maxmoser3 In the midst of Jurassic Park being released in the summer of 1993 there were multiple cash grabs on the run from Jurassic Park's success from Congo to Godzilla you name it then just a few weeks prior in May of 1993 Carnosaur was released to a very small limited release, and then was released on home video later that year. Carnosaur is one of those films that feels unconnected by that I mean there are a lot of things that needed to be fixed specifically the plot. The plot feels as if there are two things going on once first is this dinosaur going nuts around this small town, and then there is stuff involving the government wanting to go after every citizen and the main antagonist is wanting to impregnate women with dinosaurs. Another downside of the film is that the humans aren't really that great besides Diane Ladd(the antagonist) and the supposed protagonist played by Raphael Sabarge who are amusing to watch on camera. The big plus of the film is how good the dinosaurs look considering the million dollar budget they had, and the kills are the best parts of the film. But overall Carnosaur is a forgettable bland creature feature that fails trying to be Jurassic Park or a fun creature feature.

Michael_Elliott Carnosaur (1993) ** (out of 4) Diane Ladd plays a mad scientist who plans on returning the Earth back to the dinosaurs. She's created a special serum that will have women giving birth to the creatures and soon they will take over everything. CARNOSAUR was producer Roger Corman's attempt to cash-in on Steven Spielberg's JURASSIC PARK, which would be released later in the year. It's pretty funny that Corman was able to get this thing a theatrical release but sadly the movie doesn't live up to much because it's just a tad bit too mainstream for its own good. Overall the film does manage to get a good feel of those 1950s monster movies where there's really not much of a story and instead of one we just get a monster running around killing people. This is actually one thing that works with the picture and I think another good thing is that the filmmakers never take the subject or story overly serious. This works for a number of reasons but the biggest is that star Ladd takes the material so serious that you can't help but be entertained by her maniac style performance. I liked the fact that she was so serious in the movie simply because it adds a level of entertainment that you wouldn't have had had the actress simply shown up to cash a check. Obviously the special effects weren't going to be on the level of the Spielberg film but for the most part I thought they were good. Yes, it's obvious these things aren't real but that really doesn't hurt the film as they're at least entertaining for what they are. I think what hurts the film is the fact that it's a tad bit too pretty for its own good. With the Spielberg movie being what it is, usually these rip-offs try to just be exploitation 101 and CARNOSAUR really doesn't reach that level. The usually seen nudity isn't anywhere to be found and the death scenes are pretty lifeless and uninteresting. A film like this really needed to deliver for its lack of effects and story but instead we're just given a watered down version of a horror movie.

Bozo I watched this movie expecting it to be a piece of crap. I watched it and guess what? It was a piece of crap.This should have been a comedy movie. Seriously. It would have done so much better. This was like "Muppets" gone wrong. The Muppets got new dinosaur friends (they are just puppets after all) and they get mad and break away from the group and start killing people.I thought this movie was seriously a joke cashing in on Jurassic Park like Shaun of the Dead did after the Dawn of the Dead remake craze. But this movie was serious and came out before Jurassic Park even.Plot: Women give birth to green dinosaur puppets who then get mad and attack people whose limbs seem to pop off easily like Mr. Potato Head (they are kept together by red bubblegum).I can't take this movie seriously. If you want to watch a bad movie to laugh at, this is the one for you.The only reason it scored so highly with me is it is funny as hell.4/10.

TheUnknown837-1 "Carnosaur" is a film that can probably blame its obviously low budget on it being a missed opportunity. This movie contains many good elements including a very wonderful performance by Academy Award-nominee Diane Ladd. About half of the time, this movie kept me entertained in its own unique way and the other half of the time I was bored to tears. Thus, I give it two stars out of four. Half and half. Sounds fair to me."Carnosaur" is loosely based on a novel by John Brosnan about a mad scientist (Diane Ladd) who is disgusted by the human race's destruction of the planet and plans to wipe it out with a killer virus while genetically engineering dinosaurs so that they can take over the planet once again.I was really surprised that film critic Gene Siskel, who had given the Oscar-winning masterpiece "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) a negative review found this movie appealing and gave it a marginally positive review. But now that I've actually seen the film, I can agree with him part way. I still give it a negative review, but I do see why he might have enjoyed it. First of all, like I mentioned earlier, Diane Ladd plays a terrific villain in this movie. Even though she was given some awfully poor lines to act on, she somehow managed to keep me interested and even a bit frightened whenever she was on the screen. I'll say this; she is a lot more interesting than the dinosaurs in this picture. Perhaps the reason "Carnosaur" was even made was to beat Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" (1993) to the big screen and make a little cash, which it did despite negative reviews from both critics and audience members. The film was made on a low budget and you can tell by the bad acting (excluding Diane Ladd, of course) and the poor special effects. The dinosaurs are seldom convincing at all. They are portrayed using rubber puppets and even though they are shot at night, they do become revealing at times. Sometimes painfully revealing. I also felt that the amount of blood and gore used in this film was way overdone, but that is typical of films of this grade.And there is also one major plot problem in this movie. If the Diane Ladd character wants to wipe out the human race, why not just create the virus and not even bother with the dinosaurs at all? Why go through all the trouble and risk being caught? Of course, the dinosaurs were thrown in one because of the novel source and two to get people interested in seeing the movie, but still it almost seems as though "Carnosaur" would have been better, at least more logical, if there were no dinosaurs in it at all. And it also doesn't make any sense that she only breeds carnivorous dinosaurs and no herbivores. There are some strangely appealing elements to "Carnosaur", much to my surprise, and there are some ludicrous and unbelievably poor elements, as anticipated. It is just too bad I wasn't surprised more while watching this movie. A few re-writes of the script and a slight ante in the budget would have done it wonders.