Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

Release Year: 1985

Director: Bill Norton

Review: After watching this, you really get a new appreciation for Jurassic Park.  In the African jungle a legend exists of a large mysterious creature.  It turns out that this creature is a Brontosaurus.  An American zoologist and her husband go traipsing through the African wild in search for it, and eventually discover a family of them.  Having the intention of bringing the find to the world, they are thwarted by an evil, greedy, rival scientist who wants the find for himself.  He brought an army, they didn't.  Instead they make it their mission to protect the baby Brontosaurus and rescue it's mother from the army.

There is very little to like about this movie.  It bills itself as a children's movie, but the content doesn't back that up.  It was very violent and borderline disturbing at parts.  This is only the beginning of the mess, but really is the key.  The film doesn't know what it wants to be.  It tries to be a touching family friendly film about a cute dinosaur, but on the other hand there are violent battles and other adult themes.  Top it off with a weak, overdone, plot and terrible acting and you end up with this train wreck.  I did appreciate the animatronic dinosaurs.  Not because they looked real, but because they brought back a certain amount of nostalgia.  It wasn't enough to save the experience though, it was really just offensive.
Rating: 1.5/5