Theodore Rex (1995)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Great Film overall

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

This was one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. Why'd they change the Bottom 100 on this website? This would definitely be on the list. This movie features Whoopi Goldberg teaming up with a dinosaur to solve crimes. It's slightly worse than it sounds. At least it's not THAT worse than it sounds. I don't know why this was in Leonard Maltin's movie guide, as he said it went to video. It must have seen some theaters. It's a world where dinosaurs have come back as clones. The movie opens by showing that a dinosaur was murdered by an exploding butterfly. Yes, Whoopi and Teddy Rex go to this place where they meet this hunchback toy thing and a toy or living caterpillar that is one of the exploding butterflies. It's all a plot by a guy who wants to cause another ice age to recreate the world.Can you believe this actually happened? Goldberg's a good actress but even she was annoying in this. This is to say nothing of Teddy Rex, where they try to milk the joke of his tail hitting stuff. The henchman are these weird guys with dreadlocks and red eyes that sound like gremlins. And if that wasn't enough, they throw in three fart jokes. This is a really stupid movie that everyone should really just forget. *

On many occasions, depending on my mood and what kind of a day I've had, I look for known bad movies for the fun of laughing at the result. I've seen the silly shark movies, and I'm a fan of Plan 9. But this movie doesn't even rise to that level. It's awful. The dinosaur costume is cute, but the script is constantly trying to be clever (and fails), the premise could have been clever (but failed), and the story -- no, that didn't even have the potential for failure. Until now, I've loved any movie with dinosaurs, no matter how bad. Until now. It must be hard to make a movie that can't even entertain fans of bad movies. Maybe we should give them credit for that, I don't know. By the way, Whoopie Goldberg didn't want to do this thing. She was forced to because of a lawsuit. Maybe the whole point was to punish her for something we don't know about. If so, her attorney should have appealed to the "cruel and unusual punishment" clause.

Theodore Rex is apparently much hated; some people have given it a 10-star rating, but I'm going to go with sarcasm on their parts. However, over half the people who've rated this gave it a 1. I suspect this is as much an effort to put this movie into the bottom 100 as anything else. The movie is not that bad. It isn't wonderful either, but it isn't abominable. I liked it as a kid, and while it isn't a masterpiece, it is watchable as a kid at least. It was a mediocre movie, but I thought it was fun.That being said, don't think this is some amazing movie. It isn't. It is watchable and mediocre, but there are lots of better movies around. But it definitely doesn't deserve a 1. This movie may not be mind-blowing, but it isn't the Land Before Time XI or Plan 9 From Outer Space. It is better than a lot of the insipid romantic comedies starring Jennifer Lopez. But its below the level of high quality entertainment.I'd not recommend buying it, but watching it once isn't a loss.

I was babysitting a family of three small children for a night and their mother gave me this to show for them having just grabbed it at Wal-Mart earlier in the week. All three children actually got physically ill while watching it. I'm pretty sure it was the pizza they ate, or something they all had picked up from school, but really it could have been this film. Absolutely disgusting. How any one can produce this caliber of trash is beyond me. Fortunately, I turned off the film when I noticed the children were not responding and acting strangely. For any parents out there, I strongly advise you to refrain from letting young children view this movie.