Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Everything about this movie seem like a stupid failure. It might as well, be extinct; because barely anybody has heard of this low-budget 1990s Science-Fiction comedy film. Directed by Stewart Raffill, this film tells the story of a murderer high student, Michael (Paul Walker) whom brain is implant in an animatronic Tyrannosaurus by an evil scientist, Dr. Wachenstein (Terry Kiser) for some odd reason that never truly explain. Now in control of the T-Rex, Michael must find a way to find his sweetheart, Tammy (Denise Richards) while, getting revenge on those who cause his death. Can Michael find a new body with his girlfriend, Tammy or will Michael be in beast mode forever? Watch the movie to find out if you want to! Without spoiling the movie, too much, I have to say, everything about the T-Rex is wrong. I really don't get, how he able to cry tears, eat people, and die. It doesn't make any lick of sense within the means of the story. After all, the dinosaur is just an animatronic control by his brain, not a real creature. I guess, the original script, ask for a real dinosaur killing people, but the special effects were so bad and not convincing enough, that at the last second, they rewrote the story to have a fake-looking creature, follow around Tammy. Still, I really don't get, why the filmmakers made a great deal of hiding the flaws of the T-Rex, if they going to admit, how crappy, it looks. I guess, the movie was trying to be tongue 'n' cheek with how cheesy, its special effects, are, but it comes across as jarring and confusing with its bad editing trying to cover those spots. There are tons of scenes that really, seem to end, very oddly! All those cuts, were very uncomfortable to watch in the PG-13 film version. There's an Italian R-rated version of this movie with a few deleted scenes, but the gore factor doesn't really help much, but it makes for a more finished film than the one, we got in America. The only thing, I can still, might help the film is maybe, some more eye-candy! After all, Denise Richards was attraction chick back in the 1990s. I really hoping to see more of her, in this film. I do have to say, watching Tammy's striptease toward the end was pretty sexy, even how stupid, it was to have Michael's Brain in a Jar sparking wildly as a substitute for an orgasm. Despite that, the movie isn't that great of a watch. Yes, the effects are laughable, but the majority of the force jokes are too offensive, dumb, or dark. Seeing moments like Tammy going to a morgue to find, dead people with huge d*cks to sleep with, is unsettling. Now that Paul Walker has tragically passed away, you will never be able to look again at the scene where the coffin of Tammy's boyfriend is opened, revealing his rotten and maggot-infested corpse. Still, I did, get a laugh of seeing Michael get mauled by lion. Call me, a sadist, but it's just way too bizarre, not to. The acting in this film is just mediocre. Nobody came out of this film, looking strong. Paul Walker's presence in the film is far too little and he wasn't really given much to shine. His look is god-awful. Paul Walker's dated ugly purple short midriff t-shirt, which he wore in the majority of his scenes is just not appealing. Like, I said, before Denise Richards at the time, was indeed, a great looker, but her acting chops, was below standards. Her mood swings, are really noticeable. Terry Kiser as the over the top 'Frankenstein' type scientist was just too hammy to take seriously. I would rather take his deadpan counterpart, Bernie from 1989's Weekend at Bernie, over this. The supporting cast didn't help. George Pilgrim as the side villain, Billy & Theo Forsett as Tammy's homosexual friend, Bryon was a little too much of a caricature than flesh out characters. If anything, Buck Flower as Sheriff Norville is the only one that seem, realistic. Overall: This Frankenstein meets Jurassic Park hybrid film is not really worth anybody time, watching. Not only does it handled adult themes in the wrong immature way, but most of the jokes fall flat. I really don't see, many people seeing this film. If they did, I bet you, that they wish a meteor would come down, put this film to sleep. It's that bad.

Tammy (Denise Richards) is a young college student still living with her folks. She has the ex-boyfriend from hell, truly. He beats up all of her new love interests and tries to control her life. Although she has her eye on Michael, she plays it cool to protect him. But, hormones are hormones. She asks him to come over to her house one night and he does. Trouble is, her ex shows up, too. Michael gets the beating of a lifetime and ends up in a coma. Meanwhile, an unethical scientist needs a brain for his animatronic dinosaur. Michael's brain will do and he steals Michael from the hospital. So, that's how we arrive at a T-Rex called Michael. He is out for revenge and he is lethal. Can you spell trouble? This is an absolutely terrible movie. It has cult aspirations but they fall far short of true entertainment. Richards tries very hard and looks beautiful through one preposterous scene after another. The rest of the cast is pretty forgettable. Even the special effects are not that great. Okay. Someone out there will probably love this movie for its foibles, like an Ed Wood disaster. If you are that type, go find yourself a copy of this one. But, for everyone else, stay far, far away. You will end up blowing a couple of hours of your life, time you will never get back.

Boy dies. Boy's brain is implanted (?!) into animatronic dinosaur. Animatronic dinosaur w/ boy's brain seeks revenge. And that's not even the worst part-- Denise Richards is the lead.Oh God my eyes! It hurts, it hurts! And yet I cannot look away!

I was channel surfing the other night on DirectTV, and came across this movie with the wacky title. When I read the nutty plot description and noticed that it starred Ellen Dubin (from Lexx) and Denise Richards in an early role, I selected it out of curiosity. I expected to watch it for maybe five minutes and then get bored and turn to something else. I ended up, however, being really surprised by how entertaining I found this film to be. I knew I had to see what other people at IMDb thought about it. And just as I expected, almost everyone here hated it. I'm not surprised that most people don't "get" this movie. Those without any sense of camp will have no appreciation for it.Let me explain something to everyone: This movie is bad, and the people who wrote and directed it KNEW that they were making a bad movie. Most of the characters and things that go on in it are totally, utterly ridiculous, and the filmmakers obviously reveled in this fact, to a degree of aggressive silliness. Realism and reality have little to do with this film. Basically, it's a send-up of other B-movies--romance, sci-fi, horror, etc--and a clever one at that. But apparently very few seem to have recognized it as such. Do people really think that the filmmakers were just too dumb not to realize that real-life funeral-goers would have noticed a huge T-rex watching the burial service from behind some shrubs just a few yards away? Or that the creepiness of the tender love scenes between Tammy and her grotesque dinosaur "boyfriend" was an accident? The movie's deliberate outrageousness and low-mindedness is what makes this movie fun and is the source of some of its funniest moments. For the first half of the film, I couldn't believe what I was watching, and couldn't believe that anyone would make a film like this.And then I loved it!