GL84 When a special forces team is sent to investigate a distress signal at a top-secret military base, they find the base overrun by carnivorous dinosaurs and must battle the vicious creatures to get away alive.This here is one of the rare sequels that manages to come off as better than the original. It still has the same problem having atrocious-looking special effects for its dinosaurs, which always manage to come across as hand-puppets and miniatures in the scene, but that doesn't really impact the film too much when this one has as much positives as this one does. By taking the plot line of 'Aliens' and substituting dinosaurs, it comes away as a thrilling, high-energy action-packed film that contains a lot of great moments, from the opening introduction of the dinosaurs in the cavern below to their rampage through the compound attacking everyone in sight through some pretty ingenious sneak attacks, the helicopter ambush crash and the finale, which is a real highlight here as it's the grand battle between the bigger dinosaur and the digging equipment makes for a rather thrilling moment, especially as it's a pitched battle that takes place over a period of time and makes its' location all the better due to the precariousness of it. As well, there's plenty of blood and gore to be featured, which is a factor carried over from the first one and is enhanced with more sinewy ripping and tearing. Again, the fact that plot is note-for-note, even managing to replicate the same exact scenes as well, could be a flaw here as well as the rather phony-looking dinosaurs, but even still it's a lot better than the original.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

swedzin Why did I say "The Best in the Trilogy". Here is the explanation: This movie, is no more, no less a horrible and disgraceful copy of James Cameron's "Aliens" (1986). When you saw "Aliens", you can easily see it again in some different fashion. And here it is. The story is very, very similar. Even characters… Well, where to start, a group of technicians arrives in a giant power plant, or mine, or whatever the f**k is it, that happens to be a large nuclear reactor, and of course, we expect it to go boom… The place is crawling with raptors that enjoy to kill everything in their way, including one large (laughable) T-Rex (OK, In "Aliens" we have a bunch of drone aliens (raptors) and a big, nasty bitch – the queen (T-Rex)). The characters were also the same Jack Reed (John Savage, who… how the hell did he get here?), is a fine mixture of Corporal Hicks from Aliens (there played my Michael Biehn ) and somewhat of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), next we have Tom McQuade (Cliff De Young), a similar character to Burke from Aliens, and then we got Jesse (Ryan Thomas Johnson), a mixture of Newt and Ripley from the "Aliens", why Ripley? Because Jesse kills a T-Rex with a forklift on the end of the film, just as Ripley pushed out alien queen from space ship, The character of 'Monk' is no one else, but Hudson (Bill Paxton from "Aliens"), who makes jokes and get most scared when the things go out of control, other characters as Moses is a original, by the looks of things, but he did a bypass on the large doors, just as Hudson did in "Aliens", and by his looks, he bears a resemblance to Pvt. Frost from "Aliens". Ben Kahane (Don Stroud) is of course, Sgt. Apone and the girls (oh, I left the girls for the end, how rude of me… but I don't give a damn, frankly, my dear), first Sarah Rawlins had nothing to do with "Aliens" character, so it's free to say, that she is quite original, but gives us a resemblance to Pvt. Vasquez… maybe for a moment, or not, but she dies like Hudson... in gore and pain, and finally we have Joanne Galloway the pilot, very similar to "Aliens" pilot Ferro, also a female pilot, that dies in the same way. Killed off behind the pilot chair inside the aircraft. So much about those things, there is a lot more to say about connections between "Aliens" and "Carnosaur 2". In short… one big "copy/paste". The acting, atmosphere, script, special effects (especially gore and dinosaur effects), are just plain funny. The dinosaur puppets are the same and their movements are also the same – Lame! And for the end, guess what? I do recommend this film! Watch it, it is funny and entertaining, more different that the original, or the even more funnier "Carnosaur 3". Enjoy!

djeb2004 Well I must say that I did really enjoy this movie. I know this thing is no where near perfection, and I'm not judging this movie based on that. I am a big movie watcher and I must say that I was able to sit through the movie all the way through and stay pretty interested to see what was going to happen. I was actually impressed with the dinosaur affects. The velociraptors were actually pretty cool looking. These dinos looked more vicious than the ones in the first one did. It gave the Carnosaur title more meaning i think. I did notice the tyrannosaurus was the same from the first one, but this movie used it more which i think that was a plus. Overall the acting was mediocre, I thought John Savage was pretty good. The nice thing about no name or mediocre named actors is you don't really know who is going to die. You may get an idea, but you still watch to see how its going to go down. I would recommend this movie if your bored and nothing is really on TV. It is definitely worth watching. It is much much better than the first Carnosaur and even better than the lame Carnosaur 3. I would say this is the best of the serious. Even though its got the alien like plot but another fun factor is that the team going in there to repair the plant aren't armed to all living hell with guns. I'd say this movie learned a little from the first Carnosaur and then watched Aliens and was like, "hey, we can make a dino sequel!" I give this movie an 8 out of 10 simply because its better than the first and way better than the 3rd, but a fun movie overall and if your disappointed then you'll be only losing a buck at family video lol.

Paul Andrews Carnosaur 2 starts with a special team of underground engineers headed up by Ben Kahane (Don Stroud) being hired by military defence bloke Tom McQuade (Cliff De Young) to fly into a Government uranium mining facility to fix it's apparent electrical problems. The helicopter pilot Joanne Galloway (Neith Hunter) fires the engines up, Tom, Ben & his team consisting of Jack Reed (John Savage), 'Monk' (Rick Dean), Sarah Rawlins (Arabella Holzbog) & Ed Moses (Miguel A. Nunez Jr.) board & they all fly off deep into the Californian desert where the facility is hidden. Once they get there they discover the place completely deserted apart from a traumatised teenage boy named Jesse Turner (Ryan Thomas Johnson), they question him but Jesse is in shock & refuses to say anything. The team find widespread damage throughout the facility & soon discover that it has been overrun by genetically created Dinosaurs who slaughtered all the workers & proceed to kill everyone in the team. With the helicopter pilot dead & the chopper blown to pieces the team are stuck at the facility which is crawling with flesh eating Dinosaurs...Directed by Louis Morneau & produced by Roger Corman Carnosaur 2 is a massive Aliens (1986) rip-off much more so than the original Carnosaur (1993) was a Jurassic Park (1993) rip-off, the script by Michael Palmer basically is Aliens but with the setting changed. Lets detail the similarities shall we? There's the isolated complex that has had everyone running it slaughtered except for one child. There's the unruly bunch of outsiders including the selfish & uncaring company man whose only bothered about money. There's a scene in which a monster is waiting in the back of the getaway vehicle & attacks the pilot causing it to crash, Carnosuar 2 even has the shot of blood splashing on the windshield. There's the way the survivors have to barricade themselves into the facility & even check blueprints of the buildings on a computer while discussing what to do. There's the plot development that something has happened to the facility & it will be destroyed by a nuclear explosion in a short amount of time just to add to their problems & force them to make a daring escape. There's the scene in which the cowardly character is trapped in a corridor with the tough one who is injured & they find themselves surrounded by Dinosaurs at which point they light some dynamite & hold it together as it explodes killing lots of Dinosaurs allowing the hero & teenage brat to make their escape. There's the electronic facility voice who warns of impending danger & starts a countdown. Neither can we forget the climatic fight between the large Dinosaur & the hero who uses a huge yellow mechanical crane. Every single aspect, idea, theme, character, set or situation could be seen as ripped-off from Aliens, I'm surprised James Cameron hasn't sued & I think Cameron deserves as much credit for the screenplay as Michael Palmer. On it's own Carnosaur 2 is average entertainment, at least it moves along at a nice pace plus there's a fair amount of Dinosaur attacks & on screen action. I've sat through a lot worse.Director Morneau is no Cameron even though he tries to be. Even the lift they use looks exactly like the ones in Aliens right down to how they open with that mesh type grill. The film feels very Aliens & looks it. The special effects are slightly better than the original but that's because the Dinosaur scenes are quickly edited & they only appear on screen for a few seconds at a time. Again it's a mixture of hand puppets, mechanical models & guys in rubber suits, none look particularly convincing. There is a funny scene when the obligatory black guy has a mini boxing match with one of them! The gore is toned down compared to the first film, there's a gory bit when someone has her arm torn off & her guts pulled out but apart from that it's mostly just a bit of fake blood splashed around.Techncially Carnosaur 2 is OK, it's not the most polished film I've ever seen but it's competent most of the time. The acting wasn't great, no one stood out & I thought most of the character's were bland & dull.Carnosaur 2 is basically Aliens set on earth with Dinosaurs instead of aliens, it's as simple & straight forward as that. It's an alright way to pass 90 odd minutes but it's nothing original or special. Sequences from Carnosaur 2 were edited into Raptor (2001) & was followed by Carnosaur 3: Primal Species (1996) which is the final Carnosaur film to date.