AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Julian R. White I mean yeah, that's probably the first time I've ever seen one of the monster movies I've watched get a rating less than 2.0. But you know, I can't entirely say that it's undeserved. Let me ask you, since when did the Tyrannosaurus Rex walk on 4 legs? It didn't. 2 or 3 lizards were used in the filming of this movie, an Iguana, a young alligator, and what appears to be a young Tegu. I really don't think its cool that they actually had these lizards injuring each other for the film. But seriously, someone is legit holding the Iguana up from behind the bushes and making it look as if its on two legs. It was an awesome concept for a movie but heck, I would have enjoyed it even more if it were TOY dinosaurs, much less completely unrelated reptiles. Bleh, I don't think I care to see it again.

Scott LeBrun This ultra-cheap time killer stars William Bryant, Wanda Curtis, Douglas Henderson, and Patti Gallagher as a quartet of scientists sent to explore a strange new world that has just entered our solar system, and come in close proximity to Earth. They discover a planet much like Earth, with a lot of flora and fauna. They also find an island populated by so-called "dinosaurs", which do battle with each other before the humans' eyes."King Dinosaur" marked the directing debut for Bert I. Gordon, soon to make a name for himself with many "giant thing on the loose" sci-fi thrillers. It's therefore interesting as a somewhat historical curio, with not so special but still amusing effects, which basically consist of photographically enlarging various animals - iguanas, gators, ants, snakes, etc. The movie consists of a lot of stock footage, a very nondescript cast (the little honey bear "Joe" is the most endearing character in this bunch), and mucho exposition to start with, narrated by Marvin Miller. It doesn't have much of what viewers could consider highlights, other than Bryants' character wrestling with a gator and the epic giant reptile title fights near the end. (Not to mention an utterly *ridiculous* resolution.)This passable if not inspired schlock was scripted by Tom Gries (who went on to bigger and better things like "Will Penny" and "Breakheart Pass"), who'd made *his* directing debut on Gordons' first production, "Serpent Island".Five out of 10.

Coventry Although he's universally (and righteously) considered as one of the worst directors in history, I admit to be a fan of the notorious B.I.G! No, not the murdered gangster-rapper, but the writer/director/producer of several inept and incredibly low-budgeted horror and Sci-Fi movies during the 50's, 60's and 70's. "King Dinosaur" was his debut feature in 1955 and it still stands as probably the worst dinosaur movie there is to find (yes, there are a lot more of them than you might think). "King Dinosaur" contains all the bad and laughable elements that the MST3K crowd enjoys so much: horrible acting performances, a thoroughly idiotic script and dumb dialogs, footage that is borrowed from equally bad films, cheap set pieces and small, harmless animals that are ridiculously enlarged in order to look like gigantic menacing creatures. The film nevertheless starts promising and in a typically 1950's manner, with a stern voice-over informing us that an entirely new and never before noticed (!) planet has entered our solar system. Earth has got a new neighbor and all the great intellectual minds agree that this new planet – Nova – has the same inhabitable atmosphere. The good old US of A promptly puts together a space expedition featuring four scientists; two men and two women that are romantically involved. FOUR people, none of whom have any astronaut experience, is apparently enough for the most important mission of all time! When they arrive on Nova, it actually looks like they accidentally landed somewhere in Montana. There are forests, lakes, deer and honey bears. One of the crew members even wrestles with a crocodile! Only around two-thirds into the film, half of the mission's crew heads out to a volcanic island on the planet and comes face to face with the titular King Dinosaur. Two-thirds! Don't name your film "King Dinosaur" if the dinosaur is only a footnote in the whole stupid thing! Anyways, the character states that he resembles a T- Rex, but in fact it's an ordinary lizard filmed through a magnifying glass. He's supposed to be a relentless monster, but it's a damn lizard and they can't act, so he actually looks kind of cute and completely unaware of what he's doing. As said, this is one hopelessly inept hodgepodge of a film. 50's Sci-Fi flicks, as silly and cheap they generally are, have a certain enchantment value. "King Dinosaur", however, has no such thing whatsoever. It's a dumb ensemble of moronic plotting, unsympathetic characters and rubbish special effects. I would still warmly recommended it to bad cinema fanatics, though, because there are too many idiotic details to list! And at least the film is never boring, like so many of its contemporary genre colleagues.

march9hare Four astronauts (2 men and 2 women, natch) are sent to explore the planet Nova, which has conveniently dropped out of nowhere to settle into a nice, stable orbit near the earth. Once they land their rockets hip there, they get out and start wandering around, gawking like rubes at the plant and animal life (most of which is amazingly Earthlike). They also find the time to do some necking, get attacked by a giant spider, and collect a honey bear as a pet.So far, so what? Ah, but here's where the movie really goes into high gear! They see a "forboding" island and, intrepid explorers that they are, paddle their rubber raft over to investigate. Almost immediately upon landing, they're attacked by some of the cheesiest "dinosaurs" that Lippert Studios can offer up.Cutting to the chase - literally - they manage to escape the island, but not before they set an atomic bomb to wipe out the dinosaurs. "We've brought civilization to planet Nova", observes one of the men as the group watches the fireball expand into the sky.Ugh. This film plays like it was written by a committee of seventh-graders. Even by the standards of the day, this film is a loser, and is really only for those people who feel compelled to watch and/or archive junk like this. The only one worse that immediately comes to mind is "Two Lost Worlds" with James Arness (spelled "Aurness" in the credits). Avoid both of these as if you very life depended on it.