A freshly hatched dinosaur has chosen a local lake as his new abode -
and everybody who happens to be in the neighbourhood seems to want his
share of the reptile, including three topless beach bunnies, a religious
fanatic, a klutzy country cop, a clown and a circus promoter, a group of
scouts, and a professor and his bikini-clad female assistants. Thing
is, the dinosaur also wants his fair share out of them, and most of the
time, the dinosaur gets what he wants ... The owner of the lake, a
stubborn farmer meanwhile tries to downplay the dinosaur threat and
develop the place into a tourist paradise, while his mad scientist son
tries to develop a serum to turn people into dinosaurs - for whatever
reason. In the end, it's found out that the dinosaur can be calmed only by
schmaltzy music, and once the threat is averted, a bunch of aliens descend
to earth to pick up the dinosaur, which is one of their pets, to take it
home. A no-budget indie dinosaur parody with special effects as
basic as those in the original Little
Shop of Horrors - now that's at least something to grab one's
attention. Unfortunately, the film as a whole is much worse than its
premise: the humour is of a very crude kind, almost the entire cast lacks
any talent for decent comedy, and the directorial effort of the film is
best described as basic and neither much good in the laughs- nor in the
scare-department - and thus, what could have been a very entertaining film
is actually a rather dull afair, with the attempts of all those on
screen to come across as hysterical only adding to the viewer's boredom.
Definitely not worth your time.
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