11/26/2022 0 Comments Toy dinosaur island![]() ![]() Speaking of the dinosaurs, I think they spent the vast majority of the budget on the special effects for the dinos. ![]() I'm not sure if there was a color in the rainbow they didn't put on that dinosaur. The raptors were interesting to look at, but the tyrannosaurus rex looked ridiculous with all those colors. Be forewarned that the dinosaurs look like they fell in an Easter egg coloring kit. This movie was geared up primarily for kids, as the two leads are teenagers. Throughout the movie, the two find themselves going through a few adventures. Lucas informs her that she would actually be closer to 70 since the year is 2014. A young girl - Kate - saves Lucas and takes him to her makeshift house, where she tells him that she is 16, and her birth year is 1940. The boy awakens on a beach far back in pre-history and shortly thereafter finds himself pursued by three raptors. When the boy gets on a plane, the crystal begins to interact with the aircraft, causing it to disappear. Lucas, a young boy, finds a crystal among his dad's belongings in an old house that neither of his parents want to take care of any longer. Really only for little kids, who won't mind the bad acting. SUMMARY: Poor acting in an otherwise imaginative film. It is, however, a perfectly safe film to sit kids in front of at the weekend and drift off yourself. If you don't have kids, then no, probably not. Older ones will find it as badly acted as I did, I'm sure. So is it worth watching? If you have kids, yes. As I say, the only thing which really let's the movie down is the acting, and the young leads can at least be forgiven for that. The story is pretty imaginative too and, whilst it won't make you wonder what is going to happen next, neither will it make you go "Huh?" at any point. But, for what they did manage, it is pretty good. Again, it's a kid's film, so the budget probably wasn't there for anything more substantial. That the CGI isn't up to the task of convincingly delivering these ideas is not their fault and they should be commended for their efforts. Some very talented people came up with some very nice and original images, monsters and scenes. The production values, whilst not huge, are generally pretty good and the CGI, though not entirely convincing at all, at least has the benefit of being imaginative. This is by far the worst element of the movie, which is otherwise quite well done. Who wrote some of this stuff? Combined with the bad acting, it just makes for some truly cringe-inducing moments. In addition, the dialogue has some truly awful moments that defy belief. It's an odd state of affairs that the two main characters weren't given better direction and coaching, since they occupy so much of the film's running time. ![]() The girl is tolerable and has potential, but the little boy is just teeth-grittingly bad. The two main leads - both kids - are not very good. So I'm going to dive in and just say it like it is. Cringe-inducing, mostly, rather than truly horrible. On the other hand, it has faults which make it a little painful for adults to watch. On the one hand, it is squarely aimed at small kids, and not very sophisticated small kids at that, so any criticism might seem churlish. I'm not really sure what to say about this movie. This is quite a bit better than Mr Wood's offerings! On the one hand, it's no mean feat putting a feature film together: on the other hand, Ed Wood. Credit and blame must go to story / scriptwriter / producer / director / special effects supremo Scott Drummond (suggestion, Scott - don't plaster your name all over the rather attractive title sequence before the film starts, leave it to the end). And the girl who plays Kate is required to speak in a clipped British accent, for no reason that I could see, which stretches her just a bit too far. The script is full of lines which ring false, and the kids overact and deliver some unconvincing line readings of linex which weren't very convincing to start off with. Not so much fun are a) the script and b) the two main youngsters. The dinosaurs are (literally) colourful, not to mention feathered. It's certainly way better than what we've seen over the yezrs from Asylum and the Syfy Channel. There are LOTS of dinosaurs and, while the CGI may not be up to blockbuster tentpole movie standards, it's not bad. This is a film for kids and, specifically, kids who love dinosaurs. Young Lucas finds himself marooned on a mysterious island populated with dinosaurs, wrecked ships and aircraft, and a self-possessed young girl from 50 years earlier. ![]()
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