Very disappointing...

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Ahhh, one of the classics from my Godzilla-obsessed childhood. Seemed so much better back then..but apart from that, we have a Dinosaur obsessed scientist who believes that humans should be wiped out (except for her I guess) and the Dinosaurs brought back to life, hence why she's breeding them back into existence with chickens. The movie has an interesting plot but the way it unfolds really leaves you scratching your head sometimes. Like, how on earth did an egg that's bigger than a full grown chicken...come out of a full grown chicken? I guess it kinda looked like the chicken actually exploded due to the size of the egg, but you don't really find out. It's extremely obvious in many scenes that they are literally using a large hand puppet for the dinosaur, simply snapping its jaws up and down at peoples mid sections. I mean hey, it's no classic but its one of those movies you watch when you're a teen and its late at night on the weekends. Wouldn't mind watching it again.

What can I say except that I'm a sucker for a cute dinosaur puppet that is supposed to strike fear into the hearts of *adult* audiences watching this(?) Through a series of unlikely but, of course, since it's a Corman-produced cash-in on Jurassic Park (which had the wherewithal to be released a month *before* that movie came out) we have to buy into it events, a scientist who has been tasked with looking into gene experiments involving chickens somehow (ahem, fixes tie) hatches a plan to... capture a whole lot of local women, inseminate them, and one thing will lead to another through some mumbo jumbo involving gene changes and development and the women will "birth" eggs that have tiny dinosaurs that will rid take back the planet. Simple, right?Why is the dinosaur so cute? It's really about the scale of it, and how Corman's director, Adam Simon, has so little to work with and has to try to make the best of it. According to the IMDb trivia, they didn't have enough money to make a good giant robotic dinosaur (only for a few shots which, I assume, are near the end for that thrilling fight with the construction crane machine), so they mostly used a smaller model and even hand puppets. This is charmingly low- budget, though it does, here and there, try to be a real movie with a plot, which is really silly and at times nonsensical; the main male character starts off as a drunk who tries to ward off protesters trying to stop construction of... something, I don't remember now, and then halfway through the movie he becomes the noble hero who will save everyone from the dinosaurs with the use of his construction cranes.There are some stretches where we're watching dull scenes where the military are trying to figure out what to do - Ned Bellamy, who one might remember from Shawshank Redemption, is the main guy leading that charge which, eventually, will be like scenes from The Crazies on steroids - but when it gets back to the dinosaurs, or Diane Ladd who is acting as if she is in a legitimate movie (that is until near the end which... wow, just, that's amazing), it's a wonderful piece of schlock, full of bloody scenes of carnage that, with a little creative editing, come close to being real action set pieces, and it even goes for a dark ending that whether the movie fully earns it or not it shows chutzpah in not going for the predictable way out. I don't know whether or not Siskel was being tongue-in-cheek with his sincere 'Thumbs up' (really, how many Corman movies, much less those released during the Concorde years, did he praise like that so it could get on the damn box cover), but I know I was laughing nearly until tears during any scene with a dinosaur in it.It's also apparently based on a book which I'd have to assume makes Crichton look like HG Wells.

Beware of Carnosaur! The puppet dinosaur that is obviously and painfully fake! This is easily one of the worst movies ever made. The special effects are horrible, the story is beyond dumb, and it is breathlessly boring. Note that this movie was released to theaters a few weeks before Jurassic Park was. But what really makes me mad about that is because this movie is just a pathetic and terrible rip-off of Jurassic Park that completely fails to offer anything exciting or original, since it basically just steals Jurassic Parks idea but changes it up a little bit. Stay away from this movie. If you watch it, it will ruin your whole day.

Well, I must say that this movie does tickle you in every way possible. The acting was amazing lol. When Raphael Sbarges character is kneeling down when he sees the dying kid on the road, it looks like he is taking a dump on the road!!! lol, the stupid one liners, and extremely fake sneezing really got to me in this movie. Now if the acting doesn't pull you in I tell you the dinosaur effects will! The fake barbie limbs, the inconsistent dino sizes, the colors of the two dinos changed drastically! You can easily tell when its a puppet/man in suit, or animatronic creature. Now the only thing remotely interesting in the movie is its story line. Though a bit far out there, it is quite an interesting catastrophic effect attempt that I don't think we have ever seen. Not only dinosaurs but a deadly fever that spreads rapidly as well. Now if this movie were to have probably 10 million more this would have been a mainstreem movie with more love and credability, now its funny on the VHS cover is says Ebert and Roeper give it thumbs up. Lol I watched the rating on youtube and they both thought the movie was awful but the story was quite interesting and the bad guy (ladd) was something new and exciting.Now i must say that anyone that watches this please do not take it seriously, and don't come in with high hopes. Now if you come in watching the movie with an open mind your going to have a hell of a time!!What I do want to see is a remake of this movie. I'm actually going to type up a story and script for it because I think with the modern technology seeing a new age Carnosaur movie will be something people will want to see, also I think this movie should be a stand alone movie with no sequels. I think the fever idea and dinos will stay but the giving birth will have to go, far far away lol. The characters are pretty good and will need to be developed more. Thats what i think should happen. We haven't had any really new age dino movies