Dinosaur Island -1994-

Movie Review: Dinosaur Island (1994)

A Scrappy, Sci-Fi Anime Adventure from a Bygone Era

Direction: Directed by Jim Wynorski and Fred Olen Ray, two icons of low-budget independent filmmaking known for their ability to deliver entertaining films on shoestring budgets. Dinosaur Island -1994-

If you booted up the MS-DOS version (the Commodore Amiga port is legendary for its buggy AI), you were greeted with a pixel-art EGA title screen: a T-Rex wearing what appears to be aviator sunglasses standing atop a volcano. The manual, all twelve photocopied pages, set the scene: Movie Review: Dinosaur Island (1994) A Scrappy, Sci-Fi

The Premise The story centers on a group of students from the "Space Honor Guard" who are traveling aboard a massive spaceship. Through a series of mishaps involving a stowaway and a turbulent "dimensional storm," the ship crash-lands on a mysterious planet. This planet turns out to be a prehistoric preserve—a literal Dinosaur Island. Through a series of mishaps involving a stowaway