A film from 1960, this film features dinosaurs! Two dinosaurs! For some reason the film is titled Dinosaurus. It is about what one would expect from a monster film of the era as we have dinosaurs frozen, a comic relief caveman and a guy who is so bad that he beats children and shoots at the thing that he is chasing and which will make him rich. The means by which the dinosaurs are created most likely stop motion, but not top rate which would be Ray Harryhausen level, but not bottom rate either.
The story has a diver swimming through the opening credits, if I had to guess, I would say he was planting the explosives that come up later. Never really explain this guy, but that is what I determined. Well these explosions cause the men a good lunch as a woman nearly gets blown up, but is more concerned about the food that is lost so she dives in after it. She stays underwater too long and blacks out right after seeing a dinosaur! The men on the beach fish the creatures up while another man finds a caveman and hides him because it will make him rich! Soon the dinosaurs and caveman revive and cause chaos across the island, though they are more concerned with showing us the caveman going through a house.
This film adds the caveman for comic relief and a way to not have to have the dinosaurs on screen as much, I'm guessing. They do show the dinosaurs here and there as the Tyrannosaurus stomps a bus flat and a boy becomes friends with the other, but seeing the caveman react to every mirror in the house is much easier to film and show than things involving the stars of the show.
The movie has its moments, but it just did not work for me as I could not stand the little kid constantly talking to the dinosaur and caveman. Like either one will understand what the boy is saying. Once again, the evil character is not believable and not needed, you have a T-Rex in your film, he is all the bad you need! I also do not understand the general panic as the T-Rex does not exactly plow through any houses on the island, other than crushing a bus and nearly killing the brontosaurus he does very little else that is chaotic other than lose a fight with a crane.
The story has a diver swimming through the opening credits, if I had to guess, I would say he was planting the explosives that come up later. Never really explain this guy, but that is what I determined. Well these explosions cause the men a good lunch as a woman nearly gets blown up, but is more concerned about the food that is lost so she dives in after it. She stays underwater too long and blacks out right after seeing a dinosaur! The men on the beach fish the creatures up while another man finds a caveman and hides him because it will make him rich! Soon the dinosaurs and caveman revive and cause chaos across the island, though they are more concerned with showing us the caveman going through a house.
This film adds the caveman for comic relief and a way to not have to have the dinosaurs on screen as much, I'm guessing. They do show the dinosaurs here and there as the Tyrannosaurus stomps a bus flat and a boy becomes friends with the other, but seeing the caveman react to every mirror in the house is much easier to film and show than things involving the stars of the show.
The movie has its moments, but it just did not work for me as I could not stand the little kid constantly talking to the dinosaur and caveman. Like either one will understand what the boy is saying. Once again, the evil character is not believable and not needed, you have a T-Rex in your film, he is all the bad you need! I also do not understand the general panic as the T-Rex does not exactly plow through any houses on the island, other than crushing a bus and nearly killing the brontosaurus he does very little else that is chaotic other than lose a fight with a crane.