So someone(director Philip Mora perhaps?) had the idea to make a movie where a lady gets turned into a pterodactyl and that was it. No actual plot("white man bad, Indians good, get revenge" pretty much sums that up) was thought up, no discernible characters were imagined and no jokes, that are even slightly funny, for what I'm told is a comedy, were written. Some cool dinosaur stock footage was used and a half-assed reptile/bird costume was obtained for star Beverly D'Angelo which we get to see her hump her husband in, so that's something. Speaking of Miss D'Angelo, why the hell is she in this movie? I mean she had already starred in VACATION among other big Hollywood films, could things have really gotten that desperate in the 90s for her? Same question can be raised for Brion James from BLADE RUNNER. To even out the goodness of the stock footage you get the badness of a cgi stealth fighter vs. a cgi pterodactyl. Stay away from this unless you really need a nap.
Director Mora would go on to make that ridiculous HOWLING III sequel which is better than this but not by much.
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