Product Details

• Actors: Coolio, Cameron Daddo, Steve Braun, Amy Sloan
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Showtime Ent.
• DVD Release Date: December 27, 2005
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BNX3BE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,359 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Pterodactyl" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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PTERODACTYL - DVD Movie

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars PTERODACTYL PTERODACTYL DOR ME VOUS, January 13, 2006

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pterodactyl (DVD)

This made for SCIFI Channel thriller is quite entertaining for movies of its ilk. The special effects are pretty cool and the cast gamely engages in some ridiculous dialogue and action, but hey this is a giant dinosaur movie---who wants art? Cameron Daddo plays a paleontologist who is taking some of his students on an expedition on the Turkish/Armenian border. Amy Sloan plays Kate, his graduate student and would be lover. Also in the area is a special ops force out to take custody of a rebel leader. Of course as the movie progresses, the two parties of people converge to battle the army of pterodactyls, released by an earthquake in a volcano. There's lots of blood and guts as the nasty birdies engage in their predatory feeding, and lots of tense who's gonna get it scenes? While hardly a work of classic stature, PTERODACTYL provided the thrills and action I like in this kind of distracting movie.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dinosaurs Galore, March 4, 2006

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pterodactyl (DVD)

An American scientist and his students are in Turkey to look for fossils on a mountain. They are warned by the government that there are dangerous men in the wilds but they decide to go ahead. Enter an American military team looking for a renegade and you have the rest of the cast. Unfortunately, a recent earthquake has unearthed some pterodactyl eggs that then hatched. The are around the mountain is now the feeding ground for large numbers of these flying predators.

First one group and then the other runs afoul of the hungry beasts. As their numbers dwindle, it becomes obvious that the only way any of them are getting away safely is to try and eliminate the beasts. But is scientific knowledge and some minor military hardware enough to take on creatures that have survived the way these have? Well, they have no choice but to try.

I really did not expect a lot of this movie so I was surprised. We see the creatures almost from the start and we see a lot of them. If you add up the screen time for each individual creature it would probably be five times the length of the movie. The effects are pretty good although some of the injuries are rather campy. The characters are somewhat standard for this type of film but a few twists are added to keep them from being stale. All in all this one was pretty good. Check it out.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You have to know what you're picking up, May 7, 2007

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Music lover in Omaha "music lover in Omaha" (Omaha, Ne) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pterodactyl (DVD)

When you pick up a movie to watch and on the back cover is a pterodactyl chasing a white SUV and on the front is a dinosaur eye and a reptile hatching from an egg, you kind of have to know what to expect here. Yes, there are some cheesy special effects, but the pterodactyls are actually done pretty well. Sure, there is some weak acting, but then there is some pretty sincere acting too. There is plenty of gore, probably more than necessary but hey..I could forgive that. The film delivers in what it tries to do. Gore, thin plot, action and a romance. Oh, and the possibility of a sequel...that's important. Then there is Angie. I kind of hoped Angie would survive the film just because I thought she might just be dumb enough to. How could you not love Angie? She was beautiful, obnoxious and completely in love with herself. There is even a scene where she looks into a mirror and says: "I love you." And then I wondered why she became pterodactyl food. Well, duh. I was tempted to give this one 4 stars just because it was exactly what I expected it to be when I picked it up. The only reason it didn't get 4 is because I kept figuring out what was going to happen next a couple minutes before it happened. It was almost like a time warp where I came up with ideas and the film replicated them...hmmm, this could be a film in itself. A couple things: What was Angie thinking when she takes her clothes off in the wilds of a foreign country to go for a swim in an unknown and unexplored pool of water. Forget the pterodactyl circling overhead, what about snakes and leaches and a hundred other things that could be lurking. Not to mention the male students who get to ogle her in her underwear. What about the trained soldiers when killers from the sky came swooping down on them? Nobody ever learned how to duck? What were those two in the cabin thinking? They should have just hung a sign on the door: Pterodactyl Diner Now Open for Lunch. And of course, that rope crossing anchored by a sheep. Talk about an idea right out of the mind of a screenwriter! No one in real life would think of something like that and if they did think of it, no one in real life would actually suggest trying it. Did that soldier really think about the possibilities when he went out there to use the rope crossing? Finally, there was Coolio. He might be worth an extra star by himself. Without much to work with he gives a pretty decent performance. Caneron Daddo, Amy Sloan and Mircea Monroe make this watchable. All in all, this is a pretty typical Sci-Fi channel movie, better than most, not as good as some, but overall pretty entertaining if you're not looking for a serious dramatic sci-fi movie. Worth a viewing.