Dinosaur Island
Dinosaur Island
PG | 20 December 2014 (USA)
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The adventure begins when Lucas, a 13 year old boy, embarks on the vacation of a lifetime. When disaster strikes, Lucas finds himself stranded in a strange land littered with ghost ships and prehistoric creatures. While searching for other signs of life, Lucas hears a radio broadcast in the distance and is drawn into the jungle where he encounters a beautiful young girl who claims to have come from the 1950s. Together they set out on a quest to get home all the while uncovering secrets that will forever change the future.

Reviews
bennettalt

For all the flaws of this movie (and there are many) Director Matt Drummond needs to have a long, hard think before directing children again. Just look at the poor reviews for the "actors" in this movie elsewhere on this site - Drummond put them in this position in the first place. Matt, as a director you have responsibility first in casting and then in directing/coaching - neither of which were evident in this film. Cajoling your production/marketing/cast to "vote up" the film on here wont fix that either. So next time you direct firstly don't put children in a position where they will be ridiculed on a site such as this - get the casting right. Next get a good team of coaches in place to support their talent and lastly don't be lazy with the screenplay - I don't think the best actors on earth would have had a hope with this script (was the ridiculously loud and never-ending soundtrack an attempt to cover up the dialogue?). Apart from that it was interesting to see feathered Dinosaurs - current vogue with palaeontologists.

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Jack

My family watched this movie together and enjoyed it a lot. For the budget they had I give the effort a solid 10. The special effects and CGI are actually pretty good (again for the budget level). The acting is kids TV show level, but hey what do you expect? The kids in the movie have fun with it and do a decent job. The dinosaurs were creatively modeled and decorated, a nice departure from the usual rendering of dinosaurs in most movies. There was always some interesting action going on and the story was actually quite creative. My wife and I discussed the movie after wards and agreed that there was more story and creativity here than top-tier movies like Jurassic World and Avatar. I was surprised by the number of 1 star reviews, but those people are obviously comparing it to big Hollywood films. If you can get past unrealistic expectations you'll actually have fun with this movie.

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Diogo Santos

As regt said the only reviews you see that have a number bigger than 2 are basically users that participated in the making of this movie and then made an account specifically for this movie, which brings this movie even to a greater shame than it was already. I'm not even gonna bother to detail the whole thing, the movies is simply just bad, plot-wise, visually a literal piece of human waste, the characters are boring and the acting is just plain bad, special effects are as lamer than a 80's movie. Don't believe me? Well just check the reviews...all you see from the idiots who created their accounts are 8's and 10's and yet the rating is a solid 3,8 and it keeps going down.My advice, don't even illegally download this movie, you'll just waste bandwidth.

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choctop112

I was really surprised this movie was so good. My kids love this film. I don't usually go for Australian films but the kids wanted to see it and bingo it was thoroughly enjoyable. Such a gorgeous story with typical family friendly themes throughout. There was no swearing at all and it was so nice to just watch an innocent movie. It looked great and the kids loved the T-Rex and the bird character. The characters were sweet and the score was brilliant. Love the theme song and the opening titles were really pretty. This is an awesome movie to take the kids to see. Nice to hear Australian accents in a film that is not set in the desert, outback and not a depressing storyline. Highly recommend. The 1 star reviews on here are just ridiculous so I am giving it a 10 as it deserves much more than the rating given on this site.

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