 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1994 film Tami and the t-rex And this is actually a reissued film that's available on shutter streaming right now when this video is up If if I'm putting this video up on the 13th of January then it's available streaming on shutter Yeah, Monday January 13th is when it's dropping on shutter as far as I know I believe that's the first streaming appearance of this film now Like I said, this is a reissue. This is done by vinegar syndrome the original Is a PG-13 film that came out in 1994 and this is the gore cut So this is the R rated version as you would assume for shutter. So I'll talk a little bit about that and No, no spoilers on this one since I mean, I know it's from 1994, but the gore cut is not and this is kind of Well, I'm sure this is the first time that a lot of people be watching the film because I've seen a lot of people Like I've never even heard of this film and since it's just hitting shutter now And I think this is a streaming premiere then no no spoilers for this, but you don't really need spoilers I will I will tell you upfront if you're a fan of Bad movies movie. There's just really bad, but they're super fun This one just just see it But obviously you can watch this whole review because no spoilers. So this one was written and directed by Stuart Sorry Stuart raffle The guy did he directed the ice pirates the Philadelphia experiment and the only one I've even really heard of Mac and me. He's also done a bunch of other ones, but I just you know grabbed a few Stars I was surprised on this one because as soon as I started looking up who's in the cast I was like whoa, okay, so it stars Denise Richards. Now. This is Denise Richards before she became famous It also stars Paul Walker Also before he became famous and it also has Terry Kaiser in it Who is if people don't know him by name Terry Kaiser is the guy who plays the dead body? Bernie Lomax in weekend at Bernie's in weekend at Bernie's too, which is not as good but Ridiculous and still fun. So love weekend at Bernie's by the way, and I will say this all the acting is Appropriate for what the movie is because it's like one of those so bad It's fun, and it was made intentionally to be a horror comedy So the acting is not gonna be like top-notch, and it's fine like it fits within the context So it's all good. I will say my favorite performance was probably Terry Kaiser actually as as more of like a straight-up acting like Performance like his his acting was the best acting for what he was supposed to do in my opinion, but other people may feel differently So yeah, there's no surprise that this was before Denise Richards and Paul Walker got anywhere So Raffles said okay, so this is basically how this happened You would ask yourself why is there a t-rex in this and actually why does the t-rex on this actually looks so good? Because it does the t-rex looks very good in this well It's an actual animatronic t-rex what happened is raffle the director writer was contacted by a friend of his From South America who he said like owns a theater in South America or something So I don't know how this is the case, but his friend contacted him was just like hey I'm going to have access to an animatronic t-rex for about two weeks Like he was going to have it in his possession. He's like I think that'd be a really cool thing to use for a movie Why don't you make a movie involving this animatronic t-rex? So he's like okay, so they had to throw it together real quick because this guy was only going to have it for two weeks So they throw the script together which you can you can tell but it's fine like it works for being a so bad It's good film and being a horror comedy it works for that You can throw that type of stuff together You really can and as long as you have like some good lines in it There are a lot of good one-liners in this that I quite enjoy so but it's Yeah, it's something so so when I read about that that like it's just here's this random animatronic t-rex Such a random weird thing. This just reminds me of how many films you were able to just make in the 80s and 90s Just make them whatever But it's a good thing because now we're unearthing a lot of these like Tammy and the t-rex and enjoying them now So I love it So all the shooting locations for this film were actually within 25 minutes of raffle's house and a lot of that had to do with Timing they need to make sure they kept things moving. They got the film Filmed fast enough because they had to have access to the t-rex Because of the tight time for the movie to be made raffle said the script was thin And he just threw in as much wacky stuff as he could seeing as it was supposed to be a horror comedy He also said that he asked the cast and crew for things that they wanted incorporated into the film And you can kind of tell some of that some of those things you can't necessarily tell what's script and what's you know Improved or added last minute But some of the things you definitely can because they're end up being these moments where like the actors have like these kind Of awkward pauses where it's like they're thinking and they're just like wait and yeah, yeah, that's all I wanted to do Okay. Yeah, we'll stop there. So you can kind of tell some of those moments that were just kind of on the fly But you know what that adds to some of the charm of this film. It's fun So this was originally Shot as an r-rated film with gore and that's why we have the cut that we do right now It's available on shutter and put out on blu-ray through vinegar syndrome So if you like this film enough you can buy it through vinegar syndrome. So It was originally made as an R and then they had it the studio had it cut down to a PG 13 To be shown for family consumption. I Assume it was gonna be on TV. That's my guess, but I just seeing this film I don't know why you would cut it down to a PG 13. It makes no sense The movie would suck so hard at a PG 13. I'm glad I've only seen it as the R version You need that gore you need the inappropriate stuff that's in it because otherwise It's not really fun to be honest like you need it to feel like it's an adult Horror comedy you don't want it to feel like it's this highly edited like no gore kind of no fun Just weird dumb film because that's what the PG 13 must have been. I Don't know like I said, I haven't seen it, but you know So vinegars. Yeah vinegar syndrome restored it for the United States I will say though it was released as a PG 13 in 1994 in the US But Italy actually got the original cut of it So I don't know if that's where they got the original cut. I don't know You can tell from the corny 80s rock music and the opening credit text font That this film is actually meant to be ridiculous now First of all, I know people will feel me on the thing when you have this super corny Like over-the-top music which was kind of like this 80s rock Like over-the-top 80s rock is kind of what it was It's just like okay. These people are trying to have some fun And then on top of that like the the text font for the opening credits I don't know if people know what I mean But like there are certain fonts that were used back in the day to signify like this films trying to have fun Not like classy looking or or straightforward and boring But just like you'll see what I mean when you see it. It's kind of like skewed to the side It's like fun with text Just saying So there's a fight early in this film. This doesn't ruin anything, but there's a fight early in this film that takes a very out of nowhere turn That I thought was pretty funny and I didn't see coming so Enjoy It's one of it is one of those moments that I thought back to Ralph will saying I Put a bunch of wacky stuff in there that it just it's one of those things So when you actually first see the t-rex like I was saying it's impressive like it looks good the way they reveal the t-rex You're like oh Okay, we have like a good-looking t-rex in this thing awesome But the problem then comes that it's an animatronic t-rex not made to be in a film initially It's for like a theme park or something like that. So it can only really do certain things so I think within the confines that they had they did a really good job Getting around any of the issues of things it couldn't do that they needed it to do for the film So some of those things that they make it do they kind of get creative They make it work. It looks kind of wonky and off But once again, it's a horror comedy and it's so bad. It's good. So it kind of adds to the charm once again So it works for that reason But uh, you can tell the moments where they're just like We can't get this to do exactly what we really want to Improv it we'll figure something out and they do Um, they get uh, yeah, I already said that you can tell the parts were done on the fly because it seems like the actors are pausing I already talked about that. Sorry Big shout out to george pilgrim for some amazingly bad acting He plays the role of billy in this and he is the main antagonist Initially it then ends up becoming terry keiser's character, but george pilgrim this guy just look out for billy the character of billy his acting is so like You know, there's like fun bad acting, but then there's like amazing bad acting like tommy weisow I'm not saying that he reaches like the tommy weisow Awesome awful acting status, but he's not super far below that I just really enjoyed the way he brought the the corny cheesiness Great, uh, I also wrote down it was good to see shawn wailin in this He played the role of weasel in it and people might know him from I know him from idle hands But people and myself included most well know him as roach in the people under the stairs Which is a really good film and I did do a full review and analysis of that film on my channel So you can look for that. That was a fun one to do. I dove really deep on that one too. So Check that out a bunch of character interactions are just plain odd in this Hence being able to tell that it was kind of thrown together in the script was then There's a lot of randomness and really off character reactions Yeah, there are a lot of moments where characters react in certain ways Like they say things that are totally disconnected from what's going on or they react in a way that you're just like Huh, that's how you react to this. Okay But once again that kind of adds to the charm of it being so terrible. It's fun Just saying As one could guess The fun ramps up when the t-rex gets loose when the t-rex really starts doing stuff Is when the most fun is had it is fun before that I will say But it's a different type of fun once the t-rex has its time and it's it's a good time The way the t-rex walks is actually kind of painful to watch because it is awful And it's just so awkward and doesn't work when it when they're showing it from afar Whenever they're showing things that are kind of more close up with the t-rex It's actually okay. Like they make it look good. They make it work a lot better It's just when they have like the longer shots and the t-rex is moving. It looks so bad But those are times when you can just you know, just laugh at it Also, uh, at times they make the arms rubber So that someone actually has like an actor actually has their hands in like these rubber t-rex arms And the rubber doesn't actually match The body of the animatronic t-rex. So it looks a little off but also like How rigid it is and how emotionless the t-rex kind of is versus how expressive that the hands or you know claws a little tiny What would I call them just little tiny arms? I guess How how reactive and bendable those are it just it looks so weird because it's so often it doesn't match But once again, it's just another one of those things. It just adds to the funny, you know I just wrote down with a Question mark an exclamation point. Why would you ever cut the gore out of this film? Just reiterates what I said earlier. Why why it's a terrible idea There's so much fun to be had with the gore So the police in this are a lot of fun two police officers in particular They're kind of like the idiot police officers who Don't really care about doing their job for some reason but to be honest Their scenes are my favorite scenes in the movie because they have some really funny lines The way they just act is so ridiculous and like I said, it's like they just don't even care Their reactions to the situations are like comedy gold Not like intentional comedy gold, but it ends up being comedy gold The gore is done in a fun and ridiculous way that is key with this film And you can tell that they set out for it to be that way to be ridiculous to be over the top So all good There's a scene involving a morgue that is also one of my favorite scenes In addition to the fight scene in the beginning that has a crazy twist the any scene with those two idiot police officers This morgue scene is one of my is my favorite. It's You'll see what I mean. You will see what I mean if you watch it or if you've already watched it, you'll know Uh and the conclusion of the film actually worked for me I was wondering where they were going to go with it because it was very much meandering towards the end Like a lot of these types of films tend to do Uh, but I was good with it. I liked how they ended it and I was just like, oh, okay I'm down with that So just some wrap up things about the film the music in this is over the top But that adds a fun level of absurdity to the film Uh, there are some audio issues though. This is the worst thing about the film There are actually some audio issues where it sounds like they're like they get so loud that they like blow out the microphone So, um Yeah, I I assume that's that's I mean that has to be an issue from the original audio recording Because otherwise I assume vinegar syndrome would have been able to clean that up, but yeah, it's um At it's not consistent throughout the film, but you're very much aware of it early on in the film It happens a few times within the first Like 20 25 minutes of the movie and then it seems like it kind of goes away. So it got corrected at some point Uh, there's actually a little bit of a theme of science doing something bad With overall good outcome for society in mind This is actually something that's been in films a lot So you would see a film like this and be like I was around really not going to be a theme It's just for fun But no like it kind of goes back to you know, when you have those movies where either it's technology or science or um Science experiments where they're like, oh, we can do these wonderful things for society and advance technology and do all this stuff But then it just You know ends up being more of a problem than anything. So there's that kind of theme Here, but there's also the theme of pure revenge and that's what this movie is really about So I wrote down some inspirational words on that Don't be a jerk because you never know when the person you're messing with will come back as a giant mechanical t-rex and stomp you Keep that in mind and that should keep you a good nice honest person Because you don't want a mechanical t-rex stomping on you just saying Uh, and then the last thing I wrote is this is a good candidate to get the joe bob briggs treatment I could see this one being in season two of the last drive in with joe bob briggs. That would be fun That would be awesome But you never know he throws curves balls. We don't know but all i'm saying is it's on shutter He can have access to it Would be a fun one now. This is a film. I enjoyed it. I had a good time with it It's not my it's not super up there as far as fun Awful films go for me. So I don't think I would buy it per se Because I I need them to be like a particular level of Terrible and fun and this one doesn't quite reach that level for me But it's definitely worth watching once you will definitely enjoy it I know a lot of people will probably see this and be like, oh man, I have to buy this. So that's good buy it from vinegar syndrome Awesome. I bought some stuff from them recently. If you saw my unboxing of that um Already did ice cream man. I'm gonna do the other ones. So Um taming the t-rex. It's a good time. I'm glad shutter got this one glad vinegar syndrome restored it And put it out in this gore cut because that's the way it was meant to be It's kind of writing a wrong from 1994. So good job vinegar syndrome Now my rating system. This is where I have to give two ratings One is a serious rating of rating it amongst all film and the second one is rating it as a so good It's bad film now the first one being serious It's got to be like a Half star because it's terrible if you look at it from a standpoint of I want to watch a legitimately good theatrical movie right now It's awful like one star one star. Maybe okay. Half star One star I'll go one star now if you're looking at it from the perspective of Man, I love movies that are so bad. They're fun I'm gonna go three star on it. I can't go any further than that I am I wouldn't if I did quarters I would go 3.25 because I was kind of between three and three and a half But I put it towards more towards the three than the three and a half But I recommend it if you haven't watched it yet. Check it out and awesome So please help me out right now. Uh, hit that subscribe Help encourage me to keep this going because I'm not making money doing it. 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