Going into this film, you know it is going to be terrible. You expect it to be one of the worst films you will ever have to watch and a good question is why you would ever do so in the first place. So, what makes this a complete surprise is just how agreeable it actually is. Asylum, the producers of all manner of garbage, rarely turn out anything that is any good and yet, this film managed to actually be something you might call watchable. It is a little bit shocking, but as the film moves on from beginning to end, it is actually fairly entertaining.

There are problems with it of course, namely the dialogue and some of the special effects. How could there not be with a production company who is notoriously cheap, but putting that aside, the story is decent and the acting is not all that bad and could have been better if the aforementioned script had been improved upon. Treat Williams is usually good in whatever he does, maybe not Oscar caliber, but good and Jillian Rose Reed from Awkward is always fun to watch and probably the best thing about the whole picture. Some of the dinosaurs were decent looking, like the T-Rex and the Raptors, while others were not, and overall, they were probably some of the best computer generated effects that Asylum has ever put on film. Again, a little shocking to be sure, but they actually made the movie better than most of their films.

The film never won any awards and to be honest, you would never expect it to, but this Jurassic Park rip-off is not the worst thing you will ever see. It is for the most part quite enjoyable and should you sit through it, it is not a film you will actually regret seeing. Age of Dinosaurs may never be worthy of your time, but it will not be a waste of it.

2 out of 5

2015 Edition

First Entry – Trapped in the… – Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Second Entry – Can You Feel the… – Tremors (1990)
Third Entry – Beauty and Danger Collide in… – Viking Women and the Sea Serpent (1957)
Fourth Entry – Dance the Night Away in the… – Village of the Giants (1965)
Fifth Entry – It Was a Time… – When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
Sixth Entry – Do Not Fall Into the Grasp of… – The Giant Claw (1957)
Seventh Entry – Who Knew They Could Give Birth? – Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996)
Eighth Entry – So Many to Choose From – The Loves of Hercules (1960)
Ninth Entry – Should Have Stayed Down Below – Up From the Depths (1979)
Tenth Entry – Snakes On a Boat! – Anaconda (1997)
Eleventh Entry – Think Twice Before You Cheat – Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
Twelfth Entry – Back to the Trough – Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
Thirteenth Entry – Past and Present Collide in… – Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark (2014)
Fourteenth Entry – Mating Season – Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
Fifteenth Entry – A Land Before Time – One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Sixteenth Entry – Battle of the She-Titans – Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader (2012)
Seventeenth Entry – Look Out for The Hoff! – Anaconda 3: The Offspring (2008)
Eighteenth Entry – Impossible Dangers on… – The Lost Continent (1968)
Nineteenth Entry – You Will Wish the Legend Was Over – Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004)
Twentieth Entry – Going Global – Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015)
Twenty-First Entry – They Had Discovered… – The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
Twenty-Second Entry – They Were… – The People that Time Forgot (1977)
Twenty-Third Entry – Dare You Enter… – The Lost World (1960)
Twenty-Fourth Entry – An Evil Queen, a Cyclops and Muscle Men – Maciste nella terra dei Ciclopi (1961)

Last Year’s Creatures…

Giant Monster Gamera (1965)
The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
Tarantula (1955)
Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Gamera vs. Viras (1968)
The Cyclops (1957)
Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)
Monsters (2010)
Gamera vs. Jiger (1970)
The Killer Shrews (1959)
Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)
The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Space Monster Gamera (1980)
King Dinosaur (1955)
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
The Black Scorpion (1957)
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)
Them! (1954)
Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris (1999)
The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
Gamera the Brave (2006)
Frankenstein Conquers the World (1966)