I love the way everyone who reviews this movie feels compelled to point out the fact that there were no dinos in the caveman era, as if they were expecting a pat on the head and a gold star from their science teachers (These are presumably the same geniuses who can't help patting themselves on the backs because they figured out that the giant shrews in KILLER SHREWS are dogs in suits). I want to establish an award, which I would like to call either the DUH! or the NIETSNIE, to be given once a year to the bonehead who makes the most stunningly obvious observation under the impression that he's being clever as all hell (maybe I should name it after my own dad, who trashed the old FLYING NUN TV series on the grounds that nuns with big hats are not capable of independent flight, as if no one before him had ever realized that). Now here's the big irony that these MENSA candidates seem to overlook: in all of the reviews I've read of KING KONG. THE LOST WORLD, LOST CONTINENT, etc., one criticism that I've never seen leveled at these movies is that dinosaurs don't live in modern times. Dinosaurs living in modern times is apparently acceptable whereas dinosaurs existing 100,000 years ago is just ridiculous! So what do they think, that dinosaurs all went extinct 65,000,000 years ago then magically popped up again around 1912? Think about it, people!
Oh, about the movie itself? I find it kind of a bore whenever the Harryhausen monsters aren't on screen. Raquel Welch and Martine Beswick help make up for it a little but not that much. The scene where the allosaurus attacks the camp of the Shell People is terrific.
Oh, about the movie itself? I find it kind of a bore whenever the Harryhausen monsters aren't on screen. Raquel Welch and Martine Beswick help make up for it a little but not that much. The scene where the allosaurus attacks the camp of the Shell People is terrific.