Jurassic Park’s monumental success turned the Tyrannosaurus rex into the biggest pop culture commodity of 1993. Michael Crichton’s novel returned to the top of The New York Times Best Seller List three years after its original publication, arcade game Cadillacs and Dinosaurs received the Saturday morning animated treatment, and even B-movie maestro Roger Corman got in on the act with the nonsensical schlockfest Carnosaur. A feature-length dinosaur tale from Amblimation, the animation studio founded by the man who’d sparked this wave of Dino-Mania, should have been a home run.
