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A spaceship crashlands on an uncharted planet. The crew makes it out
alive, but soon they have to realize the planet is populated by dinosaurs
who are not too much into humans, so our spaceship crew has their hands
full to fend off the giant reptiles. The Captain (Louie Lawless) soon
decides the best way to survive was to make it up to a nearby plateau
where he figures the giant creatures cannot climb up to. He faces
opposition though from Baylor (Harvey Shain), president of the company
they were flying for, your typical office-bound businessman who has next
to no experience at all but thinks he can run the world because of his
wealth. He soon pays his preposterous behaviour with his life though, as
do several other crewmembers. Fiercer opposition to the captain though
comes from Jim (James Whitworth): While the captain wants to do everything
to defend his crew until the rescue team arrives (and it's doubtful if it
ever will), Jim takes a more offensive approach - he figures they will be
on the planet for a long time, so they should go out and kill or
domesticate the dinosaurs that cause them problems. Soon, this causes a
controversy over who's the alpha male of the flock, and only
second-in-command Nyla (Pamela Bottaro) manages to see to it that things
don't get ugly. Finally, even the captain has to admit that they have to
kill the unfriendly neighbourhood dinosaur, and after his attempt to
poison it fails - and even takes another crewmember (Max Thayer), Jim's
idea of luring it into a field of stakes where it's bound to stake itself
works like a charm ... Years later: Our heroes haven't been rescued yet,
but they have built themselves a nice little colony on their hostile
planet, and one of them (Charlotte Speer) has even had her first child
(Michael Lee) on the planet ... Low budget trash? Yes, the
film's outdoor locations look rather unspecial and distinctly earthlike,
the film's premise is simplistic, the script could have done with some
ironing, the dialogue is stilted, the characters are flat, the actors are
wooden, and not even especially good-looking. And yet, the film
delivers: It claims to be about the Planet of the Dinosaurs, and is
is. There are plenty of dinosaurs (or the stop-motion variety) in this
movie, and their scenes are rather well-made (well enough to reappear in
numerous other low budget movies over the years), and for all its
simplistic plot and bad dialogue, the film is at least well-paced. To
put it bluntly: You will know this film is bad only a few minutes into the
movie, yet you will find yourself enjoying it more than you ought to ...
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