Here is a cut-rate family caper aimed at younger kids, very much not to be confused with the Jurassic Park dino-thriller franchise. It’s actually a sequel to a film from 2019 that doesn’t appear to have been released in the UK; the awful acting on show here might explain why. It takes a few scenes to acclimatise to actors delivering lines with tight tranquillised smiles, like kidnap victims being forced to put on a show, gun held to their backs. Though to be fair, the sub-standard animated dinosaurs aren’t much cop either.
Sophie Proctor plays teenager Wendy, an only child who resents her parents taking in a younger kid called Curtis (Myles Currin-Moore) from the orphanage for the Christmas holidays. Wendy is furious when Curtis tags along on a visit to her kooky gran’s house in the woods. But pretty soon she lets him in on a secret: every full moon a portal door opens, and out wanders a herd of friendly dinosaurs.
