I need help with this movie...

[sgtkabukiman]

Today my friends and I were talking and someone asked what the TVs of the future would be like. And thinking I was so funny and clever I said that the TVs of the future would suck kids into their favorite dinosaur themed tv shows. Well...no one caught the reference...and then when I tried to explain myself...I honestly couldn't remember the name of the movie I was referencing.

WHAT MOVIE IS THIS??

its about kids whose dad is an inventor or something and he makes a TV that they get sucked into. The kids are brought into this dinosaur world....but in the movie the dinosaurs are wise-cracking animatronic walk-upright dinosaurs. There are also cavemen. It's very cartoony.

I can't for the life of me figure out what movie this is, and I was searching IMDB but I guess I just couldn't hit the correct key words. Does anyone know what movie this is? I remember being so enamored by it as a kid...and I NEED to figure out what it is...help!

[brettville]

Are you talking about "Land of the Lost?"

Fun Fact: Marshall Willenholly, Will Ferrell's character in Jay and Silent Bob strike back is named after the kids from that show.

[sgtkabukiman]

Are you talking about "Land of the Lost?"

Fun Fact: Marshall Willenholly, Will Ferrell's character in Jay and Silent Bob strike back is named after the kids from that show.

No, no...this is a movie--- and its about these kids who get sucked into this cartoon on their TV-- but obviously (obviously...wtf, haha, there is nothing rational about this plot), when they get inside the show--it's all live action with big costumes with animatronic headed dinosaurs that speak english and are being oppressed by cavemen or something. And there is a small flying one that cracks jokes or something. I only remember bits and pieces. There is a caveman/dinosaur bar fight at some point, I believe?

[lavahot]

It was originally a movie, but I think it turned into a series after that. It was around the time of that other puppet dinosaur movie with the albino dino baby whose catch phrase was "I'm Da baby, gotta love me!" Granted they are two very different shows, but the puppetry styles were similar.

[tubbyd72]

dinosaurs ..of the tv show at least .. a movie i am not sure of but the series is defiantly "dinosaurs" its actually for sale last time i was at best buy... check out the imdb listing
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101081/

[d0ug18]

Whoa! I read your post and I knew exactly what you were talking about. Didn't remember the name but I knew enough about it to find it... Loved this movie as a kid!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103621/

"Adventures in Dinosaur City"

Rad...

[styles]

Whoa! I read your post and I knew exactly what you were talking about. Didn't remember the name but I knew enough about it to find it... Loved this movie as a kid!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103621/

"Adventures in Dinosaur City"

Rad...
I have that on VHS in my ginormous box of vhs tapes in my garage along side other classics such as

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loverboy and cant buy me love with the man known as mcdreamy.. i think i also have run somewhere in the box

damn i would like to get some of these on DVD

[shinmaryuu]

Dinosaurs was never a movie just a tv show that ran for 4 seasons along other awesome TGIF shows on ABC like Full House, Family Matters, etc. That block of tv ruled my later childhood. All 4 seasons are easily available on DVD. A sad fact is this was pretty much the last thing Jim Henson ever did as he died shortly after it's conception. His son Brian ended up taking over for the The Jim Henson Company side of the show. It was also the first time The Henson Company tried out it's new experimental full body animatronic puppets you now see all over the place.

What can i say i am a huge Henson nerd :)

[styles]

Dinosaurs was never a movie just a tv show that ran for 4 seasons along other awesome TGIF shows on ABC like Full House, Family Matters, etc. That block of tv ruled my later childhood. All 4 seasons are easily available on DVD. A sad fact is this was pretty much the last thing Jim Henson ever did as he died shortly after it's conception. His son Brian ended up taking over for the The Jim Henson Company side of the show. It was also the first time The Henson Company tried out it's new experimental full body animatronic puppets you now see all over the place.

What can i say i am a huge Henson nerd :)
i think your thinking of a different dinosaurs

your thinking about the one with the baby that face owns his dad with a frying pan right?

[andyaldrich]

i think your thinking of a different dinosaurs

your thinking about the one with the baby that face owns his dad with a frying pan right?


If I'm thinking of the same show then the baby would say, "Not da Mama!". I think the father dinosaur used to wear a trucker's cap and a lumberjack shirt. I thought it was just called 'Dinosaurs'.

[styles]

If I'm thinking of the same show then the baby would say, "Not da Mama!". I think the father dinosaur used to wear a trucker's cap and a lumberjack shirt. I thought it was just called 'Dinosaurs'.
lol yeah they recently put those out on DVD

but the OP is talking about dinosaur city i believe, which was a movie, and its great! dunno if its on DVD but ive had it on VHS for years

[tokenuser]

If I'm thinking of the same show then the baby would say, "Not da Mama!". I think the father dinosaur used to wear a trucker's cap and a lumberjack shirt. I thought it was just called 'Dinosaurs'.That would be "Dinosaurs". The Sinclairs were the family (named after the logo of Sinclair Oil).

[andritchie]

Oh man I'm so glad you made this post!
I completely forgot about this movie!

Also grateful to d0ug18 for figuring it out.

Does anyone remember the catchy little song in the beginning? (I think its part of the cartoon they watch)

Here's the trailer if anyones interested:
http://www.retrojunk.com/movie/trailers/2454-adventures-in-dinosaur-city/814/#intro

[shinmaryuu]

Yes my reply was more for the people talking about the dinosaurs tv show more than the topic of the thread. Also yes it was the show with the baby who said "not the mama" and "I'm the baby gotta love me" and hit people with frying pans.

[lavahot]

Yes my reply was more for the people talking about the dinosaurs tv show more than the topic of the thread. Also yes it was the show with the baby who said "not the mama" and "I'm the baby gotta love me" and hit people with frying pans.

Ah, the perfect formula for a sitcom. You can't get any better than an obnoxious baby seriously injuring people by slamming them with a frying pan.

[fulltangninja]

Man I remember "Dinosaurs!" That was one of the coolest shows on TV when I was a kid. You could NEVER get a studio to put money into a show like that nowadays. Unless it's Dinosaurs the crime drama or htey have super powers >_<

[lavahot]

Man I remember "Dinosaurs!" That was one of the coolest shows on TV when I was a kid. You could NEVER get a studio to put money into a show like that nowadays. Unless it's Dinosaurs the crime drama or htey have super powers >_<


<in his best J. Jonah Jameson voice> Dinosaurs with superpowers that solve crimes? You got it slick! I'll give you a slot after Law & Order:SUV (sic) and I want a pilot on my TiVo by Thursday. Now get out of my office, it's time for my hoagie. <clicks office intercom> GET ME PICTURES OF SPIDER-MAN! <turns 180o in chair>

[sgtkabukiman]

Whoa! I read your post and I knew exactly what you were talking about. Didn't remember the name but I knew enough about it to find it... Loved this movie as a kid!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103621/

"Adventures in Dinosaur City"

Rad...

THANK YOU SO MUCH. Sorry it took so long for me to respond, I had a long week of work. THANK YOU. THIS HAS MADE THIS WEEK. Oh man, thank you so much.