Product Description

Two expeditions make their way into the heart of a forest near Mt. Ararat in Turkey - home of a dormant volcano that holds within itself a deadly secret that's been asleep for millions of years: un-hatched pterodactyl eggs! On a man hunt for a dangerous terrorist, Captain Bergen (Coolio) leads his military Special Ops unit deeper into the forest, while Professor Lovecraft (Cameron Daddo) and his team of scientists search for clues to the past when they make a dangerous discovery. Faced with the threat of the flesh eating predators, both groups come to the realization that they must rely on one another if they plan to make it out of the forest alive! With non-stop action and explosive graphics, Pterodactyl will make your fear take flight!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26957 in DVD
• Brand: Paramount
• Released on: 2005-12-27
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 89 minutes

Customer Reviews

PTERODACTYL PTERODACTYL DOR ME VOUS
This made for SCIFI Channel thriller is quite entertaining for movies of its ilk. The special effects are pretty cool and the cast gamely engages in some ridiculous dialogue and action, but hey this is a giant dinosaur movie---who wants art? Cameron Daddo plays a paleontologist who is taking some of his students on an expedition on the Turkish/Armenian border. Amy Sloan plays Kate, his graduate student and would be lover. Also in the area is a special ops force out to take custody of a rebel leader. Of course as the movie progresses, the two parties of people converge to battle the army of pterodactyls, released by an earthquake in a volcano. There's lots of blood and guts as the nasty birdies engage in their predatory feeding, and lots of tense who's gonna get it scenes? While hardly a work of classic stature, PTERODACTYL provided the thrills and action I like in this kind of distracting movie.

Killer Prehistoric Pterodactyls On The Rampage In Fast Moving Action Story
Obviously you don't go into a viewing of Showtime's 2005 production of "Pterodactyl", expecting Academy Award winning performances or a first rate script even if you are a fan of this type of film. However since a film doesn't necessarily have to have these qualities to be entertaining I found myself pleasantly surprised by this made for television effort starring Australian ex pat actor Cameron Daddo. Being a big dinosaur fan since childhood I've always enjoyed any films where dinosaurs feature in the story so I was eager to get a hold of a copy of this film. Despite its very obvious shortcomings in terms of dialogue and character development I found the film's main strength lay in the superb creatures, ie the Pterodactyl(s) of the title that were for the most part first rate. The idea of long extinct dinosaurs and other related reptiles suddenly being awakened in the present day and creating havoc among modern man is not a new one and has been used in countless films over the decades but what we have in "Pterodactyl", is nevertheless a fast moving action story that doesn't waste too much time on setting the scene before the creatures appear and begin their trail of death and destruction. What really amazed me in "Pterodactyl", were its very gory special effects that really left nothing to the imagination and certainly would not be for the squeamish. While it could in no way compare to the dinosaur epics created by Steven Spielberg I have to give this film its due in that even with its much smaller budget the savage flying pterodactyls created here in vivid CGI really lifted the film above its ordinary script and largely stock characters.

Dinosaurs Galore
An American scientist and his students are in Turkey to look for fossils on a mountain. They are warned by the government that there are dangerous men in the wilds but they decide to go ahead. Enter an American military team looking for a renegade and you have the rest of the cast. Unfortunately, a recent earthquake has unearthed some pterodactyl eggs that then hatched. The are around the mountain is now the feeding ground for large numbers of these flying predators.

First one group and then the other runs afoul of the hungry beasts. As their numbers dwindle, it becomes obvious that the only way any of them are getting away safely is to try and eliminate the beasts. But is scientific knowledge and some minor military hardware enough to take on creatures that have survived the way these have? Well, they have no choice but to try.

I really did not expect a lot of this movie so I was surprised. We see the creatures almost from the start and we see a lot of them. If you add up the screen time for each individual creature it would probably be five times the length of the movie. The effects are pretty good although some of the injuries are rather campy. The characters are somewhat standard for this type of film but a few twists are added to keep them from being stale. All in all this one was pretty good. Check it out.