History Film / DinosaurIsland

* ''Film/DinosaurIsland1994'', a 1994 film.
* ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurIsland2002'', a 2002 film.
* ''Film/DinosaurIsland2014'', a 2014 film.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Pictured: Boy from the 2010s, girl from the 1950s, feathered dinosaurs.]]

''Dinosaur Island'' is an Australian 2014 film.

Lucas, a boy from 2014, ends up magically transported onto a strange island where the only human inhabitant he can find - at least at first - is Kate, a girl from 1955. The island appears to be beyond time and space, with its strange ability to pull in airplanes while seemingly vaporizing their passengers, its large number of dinosaur and killer plant inhabitants, and the inability to communicate with the outside world.

Combining their skills and knowledge together, the two must work together to find a way to escape. Fortunately, Lucas is a math and science genius, and Kate is a survivalist and a dinosaur and plant specialist.

The island itself is home to more than dinosaurs, but appears to be an oddly supernatural place featuring everything from magic crystals and a tribe of African boys to dinosaurs and plane wrecks that somehow have no people inside.

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!!This movie contains examples of:

* AdultsAreUseless: The only adult on the island is a man who's being held prisoner, and isn't quite all there.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Even back when ''T. rex'' was believed to have been completely-feathered, a bearded vulture-rex with all-primary neon colors would've been scoffed at (the neon colors would hinder its stealth when hunting).
* ButNotTooBlack: Lucas is dark-skinned like his mother but has a Caucasian father.
** If [[spoiler: Kate is his maternal grandmother]] then his mother fits the trope as well.
* CaptivePush: When Lucas and Kate are captured by the WackyWaysideTribe, they are pushed along with their hands tied.
* CutToTheFunny: While Kate is explaining the island and her history with it to Lucas, the camera switches to showing her pet dinosaur doing silly things with a bunch of fireflies.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Mimos]]
* DomesticatedDinosaurs: Kate has a pet ''Sinornithosaurus'' named Mimos, who acts a little like a bird.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: This trope refers to when dinosaurs ''aren't totally required for the plot''. It actually applies to this movie, as the plot's focus is on the supernatural nature of the island, with the dinosaurs being simply one threat/feature of many (albeit the most prominent one, and the director even admitted they were intended to be the main focus of the movie, despite not being totally needed for the plot).
* EyeScream: A dead dinosaur with a plant growing through its eye socket is seen at one point.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: A plant is shown having numerous eyes, all moving.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Even after being chased by raptors and seeing other dinosaurs, Lucas still blows off the prisoner when he tries to explain the magic crystal.
* GiantFlyer: Lucas and Kate end up riding a feathery pterodactyl.
* IdiotBall: [[spoiler: How did Lucas not recognize the full name and birthdate of his grandmother when he read her diary?]]
* {{Improv}}: The tribal kids are actual natives of the location where the movie was filmed, and were encouraged to ad lib Pidgin English.
* KidHero: Lucas, who's 13, and Kate, who's 15.
* LightningCanDoAnything: Lightning storms are the harbinger of these airplanes suddenly appearing and crashing in the island. It was a lightning storm that took Lucas to the island in the first place.
* LostWorld
* ManEatingPlant: There are a few plants that are clearly aggressive and make an effort to eat people.
* MinimalistCast: After Lucas ends up on the island about 11 minutes into the movie, it's all about him and Kate. There are no other ''characters'', with the exception of a man who is shown as the prisoner of the WackyWaysideTribe and is onscreen for only a few minutes, and plays a most minor role. The WackyWaysideTribe exist, but are technically not "characters", in the sense of total lack of dialog or characterization.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: An Australian reviewer called Kate's attempts to sound like an upper-class 1950s girl "hilarious", due to the actress not being able to totally fake the appropriate accent.
* OrangeAndBlueContrast: It's all over the place. Even the dinosaurs have a lot of blue. At least green is prominent in the jungle areas, which comprise a large amount of the movie.
* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler:It wasn't, but Lucas waking up in a hospital when he travels back to his world makes him think that at first. Until it's revealed that Kate is his grandmother due to a StableTimeLoop.]]
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent:
** How did a girl from the 1950s and a boy from the 2010s end up on an island with dinosaurs and a native tribe?
** [[spoiler:An elderly Kate shows up at the end of the movie to greet the still-13 Lucas.]]
* PlatonicBoyGirlHeroes: Lucas is a 13-year-old boy, and Kate is a 15-year-old girl, but there's never a hint of romance between them. [[spoiler: Good thing too, since due to a StableTimeLoop Kate turns out to be Lucas's grandmother.]]
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Considering the more recent science that indicates that birds descended from dinosaurs, viewers who have seen other portrayals of dinosaurs may find the colorfully feathered beasts in this movie strange. Especially since some distinctly make bird noises, and one even mimics the human voice similarly to other talking birds such as parrots. One even collects blue objects, which is similar behavior to a bowerbird.
* RaptorAttack: One occurs late in the movie.
* ReversePolarity: Lucas outright says this when describing how he'll use the magic crystal to get home.
* ScavengerWorld: Even before Lucas arrived, Kate had been scavenging the things she needs to survive from the random downed airplanes that show up. With no other humans around aside from the African tribe (with no indication if Kate knew them beforehand or not), life for her had been little more than collecting food and clothing, and building and maintaining her tree house.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Mimos, Kate's pet feathered dinosaur, is a ''Sinornithosaurus''. ''Guanlong'', ''Arthropluera'', ''Dilong'', and ''Cuvieronius'' appear as well.
* ShownTheirWork:
** FEATHERED DINOSAURS. All the dinosaurs that logically should have feathers, have feathers and said feathers are accurately positioned on the raptors. The feathers are also brightly colored, as opposed to the common "RealIsBrown" tendency that plagues even feathered dinosaurs sometimes.
** The ''TyrannosaurusRex'' also has a chunky, birdlike body plan, avoiding the problem of "shrink-wrapping" that's fairly common with dinosaur portrayals.
** While the pterosaurs are a fictional species (labeled as "Pteradons" and looking sort of like [[ToothyBird toothy]] ''Pteranodon'' with rhamphorhynchoid-tails scaled up to [[GiantFlyer azhdarchid]] size), they have pycnofibres (a type of fur known only to occur in pterosaurs) and launch by vaulting quadrupedally with their wings.
* StockDinosaurs: Raptors, ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Iguanodon'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Triceratops'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Brachiosaurus'', and ''Pachycephalosaurus'' all appear in the movie.
* TeenGenius: Lucas is a middle school math and science genius, and Kate is a high school dinosaur and plant expert from the 1950s, as well as a survivalist. Both kids' skills are naturally needed to escape the island.
* TyrannosaurusRex: A feathered one with a chunky, birdlike body plan.
* WackyWaysideTribe: The African tribal boys. They seem to come out of nowhere and do play a big role in a sideplot.
* WeNeedADistraction: To escape the tribal boys, Lucas lets loose a bunch of dinosaurs in cages.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** When the kids escape the prison, the prisoner inside who told them the secret of the magic crystals is left behind. We even see him again shortly after their escape.
** While Lucas was transported magically to the island by the lightning storm that struck his airplane, what happened to the rest of the people inside? Or the other planes? The movie never explains.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When confronted by the tyrannosaur, Lucas immediately explains that [[Film/JurassicPark it can't see them if they don't move]]. Kate quickly shoots back how idiotic that is. Sure enough, [[RealityEnsues it can see them just fine]].
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* ShoutOut / TakeThat: When confronted by the tyrannosaur, Lucas immediately explains that [[Film/JurassicPark it can't see them if they don't move]]. Kate quickly shoots back how idiotic that is. Sure enough, [[RealityEnsues it can see them just fine]].

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Even back when ''T. rex'' was believed to have been completely-feathered, a bearded vulture-rex with all-primary neon colors would've been scoffed at (it would hinder its stealth when hunting).

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Even back when T.rex was believed to have been feathered, a bearded vulture-rex with all-primary neon colors would've been scoffed at.