Thread:Carnotaur/@comment-35435751-20180921181537

My movie and book reviews:

Carnosaur 2(1995) R

Oh man... This is going to be fun. Last review, I did Jurassic Park itself. Now its time for the sequel Carnosaur: Carnosaur 2! AKA Carnosaurus, Carnosaurus: attack of the Raptors, Carnosaurus 2, and Carnosaur park. Don't get you hopes up on the last one, there's no park in the entire series. Now before I begin, I have to say, this move has a beautiful and extensive history. Even more than the first. So sit back, grab a bag of chocolate drizzled popcorn, and get ready for CARNOSAUR 2!

HISTORY

Our story starts around 1977 when Roger Corman was selected to write the script for Alien(1979). However, he was replaced, and he understandably got ticked the heck off. He later went on to create Alien nock-offs like, Galaxy of terror, and Dead space. Well, many years later in 1993, Roger Corman heard of a Spielberg production that was to be released in the next several months. This made Corman think hard; what can I use to make this movie just as interesting as this this Jurassic Park"? Then he came up with it: base it off a novel. So what he did, was take the main basis and name from a book called Carnosaur, and turn it into a film. The film made good money for how cheap it really was! Two years later in 1995, Roger knew it was time for a sequel: Carnosaur 2. He started production in the film long before the JP sequel in 97'. Roger decided it was time to mix together two things: Dinosaurs, and Alien. Eventually, the movie got itself a theatrical release, as well as straight to home video. Little did Roger know, this movie going to be the pinnacle of his series, and would be considered by many to be the best carnosaur film EVER... Ok, that was a little dramatic...

INTERMISSION

I find C2 to be very different from its counter parts. Why is this? Well, because it mixes the aspect of Dinosaurs with Aliens. Carnosaur 2 is not a rip-off TLWJP, it is infact a retelling of the 80's sci-fi sequel: Aliens

PLOT

Ok, so lets get started. The main plot revolves around a group of "Special army people", who find where the last of Tiptrees Chicken-mutants have been stored: in a uranium mine of all places. What is different about this movie, is that the Dinosaurs look REAL. I know you guys are thinking: "the first ones Dinosaurs looked like puppets! How is that?" well the answer is Dinosaur suits. Yep I said it dinosaur SUITS. They used the old Deinonychus body from the old film and replaced its head with a "Raptor" head. And these things are smart just like JP Raptors. There is also the Tyrannosaurus from the first film, but is supposed to be another animal. But I digress. The story is pretty much Aliens with Raptors instead of Xenomorphs, and a Rex instead of the hive queen(please correct me if that's the wrong name please). The group is continually killed off, and so are the Dinosaurs. One problem with the movie's plot is that it doesn't really connect to the other film, except that the Dinosaurs were other possibly other mutations Tiptree created, that were not killed in the first one. In fact, she is not even mentioned at all in the movie. Nor is the deadly virus that haunted the small town two years back.

CHARACTERS

This films characters are just a heap off stereotypes really. But I do find enjoyment in what others call the worst character in the movie: Monk. Monk is one the last ones to die in the film, and is VERY annoying. So much, that you wish him a horrible doom. Except my twisted backwards self, who likes whatever everybody loves and vice-versa. I kind of find him funny actually. But I shouldn't say much more, because I can hear you shouting and grabbing your pitch forks. Sorry to YouTube's movie reviewers, I DONT MIND MONK! I will now continue... Pretty much, the characters aren't that interesting, and are bland. But that doesn't matter because we like our killer chickens better. Right?

MY FAVORITE SCENE

Well my favorite scene is kind of hard to pick out. Now that I think about it, my favorite scene is where a hacker is attacked by the Raptor. He is just sitting there, and puts his fists up, and the Raptor literally SMACKS this nerd, and proceeds to beat the ever living crap out of him. I can just hear the creature saying: "BRAKE YOURSELF!"

THE JP TIE-INS

1. The Velociraptors in the film screech in a tone very similar to our JP birds of prey. They also show advanced intelligence. 2. One of the many names of this film is Carnosaur park, implying there is a park of Dinosaurs. However this is not the case, and it was a most likely a marketing stunt by someone outside of the production company.

NOTE

I have to say this movie is good, and in some ways better than the first one. Maybe one day, ill see it as better than the original. But it is nothing to the other sequel I'm about to review.

Verdict: This is a very cool movie. So for it being so, I give it a 3 and a half, out of 5

Next up: The lost world: Jurassic park! 