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Dinocroc

 

Picture: C+     Sound: B-     Extras: D     Film: C

 

 

Roger Corman has made more money on more bad films than anyone ever has or will.  He also tries to profit on trends and much larger Hollywood productions.  When Steven Spielberg did Jurassic Park, he answered with Carnosaur.  Sequels followed closely for both.  Costas Mandylor, Bruce Weitz, Joanna Pacula and a large group of unknowns star in Dinocroc, a 2003 film that lives up to the latter half of its title.

 

Yes, somehow for some stupid reason (it always is), an ancient creature has been resurrected (why did it take so long) by accident and is now on the loose.  Too bad it looks phonier than many toy versions of the real life creature.  When it moves, it looks like a bad robot.  When it roars, it sounds like one of those amusement park garbage cans that roar when you remember to throw out garbage.  Even for Corman, this is lame, though it benefits by default from so many major digital productions looking often (sadly) as bad.  This film’s roar has a big yawn hidden in it.  Disney is issuing (and sometimes reissuing) a bunch of Corman film on DVD.  You can do better with Death Race 2000.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is on the soft side and is shot darkly, but even that cannot hide the phoniness of the monster.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo has just enough Pro Logic surrounds to be the highlight of the film.  There are no extras, but you could do better if you must own such a genre film by getting Alligator (especially the DTS PAL Anchor Bay import of both films) or if you can find The Great Alligator (1979) that used a crocodile because the producers could not afford a cheap alligator.  Dinocroc is not as fun as any of those, but someone is bound to laugh at it.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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