Name The WORST Dinosaur Movie You've Ever Seen . . .

[tyrantqueen]

So it's more a feeling of disappointment with the bigger productions. Like Irimali pointed out at the example of Disney's Dinosaurs. There is such a lot waste of talent and well meant thoughts also in Dinostasia, WWD 3D and the JP-Franchise.

Dinotasia/Dinosaur Revolution shouldn't be lumped in with the JP movies and that terrible WWD3D movie. It's leagues ahead of them. It's only a shame it didn't live up to its potential.

[CityRaptor]

Wasn't that also the result of Executive Meddling? David Krentz is really unlucky when it comes to movies/series he worked on.

I also disagree about  "Any movie with dinosaur-suits" being bad, especially in case of the very first Godzilla.

[pylraster]

Aztec Rex and all the rest of the lame SyFy flicks. I know some people like them, but they're unwatchable to me.

[Federreptil]

So it's more a feeling of disappointment with the bigger productions. Like Irimali pointed out at the example of Disney's Dinosaurs. There is such a lot waste of talent and well meant thoughts also in Dinostasia, WWD 3D and the JP-Franchise.

Dinotasia/Dinosaur Revolution shouldn't be lumped in with the JP movies and that terrible WWD3D movie. It's leagues ahead of them. It's only a shame it didn't live up to its potential.

In the view of a kind of disappointment Dinostasia don't reach the desired level. The stories are nice but there have no continuous line. The permian start isn't necessary and because of the discovery channel concept there are heavy breaks in the storytelling. In the Dinosaur Revolution mode the interspersed experts disrupts. And the reduction of the storytelling to a silent movie shows sometimes the limits. It brings the Delgado 'Age of Reptiles' to the movies and need a lot of recognizable stereotypes in the plot. Nevertheless I like some of the single scenes and short stories very much in particular the last Trodoon, there are so many moments of beauty and humor in the whole movie. But at the end it's more a major experiment than a complete movie.
If you look to the WWD3D movie without a sound you can imagine how good some scenes would work if the whole project don't fall under the Hollywood Producers short thinking about an 3D-kids-fun like Ice Age with more Dinosaurs.

[CityRaptor]

Ice Age is probably a good comparism, given that Alex and Sid share the same voice. That is even true in the German dub.

[tyrantqueen]

So it's more a feeling of disappointment with the bigger productions. Like Irimali pointed out at the example of Disney's Dinosaurs. There is such a lot waste of talent and well meant thoughts also in Dinostasia, WWD 3D and the JP-Franchise.

Dinotasia/Dinosaur Revolution shouldn't be lumped in with the JP movies and that terrible WWD3D movie. It's leagues ahead of them. It's only a shame it didn't live up to its potential.

In the view of a kind of disappointment Dinostasia don't reach the desired level. The stories are nice but there have no continuous line. The permian start isn't necessary and because of the discovery channel concept there are heavy breaks in the storytelling. In the Dinosaur Revolution mode the interspersed experts disrupts. And the reduction of the storytelling to a silent movie shows sometimes the limits. It brings the Delgado 'Age of Reptiles' to the movies and need a lot of recognizable stereotypes in the plot. Nevertheless I like some of the single scenes and short stories very much in particular the last Trodoon, there are so many moments of beauty and humor in the whole movie. But at the end it's more a major experiment than a complete movie.
If you look to the WWD3D movie without a sound you can imagine how good some scenes would work if the whole project don't fall under the Hollywood Producers short thinking about an 3D-kids-fun like Ice Age with more Dinosaurs.

I love DR for the dinosaur designs and the artistry involved. Ricardo Delgado, Angie Rodrigues and David Krentz are all amazing artists. I haven't seen Dinotasia but from I understand it's just DR recut with a new narrator. I have no intention of watching it if that is the case.

I think the main problem with DR/Dinotasia is that it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a documentary or a story. It ended up being a weird hybrid of both. There was some blantant anthropomorphising going on and yet they were going for scientific accuracy at the same time, with the talking heads. It's a flawed masterpiece but I still love it for what it is.

Also, I've hated the Ice Age films since the first one.

[Plasticbeast95]

I loved the film style of the original WWD/WWB/WWM docudramas. If only they had the same attention to scientific accuracy that WWD3D had that would be the best of both.

I agree, its lack of "talking heads" puts it miles above most dino-docs.

[HD-man]

Also, I've hated the Ice Age films since the first one.

I get the sequels, but what's wrong w/the 1st 1?

[Federreptil]

I love DR for the dinosaur designs and the artistry involved. Ricardo Delgado, Angie Rodrigues and David Krentz are all amazing artists. I haven't seen Dinotasia but from I understand it's just DR recut with a new narrator. I have no intention of watching it if that is the case.

I think the main problem with DR/Dinotasia is that it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a documentary or a story. It ended up being a weird hybrid of both. There was some blantant anthropomorphising going on and yet they were going for scientific accuracy at the same time, with the talking heads. It's a flawed masterpiece but I still love it for what it is.

I agree that Ricardo Delgado, Angie Rodrigues and David Krentz are so much talented artists. Their comic book and models mine are all time favorites too. And in DR/Dinostasia are very sweeping moments and scenes. The voodoo priest design of the T-rex becomes a style icon. So it's so interesting and also a little bit frustrating to see that such a huge combination of talents did not reach the final goal: an intelligent, educational and breathtaking entertainment/documentation for the whole average family with time dependent effect. I started my personal mini-experiment with two families of friends. The kids are in a perfect age. Both I lent my Dinostasia DVD and the reaction after this was every time: em ... it's rather ok. Dinostasia is also a hybrid movie because it was planned as a TV series in six episodes. The final movie lacks now a through-going bow in the stories, because it's an attempted rescue for the initial idea of telling the whole thing without an omnipresent narrator, talking heads or speaking animals. But for a consequent satisfiying movie there would be one more elaborated story in one location and time more successful.

[SpartanSquat]

If I have to say one is Dinosaur Island. Yeah, some dinosaurs have great designs but the story is like shooting face with a shotgun. Sometimes I needed to stand and go to the bathroom. Another ones are Tammy and the T-rex, Carnosaur serie, some SyFy movies. Other one is, it doesnt have dinosaurs but its 10,000 BC. Since I watch Quest for Fire I consider 10.000 BC as this.

@City Raptor: I agree with you about Godzilla/Kaiju movies. Like all there are some good and bad films. Excellent films are like Godzilla 1954 or Heisei Movies. But some are really bad like The Last Dinosaur.

[tyrantqueen]

Also, I've hated the Ice Age films since the first one.

I get the sequels, but what's wrong w/the 1st 1?

Mostly for the same reason I don't like most Dreamworks films. Characters that are at best annoying and at worst completely unlikable.

Also I didn't like the humour. I didn't understand or enjoy the American football reference or the talk about baby poo. And the squirrel chasing after the acorn was awful and repetitive. I could go on but let's just say it wasn't my cup of tea.

[Gwangi]

I dislike most animated Dreamworks movies but I did enjoy the first "Ice Age" enjoyable. If didn't suffer from the things that plague the sequels. I mean yeah, you got your American football reference and baby poop jokes but I thought most of the jokes were clever and I liked that the film stayed small; without modern pop songs and dinosaurs and pirates and all that nonsense. It wasn't a "loud" kids movie, like "SharkTale" and most Dreamworks movies.

[stargatedalek]

Personally I still enjoy the new ones as much if not more than the first few films. But I guess part of the appeal to me is how bad the jokes are, for me it's funny because it's cheesy.

[suspsy]

I rather like Ice Age 3. Tyrannosaurus rex showing extraordinary parental care and a pack of feathery Guanlong. The ferocious ankylosaur was a stretch, although perhaps he was just really territorial.

[SpartanSquat]

I dislike most animated Dreamworks movies but I did enjoy the first "Ice Age" enjoyable. If didn't suffer from the things that plague the sequels. I mean yeah, you got your American football reference and baby poop jokes but I thought most of the jokes were clever and I liked that the film stayed small; without modern pop songs and dinosaurs and pirates and all that nonsense. It wasn't a "loud" kids movie, like "SharkTale" and most Dreamworks movies.

I think Ice Age is from Blue Sky and not Dreamworks. And in the fifth movie there are aliens!

[stargatedalek]

Aliens and also Buck comes back!

[suspsy]

. . . I am somewhat at a loss. Prehistoric mammals in space???

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age:_Collision_Course

[Gwangi]

The 3rd one was better than the 2nd and 4th one but they put way too much emphasis on Sid wanting to be a mother and just made the character look like a lunatic. I hate it when these movies generate a popular but minor character but then think the next course of action is to cram that same character down our throats in later sequels and spinoffs. That tow-truck from "Cars" and the minions from "Despicable Me" come to mind.

And "Ice Age" in space? What is this? A bad horror franchise like "Friday the 13" or "Leprachan"? Those movies always have an "in space" sequel.

And yes, "Ice Age" is from Blue Sky/Fox Studios. It does occur to me that DreamWorks is responsible for the "How to Train Your Dragon" franchise so I guess they're not that bad.

[CityRaptor]

So dumb characters are popular?

I rather like Ice Age 3. Tyrannosaurus rex showing extraordinary parental care and a pack of feathery Guanlong. The ferocious ankylosaur was a stretch, although perhaps he was just really territorial.

The ankylosaur just knew that mammals ruin everything!

[Takama]

Ice Age 1 was one of me and my Dads Favorite Movies.

I liked The Sequels, but i think there dropping the ball with this fourth Fifth one.