Load of rubbish!!

Disturbing yet enthralling

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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.

Pretentious to the point of absurdity, this is one of the dumbest "smart" movies ever made. It all takes place on "the planet next door", a new arrival in our solar system that somehow parks itself between Earth and Mars. Four scientists (two men and two women) catch the express rocket to what is named Nova and find the planet to be exactly like Earth and inhabited by similar critters. Encounters with snakes and some friends mammals leads to an island filled with large Rubbermaid and alligators, and some of the silliest looking creatures outside of "It Conquered the World". There's also a giant fly that gets pelted with bullets simply for landing too close. A fight between one of the men and a normal sized rubber alligator is the comic highlight of the film. Calling a giant lizard a duplicate of a T-Rex has to be the dumbest scientist statement ever made. This one truly ranks among the worst of the worst and makes Ed Wood a genius in comparison.

This has to be one of the worst of the "B' movies. Idiotic plot,cheesy special effects,wooden acting. So many plot holes in this one:first,how does a planet just manage to enter our system without colliding with everything in its path(and with nobody noticing),and then conveniently park itself next to Earth? Next,if this new planet is so close to us,why does it take the rocket 4 months to get there? Why are all the animals so familiar? Then those gosh-awful "dinosaurs"! Blow up shots of an iguana,a caiman and a gila monster,"fighting" each other(tho I am curious if those were real fights,and if the caiman and gila were really killed,in which case it's cruelty to animals) Finally,how could they have possibly paddled a leaky rubber life raft far enough to escape being caught in the bomb's explosion? I remember this turkey being double billed with Monster From Green Hell,another clunker of the B variety,on Saturday morning TV.

Scientists discover a new planet and decide to send an exploratory rocket with four scientists (two men and two women – how convenient) aboard. The planet closely resembles Earth with its breathable atmosphere, lush vegetation, and plethora of wildlife. The place seems simply ideal – that is, until they visit an island in the middle of a nearby lake. The island's inhabitants aren't as cute and cuddly as the lemur they've adopted and named Joe. The island is home to dinosaurs! Can our band of intrepid scientists escape the island before they become a snack? One of the things I enjoy about 1950s sci-fi is that regardless of how bad or ridiculous a movie might be, these movies usually have a certain naive charm about them. That's not the case here. King Dinosaur has nothing that could remotely be called "charm". It's an abysmal mess. Even by Bert I. Gordon's standards it's a wretched movie (and if you're unfamiliar with Gordon's other works, those are some pretty low standards). The plot is pathetic. The acting is plain out pitiful. The depiction of the "scientists" and "science" is ludicrous. The special effects are a laugh-out-loud joke. The staged lizard/iguana/alligator fights are reprehensible. At least half the movie is composed of stock footage. And the movie is such a technical mess that I'm surprised this bunch of bozos was even able to get it on film. I'm racking my brain, but I've got absolutely nothing positive to say.But the most ridiculous moment in King Dinosaur (and one of the most ridiculous moments in movie history) comes about 5 minutes before the movie's end. Before the four "scientists" leave the island, one of them says, "I brought the atom bomb. I think it's a good time to use it." Huh? What did he just say? You mean he's been carrying an atomic weapon around like a loaf of bread? Carrying around food, water, or . . . oh I don't know . . . scientific equipment might make sense, but an atom bomb? I could even see carrying some sort of small hand-held weapon for self defense, but a nuclear warhead? It's got to be one of the most ridiculous moments ever put on film.