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how do you tell Victoria Vetri apart from Angela Dorian? The former is a blonde actress and the latter a brunette Playboy centerfold girl. Other than that, they are one and the same person. She's blonde in this film, made by Hammer to cash in on the popularity of their previous cavegirl outing, One Million Years B.C. with Raquel Welch. That's the one that everybody remembers, but want to know something? This is the better film of the two, and so strong that Steven Spielberg contains a homage to it in Jurassic Park. Vetri is fetching enough that we really are willing to suspend our disbelief and buy into the idea of her falling asleep in a cracked open dinosaur egg, waking up in the morning to find the Moma Beast staring at her, and then be adopted by the big thing! Incidentally, Magda Konopka, as her brunette rival for a hunky caveman, is pretty terrific eye candy, too. The special effects are fine, almost impossible to tell apart from those in a Harryhausen film. A strong sense of mini-epic and welcome sense of humor keep this a cut above most films in this genre. And Vetri is one of the unheralded blonde beauties of the screen.
score 9/10
dougbrode 15 March 2006
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