When I was a kid, 8 or so, I liked this film. I had taped it from TV and I watched it quite often. I was in awe with those dinosaurs, even though I didn't get much of the film.
Now I've seen the movie again after many years and I couldn't help but to laugh at the whole seriousness of the film. There's a short narrative in English in the beginning, but the rest of the film is spoken in Cavemannish, in where the most common word seemed to be "Akita". There were subtitles on the film, so you keep up with the story, even though it's not extremely hard to follow. Blonde chick Sanna (Victoria Vetri), who is going to be sacrificed to the sun, escapes after a some sort of lunar upheaval. So the frightened leader Kingsor (Patrick Allen) starts to hunt her, but a good caveman Tara (Robin Hawdon) fells in love with the girl and tries to protect her.
The world is habituated by humans and dinosaurs side by side. Big monsters attack, even tough some of them seem to be vegetarians instead of flesh eaters, seemingly randomly in several scenes just to bring in some action to the film. As an effect film "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" is hopelessly aged, despite this some scenes look actually quite nice.
There is this campy feel in the film and it's hard to take it seriously, but you have to say, that it pretty brave to do a film, that uses some sort of mock up language as its main language. And the film is silly, you can't get around that.
Now I've seen the movie again after many years and I couldn't help but to laugh at the whole seriousness of the film. There's a short narrative in English in the beginning, but the rest of the film is spoken in Cavemannish, in where the most common word seemed to be "Akita". There were subtitles on the film, so you keep up with the story, even though it's not extremely hard to follow. Blonde chick Sanna (Victoria Vetri), who is going to be sacrificed to the sun, escapes after a some sort of lunar upheaval. So the frightened leader Kingsor (Patrick Allen) starts to hunt her, but a good caveman Tara (Robin Hawdon) fells in love with the girl and tries to protect her.
The world is habituated by humans and dinosaurs side by side. Big monsters attack, even tough some of them seem to be vegetarians instead of flesh eaters, seemingly randomly in several scenes just to bring in some action to the film. As an effect film "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" is hopelessly aged, despite this some scenes look actually quite nice.
There is this campy feel in the film and it's hard to take it seriously, but you have to say, that it pretty brave to do a film, that uses some sort of mock up language as its main language. And the film is silly, you can't get around that.