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Rifftrax: Planet of Dinosaurs - from the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000!

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How Mystery Science Theater 3000 missed skewering this movie is a mystery to me. The Rifftrax trio of Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett do an outstanding job of tearing this movie apart, much the same way that the stop-motion dinosaurs tear their victims apart. One pointless shot of the sun in the sky elicited this memorable comment. "Hi. This is God. Watch me mess with these chuckleheads!" The only way anyone can sit through this movie of space shipwrecked survivors wandering around aimlessly, periodically stopping for rest periods, and occasionally getting killed, is by enjoying the riffs of the Rifftrax trio.

"Halt, who plods there?" Oh I know, a bunch of hairy people from late 70s public television... all to the wonderful sounds of painfully awful synthesizer music. If you like watching people walk around while not really doing anything, then it's the greatest movie you've ever seen. On the other hand, it's much more fun hearing the gang give it their all they've got. I was very impressed with the job they did this time on the commentary because there is A LOT of downtime in the movie for them to cover and they pull it off wonderfully, even slipping in a callback or two to MST3K episodes. Basically, it's another quality Rifftrax episode that's worth every penny if you like the commentaries they produce.

...this is the one that does it.

I've watched quite a few Rifftrax DVDs and, on the whole, I'm rather entertained by them. They're always funny, Mike and Co. always do a good job, but its just not quite the same as MST3k. I don't know what it is exactly, but they always fall just the littlest, tiniest bit short of being as great as MST3k was.

I figured at some point I'd get the DVD that finally brings it up a notch, and this one is it. "Planet Of Dinosaurs" is incredible, and ranks right up there with my favorite MST3k episodes.

The movie is about a marooned spaceship crew that wanders around, fights, complains, wanders around some more, has several rest periods, and occasionally comes up against some dinosaurs. Its prime MST3k material, and Mike, Kevin and Bill just knock it out of the park. It really does measure up with the best of the Sci-Fi years. Rapid fire, super funny, its the best RiffTrax I've seen to date.

If you're mourning the loss of MST still but haven't checked out RiffTrax yet, start here. Its the finest offering thusfar.

The gang is on fire here riffing and ripping a film that begs to be savaged. Must've watched it 10 times in the month I've owned it and it kills me every time. Definitely their best post-MST3K attack since Wild Women of Wongo.

I've been a huge fan of Rifftrax ever since I stumbled upon them back when they first came out. I'm so glad they are releasing stuff on DVD now. We just finished watching Planet of Dinosaurs last night and both my wife and I loved it. There were several laugh-out-loud moments and the running commentary kept us entertained throughout. Another strong entry in the Rifftrax collection. I highly recommend this one. I hope they keep them coming!

I A=C=T=U=A=L=L=Y w=a=n=t=e=d this '70s movie
"PLANET OF THE DINOSAURS" because of the excel-
lent, so-called, stop motion animation like the first
KING KONG movie, and those Ray Harryhausen movies like
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA; EARTH Vs. THE FLYING
SAUCERS; MYSTERIOUS ISLAND; and 20-MILLION MILES TO
EARTH.
The price of this stand-alone movie was outrageous, elsewhere.
Planet of Dinosaurs (20th Anniversary Edition Widescreen )
Here, at this LOW price ((it is scratchy & full screen though))
you have the option of making fun of the horrible acting, and,
particularly, the enept direction.
The option RIFFTRAX is like watching a movie with ME(!)in the
1980s.
I'm sure ==> I <== enjoyed ME more than the audience did,
but, when you're in your sixties (now)--like me--there IS some-
thing to be said about NOT growing up.
I recommend this for the dinosaurs and the wiseguy in all of us.
Courtesy of remarks, ala MST 3000!
Buy it!

If you've ever seen the Rock Climbing on Lost Continent, Planet of Dinosaurs will certainly take you back. Aside from a decent job on stop-motion animation, this film is laughable from beginning to end. From the goofy costumes, to the weak captain, to the dated hairstyles, to the poorly constructed dinosaur protection, the Rifftrax crew finds something easy to make fun of every step of the way. Aside from the shorts, this is probably the best Rifftrax I've seen to date.

Of all the Rifftrax I've heard this one comes the closest to capturing the MST3K magic of lore.
Mike, Bill and Kevin are in great form and they have a humdinger of a film to go tackle.
The film itself is a slow, badly acted affair that happens to have some really nifty stop motion effects.
You have the option to watch the movie without the commentary, but why would you want to do that?

The guys from MST3000 are on their A game with this atrocity of a movie. Only thing i don't like with these Rifftrax DVD'S is the movie and riffing starts right of the bat. No intro or anything. I wish the guys would be Seen as silhoulette's as they were on MST300. They do that on the Cinematic Titanic DVD'S and it makes the viewing experience much better. I feels more interactive somehow. Instead on Rifftrax we never see the guys.

The movie should have been titled - Planet of the Very Lame Dinosaurs . Aother great movie from the Rifftrax crew . In its deffense this movie was filmed back before C.G.I. and blue screens so it looks very crude by todays Avatar standards. That being said this movie seems to be more about aimlessly walking around and occationaly there is a dinosuar thrown in .All in all a great movie to see riffed to shreads .