Dinosaurus! (1960)

The greatest movie ever made..!

Simply A Masterpiece

just watch it!

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Reasonably entertaining bit of fluff. The visual FX are well below the standard set by the great Ray Harryhausen, The girl is pretty, the hero is suitably heroic, the caveman is good hearted, and the kid isn't too annoying. I have a special fondness for this one because of my memories of seeing it at the drive-in.

Would you believe if you were told that two of the most memorable scenes of the worldly famous Jurassic Park franchise are direct copies taken from a mostly obscure, B-class movie shot decades before Michael Crichton conceived his blockbuster, genetic dinos? A T-Rex crushing a land rover under its foot in J.P. I; and a dinosaur killing another by twisting and breaking its neck in J.P. III. The land rover scene is almost a replica of the original; in the second case, the main differences in the remake are that the T-Rex is now the victim instead of the culprit, and its neck is snapped broken, in contrast with the slow twist the T-Rex applied to kill its opponent, a friendly brontosaurus. As the old saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...But this is just one reason I chose to review Dinosaurus! It was my first dinosaur movie in the big screen, and I left the theater in ecstasy. In fact, the second one was Jurassic Park, twenty years plus later, and the feeling was about the same. I watched all other dino-movies in-between on TV.That was a time when the only book published in my country about the wonder-beasts was a great little book authored by Roy Chapman Andrews. I was blessed to have a set of slides of prehistoric animals. TV was black-and-white. So that movie did leave an impression! Dinosaurus! fed my imagination and my soul for a very long period, so I'm very fond of it, and that's why Í chose to review the title.On the technical side, one should compare it to other of the same technological batch. Yes, it would still be a B- or C-movie in what regards to dino-mation, but sufficiently passable for an eight-years old kid who hadn't seen anything alike, even less superior to it. All in all, it "delivered".About the story, who cares??!! I was seeing gigantic, in-color dinosaurs at the cinema! It was good enough to make the story flow. Take a look and watch for yourself...

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.

A harmless low-budget movie from one of the people responsible for the original "The Blob" and "The 4D Man". Hurricane pulls up perfectly preserved dinosaur bodies from the ocean floor; Tyrannosaur and Brontosaurus, and a caveman. Lightning strikes, dinosaurs come to lift and terrorize bad actors. Caveman comes to life also, befriends kid, and ends up riding the brontosaurus.I saw this years ago, and remember it as being kinda cool. Always remembered the caveman trying to eat plastic fruit, then wondering into the bathroom and flushing the toilet. The FX were OK, I guess. Think they used puppets, and some stop-motion. Final confrontation with the Tyrannosaur vs a tractor was cool. Kind of a precursor for Ripley's duel with the queen in "Aliens.""Dinosaurus!" certainly won't make you forget "Jurassic Park," but it's an enjoyable little movie.