History Film / TheLastDinosaur

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: There are a lot of inaccuracies you can point out, most egregious being the rubber-suit wonder that attacks the group shortly after their arrival, which Chuck identifies as a "ceratopsian" (the group of horned dinosaurs that ''Triceratops'' belonged to). This is especially hilarious considering earlier in the film Chuck claimed to have taken a year of vertebrate paleontology.

* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Thrust, even though he's much more of an anti-hero.
** TheLancer: Banks the photographer.
** TheBigGuy: Bunta the Masai tracker.
** TheSmartGuy: Dr. Kawamoto, a, well, scientist. Wade is also a geologist and knows most about the dinosaurs but is...
** TheChick: Wade, who honestly is the whiniest of the group. He and Banks trade places somewhat near the end, though.

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: Paleontologists have called ''T. rex'' the crown of creation... the king of the super tyrant lizards!

* RecycledInSpace: ''Literature/MobyDick'' - WITH '''[[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs DINOSAURS.]]'''

* StockDinosaurs: A ''Tyrannosaurus'' is the main star, also with an appearance by a ''Triceratops'', complete with a showdown between the two. ''Pteranodon''s also make several appearances.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Masten ''Thrust'': possibly the most ridiculously [[RatedMForManly masculine]] name ever coined by a screenwriter.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: There are a lot of inaccuracies you can point out, most egregious being the ''Uintatherium'' (a prehistoric rhino-like mammal) that attacks the group shortly after their arrival, which Chuck identifies as a "ceratopsian" (the group of horned dinosaurs that ''Triceratops'' belonged to). This is especially hilarious considering earlier in the film Chuck claimed to have taken a year of vertebrate paleontology.

* MoralDissonance: Frankie is a liberated and independent woman and manages to get herself included in the expedition because women are as capable as men. No argument there, but somehow she ends up being assigned the cooking and housekeeping chores when they're stranded in the lost world. Made a little more obnoxious when they "adopt" Hazel, a cavewoman, whom Frankie then saddles with the domestic duties, including washing and brushing Frankie's hair. [[note]]Hazel gets her name because Wade laughingly suggests it as an apparently perfect maid's name. Francesca laughs right along with the boys.[[/note]]

1977 action-adventure film in which a drilling expedition unexpectedly finds a LostWorld deep below the [[MysteriousAntarctica North Pole]]. Big game hunter and oil tycoon Masten Thrust is determined to hunt his last and ultimate predator, a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' that killed nearly the entire first explorer group. Ultimately the team becomes trapped in the LostWorld and must try to survive against the ''T. rex'' and vicious cavemen.

* DumbDinos: The ''T. rex'' consistently attacks the humans and inanimate objects rather than going after its natural prey. The only reason the ''Triceratops'' ends up on the menu is that the latter was, for some reason, hiding out in the tyrannosaur's lair instead of staying well away as any sensible herbivore would do.

* TheVoiceless: Bunta. Though Thrust says he is "very articulate if you happen to speak his language", he is never heard saying a thing in any language.

* DumbDinos: The ''T. rex'' consistently attacks the humans and inanimate objects rather than its natural prey.

* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: Big game hunter Masten Thrust throws away his hunting rifle after it jams while trying to shoot a Tyrannosaur that's about to attack them. Not only does he make no effort to clear the jam, but he never even tries to get the rifle back later (he has the perfect opportunity to pick it back up later, but instead only takes the scope to put on his new crossbow). The fact that he's both a lifelong hunter ''and'' a firearms collector makes this all the more implausible.

** Either that or the ''T. rex'' had previously buried it alive with the intention of eating it fresh later on.

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: Paleontologists have called them the crown of creation... the king of the super tyrant lizards!

* TyrannosaurusRex: Paleontologists have called them the crown of creation... the king of the super tyrant lizards!

* TheDeterminator: Masten Thrust. The man absolutely refuses to leave the lost world until he's killed the damn dinosaur, even when his grand attempt at the climax with a catapult doesn't works. [[spoiler:As a result, the other survivors leave him behind by his own request.]]

* CoolPlane: Masten Thrust's private jet is a full-blown jumbo with an internal trophy room, with customary animal heads on the walls and ''its own fireplace'' ([[FridgeLogic although where does the smoke go?]]).

* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: Big game hunter Masten Thrust throws away his hunting rifle after it jams while trying to shoot a Tyrannosaur that's about to attack them. Not only does he make no effort to clear the jam, but he never even tries to get the rifle back later (he has the perfect opportunity to pick it back up later, but instead only takes the scope to put on his new crossbow). The fact that he's both a lifelong hunter ''and'' a firearms collector makes this all the more implausible.
* RecycledInSpace: ''Literature/MobyDick'' - WITH '''[[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs DINOSAURS.]]'''
* SendInTheSearchTeam: Defied, much to the horror of the rest of the expedition: Masten gave explicit orders that if the expedition didn't contacted the surface world in two days' time, no rescue attempt was to be made to avoid any more potential massacres. The team is able to recover the drilling machine three months after the ''T. Rex'' steals it.

* GiantFootOfStomping: Dr. Kawamoto's [[spoiler: last view? The ''Tyrannosaurus's'' huge

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [spoiler: Averted. Bunta dies last in the film]].

* StealthHiBye: The ''Tyrannosaurus'' is a gigantic freaking dinosaur, and yet in several scenes (including two kills) it's able to walk right up to where the humans are without being detected.

** TheChick: Wade, who honestly is the whiniest of the group.