Pterodactyl (2005)

Simply A Masterpiece

I wanted to but couldn't!

Boring

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

There's not one saving grace to this Sci-Fi production, only that it was an unintentionally hilarious experience. From beginning to end, this movie is full of clichés, bad acting, and terrible effects. Coolio is despicable as the leader of the U.S. mercenary team (making me wish him dead) and Cameron Dado is unbelievable as a professor. The clichés range from the characters (stuck up blonde chick, the geek, and the bickering couple) to the bad guy. The Pterodactyls are poorly animated, and when they're breaking through the cabin, I could not stop laughing -- and with the lady mercenary slowly dying, her lines were laughable as well.All in all, there's not one good thing in this film. The dialogue is really stupid, the story is unoriginal, and the pacing is all over the place, making it hilariously bad. I could only recommend this as background noise; while this isn't Sci-Fi's worst film ever, it really is up in that list.

not, not, not recommended due for multiple raisons. first is the gore; what happens to human beings in this flick is not pretty. then the general stupid tone, such as commandos and terrorists standing straight up and firing automatic weapons at each other from about 20 yards (some of them do fall, eventually). the dialog is clichemeful and the plot is identical to a hundred others of the genre. as for the cast, the brightest non-star is one Mircea Monroe, a quite beautiful young thing what looks strikingly like Natalie 'Dixie Chick' Maines.the main reason for watching such as this is the monster, and the sfx in this are much lower than Jurassic Park level.try catching the original Gojira, or, if you like monsters aloft, Rodan. do yourself a favor and skip Pterodactyl.

My God, how much worse can it get? The Sci-Fi Channel is cranking these crapola flicks out at the rate of one a week, and it shows. This one features cartoon-ish pterosaurs coming back to life after a volcano in Turkey and attacking everything that moves, including a group of scientists and various army types. The sets consist of an open field and a wooded thicket, plus the prehistoric birds' mountain aerie. The field and forest sets are used over and over and over again. Virtually everyone is picked off by film's end, and we don't care about any of them. And I didn't think it could get any worse than that SS DEATHTROOPER abortion. I was wrong.

Let's start with the one good thing about this movie, the premise. This could have been a great Dino flick, right up there with "Q the Winged Serpent" or even the "Jurassic Park" films. However, the producer chose to go the cheap ass, very cheap ass, route and make a great premise into one of the worse horror, adventure, action films ever made. I think Jason Vorheese would have killed himself over this one. Anyway, i am getting off target. The Pteradactyls looked REALLY fake, which detracted from what little enjoyment there was from the film. The acting was simply beyond description. You know the acting is bad when Coolio is the high spot for acting. Had this film been in the hands of a skilled director and producer and effects house, it would have benefited greatly. The blood and guts, oddly enough, were quite well done, but that was about all.I should mention that the best moment in the film is when the whinny spoiled brat of a blond bimbo gets offed. Why do films like this always have to put a character in that needs to get offed? Do movie makers really think that the movie going audience is that stupid.My advice is to avoid this film at all costs. However, if you want some good laughs and groans, pop it into the DVD player and wonder "what the hell were these people thinking?"