Stew Hvidston Australian, but close enough :D Doesn't the jelly melt, though? Or do you guys call jelly "jello", then call jam "jelly"? I think I heard that once.
Actually, the version that is used in Brandon's review, although the packaging clearly states that the film is rated 'G', is the International Version of the film. You can thank Warners for being highly observant on this one. After Warners found out the mistake that was made with the release, they pulled all copies still on shelves, but later released the same incorrect G-Rated version alongside another Hammer film, Moon Zero Two, on a double feature DVD set. I don't know if those were pulled off shelves also. When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth is getting a Blu-ray release on February 28. They're releasing it Uncut and just to make sure that people know that it's not the G-rated cut this time, they're adding a disclaimer that reads: "This edition of WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH is the original International Theatrical release version which contains nudity."
MrCarter0975 They kind of made the same cock-up with the DVD release of Swamp Thing. Despite receiving a G rating for its release, it still contained nudity in it.
fake is G rating had different standards back when th is film was made including violence and nudity.. which is one reason they created PG-13. what would now be consider PG-13 was back down just pg and what is now thought to be PG was G go figure. A Movie has to work hard to get that X rating
@@Marveryn 2001: A Space Odyssey and True Grit were also rated G back then. There's no way either of those movies would keep that rating now, but in the case of Space Odyssey I'd say it's fairly justified - not much in the way of explicit content I can remember. But oh wait it has apes beating up other apes and HAL asphyxiating people so never mind? On the other hand, Midnight Cowboy was given an X-rating by the filmmakers due to a psychologist warning that it could encourage kids to be gay. It was quickly re-rated R after its Oscar wins.
It's great to see that an actually good movie with great special effects doesn't prevent Brandon from being hilarious with it. Great job Brandon! Er, I mean, AKITA!
Jim Danforth did the stop motion, but Brian Johnson [credited Brian Johncock] also helped with special effects for this film. Brian Johnson went on to work on Dragonslayer, Alien, and The Empire Strikes Back.
I was just saying to my friend the other day how it's a bummer dinosaur movies aren't made anymore. Are there any modern dinosaur movies besides Jurassic Park that aren't low budget direct to video crap? Seems weird to me. There are tons of movies every year about aliens or ghosts (or any horror trope villain), and superheros and the list goes on. WE NEED MORE DINOSAUR MOVIES. We need a DINORIDERS FRANCHISE.
Maybe that was supposed to be the tyrannosaur in the original script before the head of Hammer went NO BENG GAYf and changed it? Makes no sense for a plant eater to do that.
Well, speaking of the Tyrannosaurus, apparently it was scheduled to duel with the Chasmosaurus. There's a one second piece of footage of the battle in the kiddie documentary Dinosaurs: Fun, Fact, and Fantasy.
I did a little research and the uncut version of this film was accidentally released with the G rating. It's considered a collector's item now so who knows, maybe you can make a little money off it.
You've got a copy of the original UK "A" rated version, which at the time had just changed from "Some local councils can insist that children must be accompanied by an adult" to "Children over 5 admitted, but parents might find some scenes unsuitable for the under 14s". The US and some Scandinavian versions were cut of all the nudity and the sex scene.
A movie filled with nearly nude, fit young men. Scenes that could easily appear in a gay, BDSM film (see 12:45)... ...but "NO" to the "gay" Tyrannosaurus Rex. Go figure.
Is that the one where smurfette gives Handy a smurf job while he's smurfing her smurfhole and ends with a village wide smurfy and she gets smurfkakke'd?
Yeah, about that G rating. If you got the same DVD I did, which pairs it with Moon Zero Two, it was a misprint, and they actually ended up pulling them from the shelves because of the mistake.
Damn, that music is a bit melodramatic isn't it? Also, have you ever considered doing "Zombie Flesh Eaters"? I feel like that film would be right up your alley!
Just one minor criticism - the dinosaur at 8:53 is not Tyrannosaurus Rex, but Tarbosaurus Bataar (its just that the picture was made by one of my favourite illustrators). Gotta say that monsters look good in this movie.
Will we have a good harvest this year? AKITA! Will my mate give me a boy or girl child? AKITA!! What breed of dog is that? Husky! The actress playing Sana had to lobby to be included in the film initially and her agent added a whole bunch of riders to her contract after they agreed. Hopefully, you ALSO believe in the "Sana Clause".
I'm 1970 there rating of PG didn't exist. It was GP. It still stood for "parental guidance". They changed it to PG in 1972, which made more sense anyway.
Interesting how they knew to make the tides drop as a prelude to the tsunami. That's the most scientific-accuracy the movie has. And I bet the new moon is why the tsunami happened too, at least in the script.
Damn, the stop-motion here is outstanding. Must find the full movie. Thanks for reviewing this! Had not heard of it. But seriously....why O fking WHY use that crappy stock footage??!?
Bryan Davis To save money. Due to budget, a lot of planned sequences were cut, including a scene with giant ants attacking a village. This film cost a lot more to make than "One Million Years B.C.", so they had to use stock footage due to the budget. The film's vultures are also stock footage.
The producer of WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH was a woman, Adia Young. She said that she didn't want any "poofer" dinosaurs. Poofer is British slang for gay. Insert the Monty Python Bruce's sketch here. "NO POOFERS".
Wow, I already had "Can you fly, you sucker!?" in my head by 6:55; I guess that's to be expected having watched the first Tremors around 300 times by this point in my life.
14:00 Actually, a direct sequel to this movie was planned, called "Dinosaur Girl". I believe Sanna's dinosaur family would return and many other new creatures would be introduced as well, but Hammer instead decided to make the creature-less "Creatures the World Forgot" instead, which is a shame. I would've loved to have seen more of Victoria Vetri (clothed and unclothed) and Jim Danforth's Award nominated animation.
love your channel. Hopefully you will do more kung fu movies. of course, not just your run of the mill ones, but things like shaolin drunkard, riki Oh, flash future kung fu (personal fave), and so on. I gotta say you make one of the best review shows on the web, and there are a lot of great ones out there to say the least ......this being one of them, obviously hahaha.keep up the awesome work , nd be on the look out for my project coming to the web . hopefully I can have you be on that. Cheers!
1:09 you're absolutely right also throw in robots, aliens, dragons, and some fucking soldiers and we've got the perfect boys film (although it could work as a film for everyone)
The UK CInema version was the full uncut version, and kids could go and see that as it was only rated A (equivliant to a PG)...resulting in a few disgruntled letters to the Censors from shocked parents!
This is one of those childhood favorites of mine that still remains in my favorites, a real rare gem - I probably wouldn't put it in my top 100 or 150, but it would make the top 200 out of 300 (hey, if EMPIRE Magazine can create a Top 300, why can't I?) Technically speaking, the film is really a fantasy, but does belong to straight-forward science-fiction as an example of a sci-fi sub-genre called "prehistoric romance", which like QUEST FOR FIRE and the EARTH'S CHILDREN series by Jean M. Auel, attempts to depict a time in the life of primitive hominids long before the invention of history, when the hominids made a discovery or breakthrough development that led to their gradual rise above brutish instinctual living and on the path to early civilization. Yes, it has dinosaurs and humans co-existing, but the fantasy elements don't really intrude on the human story-line, and yes, despite the cast of humans being played by contemporary semi-nude actors without ape makeup and, uh, much attire, there is some earnest attempt to depict primitive human life (and this is coming from a guy who's not a creationist!). That being said, I guess I'll go on record saying that while ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. may be considered the quintessential dinosaur-and-cavegirl flick, I actually like this one a lot better (and even Leonard Maltin said the same in his Film-Video Guide, giving this the full three stars over ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.'s two-and-a-half!). Co-writer and director Val Guest (who also did THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE and the first two QUATERMASS films for Hammer, and was one of the five directors for the James Bond spoof of CASINO ROYALE with Peter Sellers) disowned this due to some difficulties involving some incidents in principal photography shooting and lack of post-production editing control, saying its his worst film out of a long filmmaking career, but it's not bad at all. It has a haunting score by Mario Nascimbene, the acting is convincing (despite a 44-word vocabulary that would be limiting), the non-stock-footage stop-motion animation by Jim Danforth is still impressive (love the mama dinosaur, Ramphorhynchus and Elasmosaurus the best!), and there is a pretty neat story involving the early emergence of the moon and how the connection between the characters was affected by this change. And despite Victoria Vetri's more recent crime, which shocked me upon first reading it online, I will admit that this Playboy Playmate being in this movie (who was actually brunette and also had already been a seasoned actress, appearing in ROSEMARY'S BABY and many TV series including STAR TREK and THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., credited sometimes under the pseudonym Angela Dorian) was responsible for a lot of my giddy teenage fantasies apart from Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jessica Biel. I actually got the WB DVD release which put WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH's international unrated version with MOON ZERO TWO shortly before it was pulled off the shelves, although the unrated version had already been uploaded online prior to its release. Now knowing that the unrated version of WDRTE will finally get a Blu-Ray release alone, I have much reason to celebrate.
"Didnt add a T-Rex because it looks gay." Sounds like my boss. Hell he commented using a print with a half naked lady in front of a blue and purple background with "Looks like a gay bar ad."
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"Akita!"
*"I am Groot?"*
"Akita!"
*"I am Groot!"*
"AKITA!"
*"I AM Groooooooot!"*
munstrumridcully I’m Batman
Not funny
very funny
I am iron man !
@@thedust0622 I Am The Walrus!
"Homophobic to a T-Rex" Never thought a sentence like that can be convinced.
so... how did the producer phrase it? "this T-Rex is gay"?
Akita
I thick The T-Rex could have been awesome with Sanna, If they put it in for not been a gay figure or is it just them.
You mean conceived?
Me either
Ketchup and mustard.
Peanutbutter and jelly.
Cookies and milk.
Brandon T. and dinosaurs.
Lol
No truer comparison has been made.
Stew Hvidston ye- wait, peanut butter and jelly?!
You've never heard of a PB&J? Must be European lol you should try it, it's basically the national school lunch of America
Stew Hvidston Australian, but close enough :D
Doesn't the jelly melt, though? Or do you guys call jelly "jello", then call jam "jelly"? I think I heard that once.
11:56
"Okay, so I'm going to be burned, drowned, AND eaten by a Plesiosaur?! THIS IS JUST NOT MY DAY!"
To be fair, it is a Rhamphorynchus like in "Legend of the Dinosaurs", so the music fits perfectly.
Actually, the version that is used in Brandon's review, although the packaging clearly states that the film is rated 'G', is the International Version of the film. You can thank Warners for being highly observant on this one. After Warners found out the mistake that was made with the release, they pulled all copies still on shelves, but later released the same incorrect G-Rated version alongside another Hammer film, Moon Zero Two, on a double feature DVD set. I don't know if those were pulled off shelves also.
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth is getting a Blu-ray release on February 28. They're releasing it Uncut and just to make sure that people know that it's not the G-rated cut this time, they're adding a disclaimer that reads: "This edition of WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH is the original International Theatrical release version which contains nudity."
MrCarter0975 They kind of made the same cock-up with the DVD release of Swamp Thing. Despite receiving a G rating for its release, it still contained nudity in it.
fake is G rating had different standards back when th is film was made including violence and nudity.. which is one reason they created PG-13. what would now be consider PG-13 was back down just pg and what is now thought to be PG was G go figure. A Movie has to work hard to get that X rating
@@Marveryn 2001: A Space Odyssey and True Grit were also rated G back then. There's no way either of those movies would keep that rating now, but in the case of Space Odyssey I'd say it's fairly justified - not much in the way of explicit content I can remember. But oh wait it has apes beating up other apes and HAL asphyxiating people so never mind?
On the other hand, Midnight Cowboy was given an X-rating by the filmmakers due to a psychologist warning that it could encourage kids to be gay. It was quickly re-rated R after its Oscar wins.
I can confirm, my blu-ray copy of the film has 2 nude scenes
@@popstarbillysexcrime5656 "HOW nude?" "Umm-- NUDE nude!" Joe & Brian Hackett / "WINGS"
I translated "Akita.". ends up it means "smurf."
Stop motion in this movie looks great.
Mathy Don it kinda feels like cgi wich is good
Well as I always say " Every Pterodactyl needs a theme song"
Hmm... Dinosaurs made as great as Sir HarryHausen, Hot cavewomen AND a crazy story? Definitely gotta watch this soon
Man, writing the dialog for this movie must have been a snap: "Hmmmm... let's see 'Akita. Akita.' I'm a genius! Best original screenplay here I come."
An Akita is a dog breed originating from Japan. I think the writer just loved this type of dog.
It's probably the only word that the writer could think of at the time, apparently every spouts out akita for every sentence. it's so stupid
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It's great to see that an actually good movie with great special effects doesn't prevent Brandon from being hilarious with it. Great job Brandon! Er, I mean, AKITA!
Cesar The Salad Akita! (Agreed)
Akita is like saying Kree from Stargate SG.
Do you think Mr. Bush decided to change his name to Richard because he was so tired of the jokes that came with him being called Harry.
Jim Danforth did the stop motion, but Brian Johnson [credited Brian Johncock] also helped with special effects for this film. Brian Johnson went on to work on Dragonslayer, Alien, and The Empire Strikes Back.
I was just saying to my friend the other day how it's a bummer dinosaur movies aren't made anymore. Are there any modern dinosaur movies besides Jurassic Park that aren't low budget direct to video crap? Seems weird to me. There are tons of movies every year about aliens or ghosts (or any horror trope villain), and superheros and the list goes on. WE NEED MORE DINOSAUR MOVIES. We need a DINORIDERS FRANCHISE.
The newer King Kong movies would be another relatively modern big budget movie with dinosaurs in it.
Prehysteria?
I love the "Disco Pterosaur" running gag
6:00 Alright show of hands, how many of you paused here?
Rasies hand.
raise my hand. had to stop rewind several time cause it the translation happen to fast
Raised hand!
Amazing how one word with three syllables can say so much...
*Raises hand*
Sanna’s actress should be getting out of jail sometime next year. She’s been in jail since 2011 after shooting her husband.
6:18 That is one pretty impressive SFX.
Probably the only movie back in the day to feature a Chasmosaurus.
Huh I'm surpised anyone besides me recognised it since most people would've just mistook it for a triceratops.
Hewy Toonmore Yup, and that was actually the only Dinosaur in the entire movie.
I thought it was a Torosaurus, now I feel stupid.
Maybe that was supposed to be the tyrannosaur in the original script before the head of Hammer went NO BENG GAYf and changed it? Makes no sense for a plant eater to do that.
Well, speaking of the Tyrannosaurus, apparently it was scheduled to duel with the Chasmosaurus. There's a one second piece of footage of the battle in the kiddie documentary Dinosaurs: Fun, Fact, and Fantasy.
"akita" in spanish = "here it is " in english
I did a little research and the uncut version of this film was accidentally released with the G rating. It's considered a collector's item now so who knows, maybe you can make a little money off it.
They seem enamoured with the adorable akita dog breed
You've got a copy of the original UK "A" rated version, which at the time had just changed from "Some local councils can insist that children must be accompanied by an adult" to "Children over 5 admitted, but parents might find some scenes unsuitable for the under 14s". The US and some Scandinavian versions were cut of all the nudity and the sex scene.
10:38 that's a pretty nice shot actually
and it's rated "G"! "G" for "Gratuitous" 😮
The use of dialogue from "The Warriors" as subtitles was awesome. Thank you for that little gem.
6:00 that great joke, made my day, like many others.
A movie filled with nearly nude, fit young men. Scenes that could easily appear in a gay, BDSM film (see 12:45)...
...but "NO" to the "gay" Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Go figure.
"Akita! Akita!" Was there an episode of The Smurfs called "The Smurf Who Smurfed Smurf" or did I imagine that?
Is that the one where smurfette gives Handy a smurf job while he's smurfing her smurfhole and ends with a village wide smurfy and she gets smurfkakke'd?
random guy then she got Smurfed up
"Charleton Heston's ass considered fun for the whole family" LOL!!!
It's convienant that you just so happened to post this on my birthday of all days.
Thanks Brandon! ;)
Happy Birthday, Cole!
Cole Robinson-Boivin happy birthday to
Another Cole!
Your name is Cole too?
Cole Robinson-Boivin hah it is! Always weird and fun to run into another!
Yeah, about that G rating. If you got the same DVD I did, which pairs it with Moon Zero Two, it was a misprint, and they actually ended up pulling them from the shelves because of the mistake.
Nominated for Oscar Effects！
YOU'RE THE BEST FOR THIS BRANDON, THIS IS WHY YOU'RE MY FAVORITE TH-camR
Damn, that music is a bit melodramatic isn't it?
Also, have you ever considered doing "Zombie Flesh Eaters"? I feel like that film would be right up your alley!
Just one minor criticism - the dinosaur at 8:53 is not Tyrannosaurus Rex, but Tarbosaurus Bataar (its just that the picture was made by one of my favourite illustrators).
Gotta say that monsters look good in this movie.
Well at least it had actual dinosaurs. Pretty well rendered dinosaurs at that!
The effects were top notch
Will we have a good harvest this year? AKITA!
Will my mate give me a boy or girl child? AKITA!!
What breed of dog is that? Husky!
The actress playing Sana had to lobby to be included in the film initially and her agent added a whole bunch of riders to her contract after they agreed. Hopefully, you ALSO believe in the "Sana Clause".
Haha another great one Brandon!
Love when you tackle these old dinosaur movies :)
But kids should also watch "Zootopia" because it's great!
I'm 1970 there rating of PG didn't exist. It was GP. It still stood for "parental guidance". They changed it to PG in 1972, which made more sense anyway.
This is one of your most epic reviews, well done!
Fun review! Danforth's stop motion is flawless!
Angus Lamont Agreed. I'll take this over CGI anyday.
Interesting how they knew to make the tides drop as a prelude to the tsunami. That's the most scientific-accuracy the movie has. And I bet the new moon is why the tsunami happened too, at least in the script.
Damn, the stop-motion here is outstanding. Must find the full movie. Thanks for reviewing this! Had not heard of it.
But seriously....why O fking WHY use that crappy stock footage??!?
Bryan Davis To save money. Due to budget, a lot of planned sequences were cut, including a scene with giant ants attacking a village. This film cost a lot more to make than "One Million Years B.C.", so they had to use stock footage due to the budget. The film's vultures are also stock footage.
Coming soon Brandon 's cult movie reviews: The valley of gwangi
"That's right, this movie doens't have a t-rex because the head of Hammer was homophobic towards a dinosaur." - Brandon Tenold
I guess "Akita" is this movie's version of "I am Groot".
9:56 That music actually works better with this film.
Always liked the blur effect on the wings of the flying reptile.
The producer of WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH was a woman, Adia Young. She said that she didn't want any "poofer" dinosaurs. Poofer is British slang for gay. Insert the Monty Python Bruce's sketch here. "NO POOFERS".
Richard Sweeney that's poofter not poofer lol
Wow, I already had "Can you fly, you sucker!?" in my head by 6:55; I guess that's to be expected having watched the first Tremors around 300 times by this point in my life.
The stop motion and dino models look great. Your subtitles are funny
Do Caveman with Ringo Starr.
1:14 Heh heh, "tip." I am so mature.
HoopsAndDinoMan funny seeing you here.
Goodness gracious, a Clone High reference. I love you, man.
6:00 Hmm, I think the subtitles may be incorrect in that. : P
Wow, the creature effects in this are pretty damn good.
12:05 YOU MANIACS!!! YOU BLEW IT UP!!!
14:00 Actually, a direct sequel to this movie was planned, called "Dinosaur Girl". I believe Sanna's dinosaur family would return and many other new creatures would be introduced as well, but Hammer instead decided to make the creature-less "Creatures the World Forgot" instead, which is a shame. I would've loved to have seen more of Victoria Vetri (clothed and unclothed) and Jim Danforth's Award nominated animation.
Concidering one of the earliest achievements of man was the domestication of dogs, Akita seems to be a fitting start for our collective vocabulary.
Jim Danforth? I knew that Plesiosaur looked familiar, he worked on "The Crater Lake Monster", too!
Adiraiju Looks like somebody did his homework! :)
There is actually only one dinosaur in this film! The three-horned chasmosaurus!
That opening song was strait up dark souls sounding
I hope the beast of 20,000 fathoms survived in this movie
11:18 ...Must... Resist... The... Meme...
AKITA!!!! AKITA TORYAMA!!!!
is there a Turkish 50 shades of grey?
Fun Fact: J.G. Ballard wrote Empire of the Sun, which is based on his own experiences as a child in a Japanese POW camp.
6:01 that elicited a genuine LOL.
Fantastic Dinosaur of the Movies made this movie look so epic...
My parents took me to see this in the theater when it came out
'Caveman' with Ringo Starr used dialogue without the word "Akita."
Massacre in Dinosaur Valley betrayal: Never Forget! - Brandon Tenold.
We need Planet of Dinosaurs from Brandon.
CybertronianDestron I agree. It's a film that used its low budget well to bring us some of the best-looking dinosaurs in movie history.
The only son of Godzilla that is cute and can come from a egg is little Godzilla
from the 1992 Mechagodzilla film? hell yes!
It was 1993 actually, 1992 was ' Godzilla vs Mothra Battle for Earth '.
KaijuPrince1968 wait what? I thought that that came before Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla 2
The heisei series is so confusing
Halo,Godzilla and gaming Debates what? You mean time travel paradoxes and space Godzilla isn't simple to understand?
6:01 hilarious!!!
Brandon, don't forget Creatures the World Forgot (1971), the end of the Hammer Cave Girl trilogy
yeeeeeeeees !!!!! I heard so many times of this movie in specialized magazines and books ! So glad you made a review of it !
love your channel. Hopefully you will do more kung fu movies. of course, not just your run of the mill ones, but things like shaolin drunkard, riki Oh, flash future kung fu (personal fave), and so on. I gotta say you make one of the best review shows on the web, and there are a lot of great ones out there to say the least ......this being one of them, obviously hahaha.keep up the awesome work , nd be on the look out for my project coming to the web . hopefully I can have you be on that. Cheers!
1:09 you're absolutely right also throw in robots, aliens, dragons, and some fucking soldiers and we've got the perfect boys film (although it could work as a film for everyone)
this movie was on television quite regularly when I was growing up normally on channel 4 (uk) on a Sunday
With the nudity?
HeirofAzaran not so sure , probably not knowing what television was like back then .
For what I am admiring the movie which is When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth is actually a cheesy sequel to One Million Years B.C.
6:01 When subtitles are just titles, because there's nothing sub about them anymore. Also, most accurate one so far.
Thank you for the Clone High audio gag.
Fan fact. The opening is the island of Tenerife. Which happens to be where I live.
Can you please review "Evil Toons","island of fire" and "Schlock"?
Okay love you are reviewing this one. This film is easily one of my biggest guilty pleasures, and I didn't even know about the nude scenes! :D
ok so every plesiosaur ya see has to have a funky beat I bet the loch Ness monster has be funky too
The UK CInema version was the full uncut version, and kids could go and see that as it was only rated A (equivliant to a PG)...resulting in a few disgruntled letters to the Censors from shocked parents!
Should have had this at school for movie day!
3:20 *Caveman talk*
Fox McCloud: “WHAT?!”
Stegolophasaurus (stegosaurus+dilophasaurus)
I am disappointed she literally took shelter in an egg and no SHELLter joke
"You haven't even smelled his fingers yet!" Hahaha... Gross
The beast of 20000 fathoms in this movie appears to be a giant nundasuchus
This is one of those childhood favorites of mine that still remains in my favorites, a real rare gem - I probably wouldn't put it in my top 100 or 150, but it would make the top 200 out of 300 (hey, if EMPIRE Magazine can create a Top 300, why can't I?)
Technically speaking, the film is really a fantasy, but does belong to straight-forward science-fiction as an example of a sci-fi sub-genre called "prehistoric romance", which like QUEST FOR FIRE and the EARTH'S CHILDREN series by Jean M. Auel, attempts to depict a time in the life of primitive hominids long before the invention of history, when the hominids made a discovery or breakthrough development that led to their gradual rise above brutish instinctual living and on the path to early civilization. Yes, it has dinosaurs and humans co-existing, but the fantasy elements don't really intrude on the human story-line, and yes, despite the cast of humans being played by contemporary semi-nude actors without ape makeup and, uh, much attire, there is some earnest attempt to depict primitive human life (and this is coming from a guy who's not a creationist!).
That being said, I guess I'll go on record saying that while ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. may be considered the quintessential dinosaur-and-cavegirl flick, I actually like this one a lot better (and even Leonard Maltin said the same in his Film-Video Guide, giving this the full three stars over ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.'s two-and-a-half!). Co-writer and director Val Guest (who also did THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE and the first two QUATERMASS films for Hammer, and was one of the five directors for the James Bond spoof of CASINO ROYALE with Peter Sellers) disowned this due to some difficulties involving some incidents in principal photography shooting and lack of post-production editing control, saying its his worst film out of a long filmmaking career, but it's not bad at all. It has a haunting score by Mario Nascimbene, the acting is convincing (despite a 44-word vocabulary that would be limiting), the non-stock-footage stop-motion animation by Jim Danforth is still impressive (love the mama dinosaur, Ramphorhynchus and Elasmosaurus the best!), and there is a pretty neat story involving the early emergence of the moon and how the connection between the characters was affected by this change. And despite Victoria Vetri's more recent crime, which shocked me upon first reading it online, I will admit that this Playboy Playmate being in this movie (who was actually brunette and also had already been a seasoned actress, appearing in ROSEMARY'S BABY and many TV series including STAR TREK and THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., credited sometimes under the pseudonym Angela Dorian) was responsible for a lot of my giddy teenage fantasies apart from Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jessica Biel.
I actually got the WB DVD release which put WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH's international unrated version with MOON ZERO TWO shortly before it was pulled off the shelves, although the unrated version had already been uploaded online prior to its release. Now knowing that the unrated version of WDRTE will finally get a Blu-Ray release alone, I have much reason to celebrate.
"Didnt add a T-Rex because it looks gay." Sounds like my boss. Hell he commented using a print with a half naked lady in front of a blue and purple background with "Looks like a gay bar ad."