To me, this movie is perfection.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walks the dinosaur! Perhaps the heyday of stop-motion dinosaur movies was already over in 1977, when "Planet of Dinosaurs" got released, but this is nevertheless one of the goofiest and most charmingly inept efforts in its kind! I don't really know what inspired one-time director James K. Shea in order to make a contribution to the dinosaur genre, but I'm glad he did, and I'm also equally glad that he managed to find a 9-headed cast crazy enough to star in this camp! During his space expedition, Captain Lee and his crew struggle with serious engine trouble and his ship is forced to crash-land in a lake on a mysterious and unidentified planet. This planet strangely has clear blue skies, an atmosphere that allows everyone to breathe normally and it also homes an incredibly large amount of vile creatures! Radio operator Cindy quickly makes a fatal acquaintance with a humongous squid-monster when she tries to swim back to the ship in order to recover her equipment. Fortunately, she was the worst actress of the bunch. Unfortunately, however, she had a yummy body and wore an enticing turquoise bikini… From then onwards, the screenplay of "Planet of Dinosaurs" is fairly thin and monotonous. The remaining cast members walk a lot, they argue and occasionally one of them gets devoured by large prehistoric mastodons. Ship commander Lee wants to set up a safe and secluded base camp somewhere far from all the carnivores. So they walk….and walk….and walk. But the tough and fiercely bearded Mike wants them to defend themselves against the Dino's and even pro-actively attack the humongous T-Rex in his lair. So they argue… and argue… and argue some more. "Planet of Dinosaurs" somewhat feels like a creative version of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians", albeit in a rather unusual setting. Most of the characters are also authentic stereotypes, so we have – for example – the obnoxious executive, the joker and the beefcake who walks around shirtless the entire film! The stop-motion effects are delightful and utterly awesome! Well, if you're a fan of this kind of genuine artwork of course. If you're a nowadays teenager and you only swear by computer-engineered digital effects, it's more than likely that you'll find this film ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned the dinosaurs, and particularly that giant spider, are really cool. But the persons who had the most fun working for this production undeniably were the composers! Throughout the entire running time, "Planet of Dinosaurs" features a totally bonkers and retarded synthesizer score. Priceless!

I would have to say the acting on this film is some of the worst I have seen not including James Withworth he did a great job. The others were nobody's hired cause of the low-budget production. Almost similar to "The Crater Lake Monster" from '77 which most reviewers on here gave bad comments cause of the acting & low-budget production values. Special effects buffs on here most like me usually say the only thing that saved the film was the remarkable Stop-Motion Effects done by the great David Allen. This film is very much like that. I honestly have to say Crater Lake had better acting. This film was Directed by James K. Shea. I thought he did a great job at pulling it all together with the budget & staying in the budget rang considering him having the effects used being done through the painstaking Stop-Motion Animation Techniques conceived by Willis O'Brien & Ray Harryhausen. Which all guys who worked on this film were inspired by both men & pay homages to them in their little film. 90% of the animation sequences in the film were done by Doug Beswick yes for u Special Effects buffs, the same guy who helped Rick Baker create the costume for the 1972 Sci-Fi Cult Classic "Octaman". Which I would wish would turn up on DVD someday soon, I love that film too. I had no idea Doug was such a great animator I mean the dino fighting sequences are amazing in the film. Some of the best I have seen better then Willis O'Brien & his counterpart Pete Peterson. I also think they rival Ray Harryhausen's work as well as David Allen & Jim Danforth. I think his animation was as good as their stuff. Jim Aupperle also did some nice sequences he did a tad bit of Doug's T-Rex & Stegasaurus battle. Jim's spotlight though was the horned dinosaur sequence with that guy running across the cliff & the dinosaur impaling him with it's horn, in the chest. Steve Czerkas did a great job at building the miniatures & models he also did a bit of animation I can't recall which sequence he did though. The film also won the Saturn Award from The Academy Of Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Films because of the brilliant Stop-Motion Effects. For special effects buffs this film is great to others though not so great I give it an 8 though cause of the animation effects.

I thought I'd seen all the old dinosaur films. I thought this would be "Prehistoric Planet" with a different title. I expected dinosaur footage ripped off from other movies. I was pleasantly surprised. It's a new one on me and it's not that bad. I'm especially surprised that the special effects are so good for the standard of the acting and the budget it implies. It was nicely photographed and for its time the effects were comparable to the best in the genre and better than some - such as Dinosaurus. It looks as though all the budget went on stop motion animation - which is expensive - and the actors were dragged in off the street and paid in jelly beans or something. The story isn't bad. That's largely because it's kept simple. I was was also surprised that so many of the characters got eaten. It helped make it suspenseful not knowing who would survive. It was slightly predictable that the more obnoxious guy would come to a sticky end but other deaths were more shocking. Incidentally, the film was rather sexist. Generally the women screwed up and died because they were silly and girlie and clearly not capable of looking after themselves. The assumption was that women were not leadership material. The Alien movies laid that one to rest. The dinosaurs were so recognisable that I was expecting a corny denouement where they realised they were back on earth only through a time warp and millions of years in the past. Maybe they were. I'd like to think so. If so it's good that the writer and director left it for the audience to work that out. It would have been cleverer though if the last shot had somehow let us in on this while keeping the cast in the dark. Maybe the writer just wasn't that imaginative. I enjoyed how the sophisticated officers and scientists gradually devolved into cave people and then managed to climb back to civilisation. Satisfying but not particularly thrilling. Still worth a look if you like this genre.

A spaceship in some unspecified future where human beings are equipped for space travel and have laser guns for weapons, crash lands on a strange young planet where dinosaurs are coincidentally also evolved and only on this world, have not gone extinct...yet. The survivors of the crash, roughly ten bland characters wearing blue, white, and yellow suits, fight for survival against the alien prehistoric monsters."Planet of the Dinosaurs" is a peculiar movie. Like I said in my summary above, the stop-motion animated dinosaurs in the film are the only colorful actors. The models are crude, but effectively animated. And they are much more fascinating and intriguing than these characters portrayed by inexperienced actors and speaking lines from a script that must have been written overnight without a single revision. Obviously, most of the budget was put into the dinosaurs, and although there is a fair share of them, there's not nearly enough to save us from our boredom. These human characters are only there to scream, run around, and mutter these poorly-written and verbose speeches about survival. And unfortunately, not nearly enough of them get eaten by the dinosaurs.Overall, "Planet of the Dinosaurs" is not a film I plan on seeing again. Some people will simply love it for being so cheap and so poorly made. Sometimes, I enjoy movies like this. But this particular film is just too long, too boring, and very exhausting on the mind.