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* BareYourMidriff: The female lead wears a crop top for a certain point in the film.
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** Making matters worse, given the description of the creature in the book and the novel's cover, they seemed to have gotten ''Sarcosuchus'' confused with a Spinosaurid dinosaur.
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** Making matters worse, given the description of the creature in the book and the novel's cover, they seemed to have gotten ''Sarcosuchus'' confused with a Spinosaurid dinosaur. The creature in the movie itself looks more properly crocodilian.
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** Visually, the titular Dinocroc appears to be a mix of [[{{Film/Godzilla1998}} Zilla]] and [[Film/JurassicPark3 a certain Spinosaurus]]
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** Visually, the titular Dinocroc appears to be a mix of [[{{Film/Godzilla1998}} Zilla]] and [[Film/JurassicPark3 a certain Spinosaurus]]certain]] ''[[Film/JurassicPark3 Spinosaurus]]''.
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''Dinocroc'' is a [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]] monster movie starring Charles Napier, Creator/CostasMandylor, Creator/JoannaPacula, and Bruce Weitz. Produced by Creator/RogerCorman, it first aired in April 2004.
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''Dinocroc'' is a [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]] monster movie starring Charles Napier, Creator/CharlesNapier, Creator/CostasMandylor, Creator/JoannaPacula, and Bruce Weitz.Creator/BruceWeitz. Produced by Creator/RogerCorman, it first aired in April 2004.
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* BareYourMidriff: The female lead wears a crop top for a certain point in the film.
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''Dinocroc'' is a [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]] monster movie starring Charles Napier, Creator/CostasMandylor, Creator/JoannaPacula, and Bruce Weitz. Produced by Creator/RogerCorman, it first aired in April 2004.
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* {{Expy}}: Dick Sydney, the crocodile hunter. He's supposed to be a herpetologist, but seems to be more of an expy of Crocodile Dundee rather than Steve Irwin.
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** Dick Sydney, the crocodile hunter. He's supposed to be a herpetologist, but seems to be more of an expy of Crocodile Dundee rather than Steve Irwin.
** Dick Sydney, the crocodile hunter. He's supposed to be a herpetologist, but seems to be more of an expy of Crocodile Dundee rather than Steve Irwin.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Many shots are noticeably set up to keep the viewer from seeing the monster interacting with the water's surface.
** The Dinocroc often looks like its not actually standing on the ground
** The Dinocroc often looks like its not actually standing on the ground
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* AnimalWrongsGroup: While using shelter dogs as bait is reprehensible, the heroes are nearly killed and risk preventing a trap for the monster from working by freeing all of them before Dinocroc can be caught. The creature has killed dozens of people at this point.
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* AnimalWrongsGroup: While using shelter dogs as bait is reprehensible, the heroes are nearly killed and risk preventing a trap for the monster from working by freeing all of them before Dinocroc can be caught. The creature has killed dozens of people at this point. Though had the trap failed as a result of this, the first people the creature would've eaten would be the sheriff and his men, so perhaps it evens out.
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* KarmaHoudini: The sheriff faces ''shockingly'' little consequence for using live dogs from the shelter as bait.
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* {{Expy}}: The crocodile hunter. He's supposed to be a herpetologist, but seems to be more of an expy of Crocodile Dundee rather than Steve Irwin.
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* {{Expy}}: The Dick Sydney, the crocodile hunter. He's supposed to be a herpetologist, but seems to be more of an expy of Crocodile Dundee rather than Steve Irwin.
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''Dinocroc'' is a [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]] monster movie. Produced by Creator/RogerCorman, it first aired in April 2004.
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''Dinocroc'' is a [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]] monster movie.movie starring Charles Napier, Creator/CostasMandylor, and Bruce Weitz. Produced by Creator/RogerCorman, it first aired in April 2004.
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** The novelization mentions that the titular creature is a Sarcosuchus. It refers to this creature as both "a dinosaur" and the "ancestor to modern crocodiles". Neither of these are remotely true: Sarcosuchus is a member of the crocodile clade, but modern crocodilians aren't descended from it, nor is it particularly closely related to them (a similarly large crocodile, Deinosuchus, is far closer). And obviously crocodiles aren't dinosaurs.
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** The novelization mentions that the titular creature is a Sarcosuchus.''Sarcosuchus''. It refers to this creature as both "a dinosaur" and the "ancestor to modern crocodiles". Neither of these are remotely true: Sarcosuchus ''Sarcosuchus'' is a member of the crocodile clade, but modern crocodilians aren't descended from it, nor is it particularly closely related to them (a similarly large crocodile, Deinosuchus, ''Deinosuchus'', is far closer). And obviously crocodiles aren't dinosaurs. [[note]]For a comparison, ''Sarcosuchus'' is as close to modern crocodilians as a koala is to a blue whale.[[/note]]
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* CeilingCling: Bizarrely pulled off by the dinocroc to escape from its pen at the beginning. AccidentallyAccurate as some ancient crocodilians and even some modern species are surprisingly good climbers, especially as infants.
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* CeilingCling: Bizarrely pulled off by the dinocroc to escape from its pen at the beginning. AccidentallyAccurate A case of AccidentallyCorrectWriting as some ancient crocodilians and even some modern species are surprisingly good climbers, especially as infants.
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** Making matters worse, given the description of the creature in the book and the novel's cover, they seemed to have gotten Sarcosuchus confused with a Spinosaurid dinosaur.
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* CeilingCling: Bizarrely pulled off by the dinocroc to escape from its pen at the beginning.
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** Making matters worse, given the description of the creature in the book and the novel's cover, they seemed to have gotten Sarcosuchus ''Sarcosuchus'' confused with a Spinosaurid dinosaur.
* CeilingCling: Bizarrely pulled off by the dinocroc to escape from its pen at the beginning. AccidentallyAccurate as some ancient crocodilians and even some modern species are surprisingly good climbers, especially as infants.
* CeilingCling: Bizarrely pulled off by the dinocroc to escape from its pen at the beginning. AccidentallyAccurate as some ancient crocodilians and even some modern species are surprisingly good climbers, especially as infants.
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* InformedSpecies: In the novelization, it's only ever identified as a Sarchosuchus Imperator, not as a genetic hybrid. Problem is, the actual creature looks nothing like a Sarchosuchus (even its head is very , very wrong), more resembling a Raisuchid or Spinosaurid. To make matters worse, the cover of the book shows an animal that is pretty clearly a Spinosaurus (and nothing like the movie monster).
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* InformedSpecies: In the novelization, it's only ever identified as a Sarchosuchus Imperator, ''Sarchosuchus imperator'', not as a genetic hybrid. Problem is, the actual creature looks nothing like a Sarchosuchus (even its head is very , very wrong), more resembling a Raisuchid or Spinosaurid. To make matters worse, the cover of the book shows an animal that is pretty clearly a Spinosaurus (and nothing like the movie monster). Some material for the movie allays this slightly by stating dinocroc is a hybrid splice between a ''Suchomimus'', ancient crocodilians, and modern crocodiles; which do actually look fairly similar to it.
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* SequelHook: A completely unexplained second dinocroc wanders out of the bushes at the end. The movie's actual "sequel" has nothing to do with it though.
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* PlotRelevantAgeUp: The dinocroc has a ludicrously fast growth rate of growing two feet in length in one day according to the scientists, then grows to the size of a large truck within a few days.
* SequelHook: A completely unexplained second dinocroc wanders out of the bushes at theend. end, assuming its not the same one as before who recovered from its wounds. The movie's actual "sequel" has nothing to do with it though.though, assuming it's not the same individual.
* SequelHook: A completely unexplained second dinocroc wanders out of the bushes at the
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It had a novelization that added a few details to the story.
* ArtisticLicensePalaeontology:
**The novelization mentions that the titular creature is a Sarcosuchus. It refers to this creature as both "a dinosaur" and the "ancestor to modern crocodiles". Neither of these are remotely true: Sarcosuchus is a member of the crocodile clade, but modern crocodilians aren't descended from it, nor is it particularly closely related to them (a similarly large crocodile, Deinosuchus, is far closer). And obviously crocodiles aren't dinosaurs.
** Making matters worse, given the description of the creature in the book and the novel's cover, they seemed to have gotten Sarcosuchus confused with a Spinosaurid dinosaur.
**The novelization mentions that the titular creature is a Sarcosuchus. It refers to this creature as both "a dinosaur" and the "ancestor to modern crocodiles". Neither of these are remotely true: Sarcosuchus is a member of the crocodile clade, but modern crocodilians aren't descended from it, nor is it particularly closely related to them (a similarly large crocodile, Deinosuchus, is far closer). And obviously crocodiles aren't dinosaurs.
** Making matters worse, given the description of the creature in the book and the novel's cover, they seemed to have gotten Sarcosuchus confused with a Spinosaurid dinosaur.
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* {{Gorn}}: though not as much as you'd expect. Though much of it is made rather goofy by the poor CGI.
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* {{Gorn}}: though not as much as you'd expect. Though much Much of it is made rather goofy by the poor CGI.
* InformedSpecies: In the novelization, it's only ever identified as a Sarchosuchus Imperator, not as a genetic hybrid. Problem is, the actual creature looks nothing like a Sarchosuchus (even its head is very , very wrong), more resembling a Raisuchid or Spinosaurid. To make matters worse, the cover of the book shows an animal that is pretty clearly a Spinosaurus (and nothing like the movie monster).
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* SequelHook: A completely unexplained second dinocroc wanders out of the bushes at the end.
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* SequelHook: A completely unexplained second dinocroc wanders out of the bushes at the end. The movie's actual "sequel" has nothing to do with it though.
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Infant Immortality is being rewritten for clarity per TRS decision
. All aversions now go in Death Of A Child.
. All aversions now go in Death Of A Child.* DeathOfAChild: The protagonist's little brother tries to hide from the monster when he gets his entire body gorily devoured in one bite, leaving just his severed head behind.
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* InfantImmortality: Painfully averted. The protagonist's little brother tries to hide from the monster when he gets his entire body gorily devoured in one bite, leaving just his severed head behind.
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* InfantImmortality: Painfully averted. The protagonist's little brother tries to hide from the monster when he gets his head gorily bitten off.
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I found a minor mistake on Heroeslovedogs, it said Tom's son but it's actually his brother.
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* HeroesLoveDogs: Zigzagged. The protagonists don't seem to care that Tom's son's dog is missing early in the movie, but when dogs are used as bait for the monster later they risk their lives to save them.
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* HeroesLoveDogs: Zigzagged. The protagonists don't seem to care that Tom's son's brother's dog is missing early in the movie, but when dogs are used as bait for the monster later they risk their lives to save them.
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* SwallowedWhole: Happens onscreen to the head of the creature's development after she stands in front of it, believing it to be dead.
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The protagonist doesn't have a son.
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* ParentalNeglect: Tom shows an amazing level of disregard for his son. His son's dog runs away at the beginning of the movie. First he's too busy to help look for him, then when the town dog catcher actually comes and recruits him to look for it he spends the entire time flirting. When they actually see the dog they immediately fall in the mud and start playfully wrestling instead of chasing it. When the dinocroc plot shows up he doesn't even check on his son for a full two days [[spoiler: thus completely missing that his son was killed for more than 24 hours.]]
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''Dinocroc'' is a Creator/SciFiChannel monster movie. Produced by Creator/RogerCorman, it first aired in April 2004.
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* InfantImmortality: Painfully averted.
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* InfantImmortality: Painfully averted. The protagonist's little brother tries to hide from the monster when he gets his head gorily bitten off.
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** Visually, the titular Dinocroc appears to be a mix of [[{{Film/Godzilla1998}} Zilla]] and [[Film/JurassicPark3 a certain Spinosaurus]]
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** Unlike real crocs, this one is apparently all about chasing it's prey cross-country
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* AnimalWrongsGroup: While using shelter dogs as bait is reprehensible, the heroes are nearly killed and risk preventing a trap for the monster from working by freeing all of them before Dinocroc can be caught. The creature has killed dozens of people at this point.
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''Dinocroc'' is a Creator/SciFiChannel monster movie. Produced by Creator/RogerCorman, it first aired in April 2004.
A mutated "Chimeric Crocodillian" escapes from a genetic research lab and begins attacking people around the town. The local dog catcher, Diane Harper, teams up with a welding artist, Tom Banning, and an Australian crocodile hunter to catch the animal.
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!This film includes examples of
* CeilingCling: Bizarrely pulled off by the dinocroc to escape from its pen at the beginning.
* ConflictBall: The sheriff decides to use the dogs from his daughter's animal shelter as bait for no explainable reason.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Using a cutting torch to remove handcuffs.
* {{Expy}}: The crocodile hunter. He's supposed to be a herpetologist, but seems to be more of an expy of Crocodile Dundee rather than Steve Irwin.
* {{Fanservice}}: Lots of attractive girls and guys in beachwear.
* {{Gorn}}: though not as much as you'd expect. Though much of it is made rather goofy by the poor CGI.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Zigzagged. The protagonists don't seem to care that Tom's son's dog is missing early in the movie, but when dogs are used as bait for the monster later they risk their lives to save them.
* InfantImmortality: Painfully averted.
* KickTheDog: There's a lot of near literal dog kicking in the movie. An early JerkassVictim is commanded by the head researcher to put out food for the escaped dinocroc, so he adopts a dog from the shelter to feed it. A three legged dog, no less.
** The sheriff also does this as part of the final trap for the monster, using all the animal shelter's dogs as bait. He then handcuffs the main characters (including his daughter) when they object.
* LegoGenetics: The monster is apparently a mixture of a crocodile and an unnamed dinosaur that's "related to the crocodile". The result mostly looks like older depictions of Postosuchus.
* MadeOfIron: The crocodile hunter actually calls it "made of steel" after he breaks his knife off in the monster's face.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Halfway between this and a dinosaur.
* OminousLatinChanting: The soundtrack does this constantly. It seems like they want to set the dinocroc up as the antichrist.
* OnceIsNotEnough: The initial attempt to kill dinocroc only looks like it worked. [[spoiler: It takes a train to finish it.]]
* ParentalNeglect: Tom shows an amazing level of disregard for his son. His son's dog runs away at the beginning of the movie. First he's too busy to help look for him, then when the town dog catcher actually comes and recruits him to look for it he spends the entire time flirting. When they actually see the dog they immediately fall in the mud and start playfully wrestling instead of chasing it. When the dinocroc plot shows up he doesn't even check on his son for a full two days [[spoiler: thus completely missing that his son was killed for more than 24 hours.]]
* SequelHook: A completely unexplained second dinocroc wanders out of the bushes at the end.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Many shots are noticeably set up to keep the viewer from seeing the monster interacting with the water's surface.
* SuperPersistentPredator: The number of people this thing apparently needs to eat in a day is huge.
* TooDumbToLive: Many characters, but especially the researcher that causes the initial escape. After one of the experimental creatures kills the other, she walks right into its enclosure and promptly dies.
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A mutated "Chimeric Crocodillian" escapes from a genetic research lab and begins attacking people around the town. The local dog catcher, Diane Harper, teams up with a welding artist, Tom Banning, and an Australian crocodile hunter to catch the animal.
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!This film includes examples of
* CeilingCling: Bizarrely pulled off by the dinocroc to escape from its pen at the beginning.
* ConflictBall: The sheriff decides to use the dogs from his daughter's animal shelter as bait for no explainable reason.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Using a cutting torch to remove handcuffs.
* {{Expy}}: The crocodile hunter. He's supposed to be a herpetologist, but seems to be more of an expy of Crocodile Dundee rather than Steve Irwin.
* {{Fanservice}}: Lots of attractive girls and guys in beachwear.
* {{Gorn}}: though not as much as you'd expect. Though much of it is made rather goofy by the poor CGI.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Zigzagged. The protagonists don't seem to care that Tom's son's dog is missing early in the movie, but when dogs are used as bait for the monster later they risk their lives to save them.
* InfantImmortality: Painfully averted.
* KickTheDog: There's a lot of near literal dog kicking in the movie. An early JerkassVictim is commanded by the head researcher to put out food for the escaped dinocroc, so he adopts a dog from the shelter to feed it. A three legged dog, no less.
** The sheriff also does this as part of the final trap for the monster, using all the animal shelter's dogs as bait. He then handcuffs the main characters (including his daughter) when they object.
* LegoGenetics: The monster is apparently a mixture of a crocodile and an unnamed dinosaur that's "related to the crocodile". The result mostly looks like older depictions of Postosuchus.
* MadeOfIron: The crocodile hunter actually calls it "made of steel" after he breaks his knife off in the monster's face.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Halfway between this and a dinosaur.
* OminousLatinChanting: The soundtrack does this constantly. It seems like they want to set the dinocroc up as the antichrist.
* OnceIsNotEnough: The initial attempt to kill dinocroc only looks like it worked. [[spoiler: It takes a train to finish it.]]
* ParentalNeglect: Tom shows an amazing level of disregard for his son. His son's dog runs away at the beginning of the movie. First he's too busy to help look for him, then when the town dog catcher actually comes and recruits him to look for it he spends the entire time flirting. When they actually see the dog they immediately fall in the mud and start playfully wrestling instead of chasing it. When the dinocroc plot shows up he doesn't even check on his son for a full two days [[spoiler: thus completely missing that his son was killed for more than 24 hours.]]
* SequelHook: A completely unexplained second dinocroc wanders out of the bushes at the end.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Many shots are noticeably set up to keep the viewer from seeing the monster interacting with the water's surface.
* SuperPersistentPredator: The number of people this thing apparently needs to eat in a day is huge.
* TooDumbToLive: Many characters, but especially the researcher that causes the initial escape. After one of the experimental creatures kills the other, she walks right into its enclosure and promptly dies.
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