Dinosaur Babes

If I taught at a film school I would use this film as an example of how to do a low budget film right. Dinosaur Babes could have been easily been played for camp (and no one would've blamed the filmmakers) but it was effectively pulled off well considering the premise.

The special effects are low budget but used very well. Actually, the title of the movie is misleading. Granted there are plenty of half- and fully naked cave girls but the movie is so much more. Heck, after seeing this I want to make my own dinosaur movie.

The only suggestion I have to make the film better is to expand the role of the narrator. The other characters could talk in grunts or some primitive tongue and the narrator could translate for us as if we were watching one of those Mutual of Omaha wildlife programs. Sometimes the continuity isn't perfect but this is still an amazing film to watch.

Okay, so it's not great art. It's still pretty enjoyable for a film of it's kind. It's directed by the same guy who directed NYMPHOID BARBARIAN IN DINOSAUR HELL. He also did the stop-motion animated dinosaurs (in some scenes they are puppets or animatronics). It's brainless fun. I am hard-pressed to tell the plot since there didn't seem to be one but the special effects show a low-budget inventiveness that I admired and this is still a lot more interesting than BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and I think BLAIR WITCH cost more to make than this did. Trust me...you could rent a lot worse than this one. I can't wait to see what else Brett Piper gives us.

This movie is filmed in ambient light with hand held cameras. It's got some pretty women in it, but you can hardly tell because it's lit so badly and the cameras jerk around so much. There's a little nudity but only in the context of degradation and violence, no sex.

If you were looking for a sex comedy with dinosaurs, rent _Dinosaur Island_ (Fred Olen Ray and Jim Wynorski, '94) instead.

Aha...so this is among the low-budget films of the 90s. In my opinion, believe it or not, this is an OK use of the budget. Not that it's socially-redeeming, or anything, 'cause it ain't. It's just that I kept waiting for a really bad part of the movie to happen...but it didn't. Not that it's good, 'cause it ain't. Half bad 'bout says it. Three cavemen return to what's left of their village to learn via the dying breaths of one victim that the plunderers kidnapped three gals from the settlement. So off go our heroes to rescue the babes. That's the extremely simplistic plot. Like I say, I thought that the ancient beasts were OK. The dialogue was mercifully abbreviated. (Hey - that also describes the attire.) There are at least two things that I could have done without: (1) a narrator; and (2) the blending at the end of the futuristic with the prehistoric. Sexism be damned, but the ladies were pleasing to my eyes. Still, don't expect too much if you view this film - not even a lotta bare boobs - just plentiful skin. Buy it only if that doesn't exceed the cost of a reasonable rental.