Review of Carnosaur 2

Carnosaur 2 (1995)
3/10
The best in the trilogy.... and why is that?
4 January 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Why did I say "The Best in the Trilogy". Here is the explanation: This movie, is no more, no less a horrible and disgraceful copy of James Cameron's "Aliens" (1986). When you saw "Aliens", you can easily see it again in some different fashion. And here it is. The story is very, very similar. Even characters… Well, where to start, a group of technicians arrives in a giant power plant, or mine, or whatever the f**k is it, that happens to be a large nuclear reactor, and of course, we expect it to go boom… The place is crawling with raptors that enjoy to kill everything in their way, including one large (laughable) T-Rex (OK, In "Aliens" we have a bunch of drone aliens (raptors) and a big, nasty bitch – the queen (T-Rex)). The characters were also the same Jack Reed (John Savage, who… how the hell did he get here?), is a fine mixture of Corporal Hicks from Aliens (there played my Michael Biehn ) and somewhat of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), next we have Tom McQuade (Cliff De Young), a similar character to Burke from Aliens, and then we got Jesse (Ryan Thomas Johnson), a mixture of Newt and Ripley from the "Aliens", why Ripley? Because Jesse kills a T-Rex with a forklift on the end of the film, just as Ripley pushed out alien queen from space ship, The character of 'Monk' is no one else, but Hudson (Bill Paxton from "Aliens"), who makes jokes and get most scared when the things go out of control, other characters as Moses is a original, by the looks of things, but he did a bypass on the large doors, just as Hudson did in "Aliens", and by his looks, he bears a resemblance to Pvt. Frost from "Aliens". Ben Kahane (Don Stroud) is of course, Sgt. Apone and the girls (oh, I left the girls for the end, how rude of me… but I don't give a damn, frankly, my dear), first Sarah Rawlins had nothing to do with "Aliens" character, so it's free to say, that she is quite original, but gives us a resemblance to Pvt. Vasquez… maybe for a moment, or not, but she dies like Hudson... in gore and pain, and finally we have Joanne Galloway the pilot, very similar to "Aliens" pilot Ferro, also a female pilot, that dies in the same way. Killed off behind the pilot chair inside the aircraft. So much about those things, there is a lot more to say about connections between "Aliens" and "Carnosaur 2". In short… one big "copy/paste". The acting, atmosphere, script, special effects (especially gore and dinosaur effects), are just plain funny. The dinosaur puppets are the same and their movements are also the same – Lame! And for the end, guess what? I do recommend this film! Watch it, it is funny and entertaining, more different that the original, or the even more funnier "Carnosaur 3". Enjoy!
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