A recent discussion led me to recall this movie from my childhood. As a kid into dinosaurs (is there any other sort?) at the time I remember being taken to watch this as a "treat".
Let's just say I remember being totally bored, feeling totally like I had been lied to. Had I known what the movie was about beforehand, I would have politely told my mum "no thanks" to the treat and stayed at home.
The whole thing is a dull mess that just drags on and on. The dinosaur of the title is a skeleton that, from my recollection, spends most of the film being driven around the countryside in an "amusing" manner. Add in Bernard Bresslaw playing a Chinese henchman (no I'm not making it up) and the whole thing sinks into peurile nonsense.
It's all very well to remember crap old films fondly. But some crap old films deserve to be expunged from one's memory entirely. This is one such film. Absolutely avoid it at all costs!
Let's just say I remember being totally bored, feeling totally like I had been lied to. Had I known what the movie was about beforehand, I would have politely told my mum "no thanks" to the treat and stayed at home.
The whole thing is a dull mess that just drags on and on. The dinosaur of the title is a skeleton that, from my recollection, spends most of the film being driven around the countryside in an "amusing" manner. Add in Bernard Bresslaw playing a Chinese henchman (no I'm not making it up) and the whole thing sinks into peurile nonsense.
It's all very well to remember crap old films fondly. But some crap old films deserve to be expunged from one's memory entirely. This is one such film. Absolutely avoid it at all costs!