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 enlarge | Director: James K. Shea
Actors: Mary Ann Appleseth, Forman Shane, Michael Thayer, James Whitworth, Charlotte Speer
Studio: Good Times Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $4.98
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 60006
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 84 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 81223
UPC: 018713812230
EAN: 0018713812230
ASIN: B00005OSKQ
Theatrical Release Date: 1979
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 perfect, you love it or you hate it January 1, 2005
Dark Kaiser
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I originally saw this movie about a decade ago and not to long afterwards i was banned from getting it out because everythime we went to the video store i would grab it. Sure its clay mation but its old, maybe it doesn't have great acting but its not horrible acting which ticks you off it just makes it more enjoyable. To be proper this movie would really be 4 stars but it has sentimental value so it deserves five and to out on dvd makes it better.
 Too Funny for Words November 3, 2004
BG Gleep (Northwest Ohio)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm sure they meant it to be serious, but it's so ... bad, it's funny. To me it looks like a school project, with incredibly bad music. On the other hand, there are all the great dinosaur fights I like in cheap dinosaur movies.
One fun thing to do with it is to watch it with other people who like this sort of stuff. Give them a game card with all the characters' names, and have them predict in advance who is the next "star" to get gored or eaten.
Who needs the Jurasic Park lawyer when you have Harvey?
 Earth calling... October 20, 2004
Pål Amundsen (Tønsberg, Vestfold Norway)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
I find it impossible to give this movie with its' actors, script and effects (+++) more than one star. It is clearly made by amateurs, and probably they had to pay for this themselves. It looks... crazy! The dinosaurs look really false, and the acting is terrible.
I saw this movie when I was a little boy, it was scary back then, so I had to buy this out of that value - and it was fun to see it again. It looked a lot better back then though...
The music... Well, whatever, nevermind =)
Nauseatingly Brilliant Dinosaur/Sci-fi Flick June 24, 2004
Christopher Guethe (Burke, VA United States)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This movie is perfect. The actors all seem to be ex-porn stars from the 70s trying to break into legitimate acting careers, executing their lines in their tight space clothes with the grace of a peg-legged pirate falling down a narrow flight of stairs. There's even a Ron Jeremy look-alike! The special effects are dated, but enjoyable. And the soundtrack epitomizes 70s science fiction--it's like Tangerine Dream on acid. The movie is perfect. If you never see another film like this for the rest of your life, you have to see "Planet of Dinosaurs".
Perfect Dinosaur and Spaceship Genre Film April 17, 2004
Robert I. Hedges
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
'Planet of the Dinosaurs' is a typical sci-fi cheapie from 1979 starring nobody of any note. A spaceship explodes (in a visually amusing 'special' effect) and the survivors end up on a hostile planet ruled by dinosaurs, hence the title. The acting is fairly awful (particularly among male cast members) and the spaceship effects are fairly laughable, but the dinosaurs are done with stop motion (by Douglas Beswick), and are actually amazingly well done. In fact, they are about as good as stop motion dinosaurs can be done. For that alone the movie is worth seeing, but the interplay with the humans is priceless (wait till you see some of the human vs. dinosaur battle scenes.) In fact the humans are as bad as the dinosaurs are good. Interestingly everyone is wearing hideous 1970s one piece disco survival ensemble uniforms, which make the downright homely cast appear even dowdier. The only remotely attractive human in the film is the gorgeous Mary Appleseth, who is, unfortunately, eaten by creatures early on. This film is also a favorite of mine for a totally different reason. Footage of the spaceship and dinosaurs was bought for $500 and used in the appallingly hilarious 'Galaxy of the Dinosaurs' in 1992, with additional footage shot on location in Mogadore, Ohio (behind the producer's parents house, if memory serves me correctly.) It is available in the "Bad Movie Police" series on DVD from Amazon, and it is highly recommended as well as this, the original. This is a type of movie not seen anymore. Bad acting and varying quality scenery and effects combine to make this a quintessential low budget sci-fi film from the 1970s. It's good in its own unique way, so go ahead and check it out.
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