Yawnosaur!

While daughter Laura Dern was making the biggest-budget dinosaur movie of all time for Steven Spielberg, her mom (Ladd) was over at the Roger Corman lot slogging her way through this opportunistic but actually more fun _Jurassic_ wannabe. You'd swear Ladd was channeling the spirit of Louise Fletcher if Fletcher weren't still alive.

One of the worst movies.

Had the misfortune of being released in the same year as another (slightly better) film featuring dinosaurs. Of course, that's only one of approximately 263 things working against this film. Sarcasm mode cancel.

The villain really has no motivation other than she hates everyone, I guess she was picked on in school or something. The creature effects are pretty lame, as is the plot. But this movie has balls, it is politically incorrect in a harsh way; so it may be worth watching just for that, depending on who you are.

I like to think that movies like this were made just for me. I'm just smart enough to appreciate the half-hearted science content (montage of ACGT sequences, security camera labeled "Camera 18P", etc) but just dumb enough to be enthralled by a cheap, needlessly gory rubber-suit-dinosaur movie. The plot is mind-numbing, the tone is pitch black, and I am happy.

I'm not gonna lie, as a kid, the amount of gore in these movies freaked me out something awful. I watched this today and there was a lot of pandiculation going on. Mmm hmm.

Cute knock-off of Jurassic Park. "Peace, green brother!"