurus. On an island in the Caribbean, a lightning strike brings these three back from suspended animation, where havoc ensues. As I said, not great, but engaging and fun.

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Helio

I feel denied that I did not get to see this film as a kid but I guess it did not make it to our town's Saturday matinee offering. I remember seeing the Alamo, Hatari, Lawrence of Arabia and Eighty Days Around the World in Grade I. Heck I even remembering seeing 20,000 Leagues at the Drive-In when I was three. So I am sure I would have recalled this "classic". Although I doubt I would have been impressed with the made up dinosaurs - the brontosaurus is more convincing than the T-Rex but where is the Triceratops?I can even explain how a Jurasic creature can be found with a Cretacaous critter - they were just entombed at different times by the same process. The Neanderthal fellow not so much although he is pretty convincing. The scene with the mirror is great.Now I don't recall what I saw last month never mind last year (the hard drive is full). That is why IMDB is helpful - if I gave it a rating then I saw it. But I can rewatch it again - reruns don't bother me anymore.

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bkoganbing

How well I remember this film Dinosaurus from seeing it in the theaters way back when I was 13 years old. I liked the special effects in creating the two dinosaurs and the climax is a very exciting one still. Of course now I can spot some of the ludicrousness of the story.The location is a small Caribbean Island where a group of construction workers are dredging a harbor to make it a deep water port. Their dynamiting has unleashed a cold underground river and two dinosaurs, a tyrannosaurus and a brontosaurus are released from being cryogenically frozen for a million years or so. As is true in a flock of other science fiction films they thaw out and lightning strikes them and they come alive like Frankenstein's monster.Of course they're kind of hungry and the brontosaurus has a nice tropical rain forest to feast on. But T-Rex is a flesh eater and there's lots of people flesh around as well.Unknown to everyone else a caveman also was washed ashore and he thawed out as well. He was found by Fred Engelberg who has to be one of the stupidest villains ever on record. In the absence of the governor he's in charge. I'm assuming the island is an American possession, the rest of the natives have Spanish accents both white and black, but Engelberg for reasons I can't figure out has a French accent. He wants his caveman to make a profit off of and even with a raging T-Rex around he's going to capture that caveman. As the natives of the island would say, Que Pendejo.The climax involves the lead actor and construction boss Ward Ramsey dueling with Tyrannosaurus using a steam shovel as a weapon. That has stuck with me since childhood and it's very excitingly staged.Dinosaurus is still a suspenseful and exciting science fiction film to watch with its no name cast and nice special effects for their time.

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ctomvelu-1

I was 10 when I saw DINOSAURUS in a theater. While the acting left much to be desired, and the film was obviously shot on a shoestring, the animated dinosaurs seemed pretty awesome for the time. Ray Harryhausen this ain't, but for a dinosaur-loving kid like myself, it definitely hit the spot. A caveman and two dinosaurs, one of them a T-Rex, are discovered and accidentally revived in 1960. In the end, it takes a modern mechanical marvel to subdue the rampaging T-Rex. The caveman befriends a little boy, whom I assume we tykes in the audience were meant to identify with. Good fun. Best seen on a big screen with booming sound, and today that's possible right at home with a large flat-screen digital TV and a 5.1 Dolby home theater setup.

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