Drive-In Sci-FI: King Dinosaur (1955)

A planet comes from the space and aligns itself to earth. "close enough to believe man could actually travel to another planet". right. and it also supports life too. Humans quickly build their first ever rocket. cant they do it off-screen? you are shown and explained atomic power propelled jet engine of a rocket. we have 9 minutes of fail technotalk until we finally see it lift off. Apparently it still took them months to get to the planet, but happily we get that fast forwarded. Then we see it land with some AWFUL effects, and people with diving helmets going off it. Theres a man and a woman that tok a flight, what did they do for those months, echem. from an active volcano they deduct that planet is still young. our earth is considered not so young but we still have volcanos, the most recent in iceland. so whats up with that. then they do experimentation on grass to see if air is breathable, that makes no sense. after hours of testing they tell other man and a woman to come out of the ship. what, earth only had enough suits for 2? They see couple deers and bears. birds too. wow is this a coincidence, a unknown planet has exactly same animal life.
First thing on their mind - to take a bath in a lake. so they do a armed-to-teeth expedition towards the lake they see far far away. They check the soil and say its prehistoric era. yeah because they know the future of the planets history right? how to make such deduction is beyond me. As they stop to rest a snake bites one of the girls, but no one is concerned about possible alien poison or anything. they instead keep walking and get list, so they make a make-shift camp which gets wrecked by an OWL. The camp is believably bad, after all their scientists and not scouts. they do watch shifts even though the planet looks very peaceful to begin with (beside the alien non-poisonous snakes). During the night we find out about the love interest between two scientists....told you. but it is disturbed by a crocodile that the scientist wrestle. that's one brave scientist, knowing that they all have weapons to boot. It doesn't turn as good as he planned and he ends up wounded. So the other two campers go out to find a ship and bring back medical supplies. Find is the keyword here. From what seems to be lost in the weeds we are suddenly a 5 minutes away from the spaceship.
Meanwhile the two campers that are left meets a giant ant that would go away if the stupid woman wouldn't have started screaming. so to kill it they use all their ammunition (they didn't take spare rounds). That doesn't bother them, so they decide to separate, some will keep doing research others go explore the island in the lake. i mean hello there's a giant ants here. nah they even have a talk about "nothing harmful on this planet", like that non-harmful crocodile that almost killed one of them right? the OWL returns to bother them in their sleep once again, what a persistent animal. meanwhile they are once again visited by a snake, that leaves them alone. what is it with snakes in here.
The two go to an island and deduct its much colder in there. on an island that is an active volcano, colder. oh and full of vultures. They may just as well in savana. and then they see a giant.... chameleon. they shoot him and he doesn't even attack them. seriously. it just stands there. moaning. Once they are out of bullets and leaving the chameleon bites the guy in the arm, doing minimal damage. Then more lizards come and they start fighting each other, oh and there's also a crocodile. So what they do is they send a signal for other two scientists to come (be be a live bait to get out, good plan!). They look at the chameleon and say its a tyrannosaurus rex. are they mad really. couldn't they have afforded something that looked at least a bit like tyrannosaurus? Lucky for them, the fighting reptiles are distracted and they are making a run for it, while the other scientists are spectating, smart enough not to get caught into same trap. they also brought an atom bomb to blow up the island just because there are animals there that in their not so sane minds look prehistoric. They nuke the place, a good start for humanity on a foreign planet. they go home happy, but i doubt they stay that way long after being put into asylum for what they did for science.


Story: 1/10. ridiculous is putting it mildly.
Acting: 2/10. monkey was the best actor here.
Sound: 1/10. the usual bad soundtrack made worse.
Sci factor: 0/10. 0 is too good for it.
Lasting Appeal: 3/10.
Overall rating: 1/10.