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Dino King

Original title: Jeom-bak-i: Han-ban-do-eui Gong-ryong 3D
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 28m
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5.5/10
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Dino King (2012)
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A lonely Tarbosaurus named Spekles grows up into a world surrounded by dangers and must fight the One-eye'd monster that once orphaned him.A lonely Tarbosaurus named Spekles grows up into a world surrounded by dangers and must fight the One-eye'd monster that once orphaned him.A lonely Tarbosaurus named Spekles grows up into a world surrounded by dangers and must fight the One-eye'd monster that once orphaned him.

  • Director
    • Han Sang-Ho
  • Writers
    • Young Kyu Lee
    • Han Sang-Ho
  • Stars
    • Lee Hyung-suk
    • Goo Ja-Hyeong
    • Sin Yong-woo
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    940
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    • Director
      • Han Sang-Ho
    • Writers
      • Young Kyu Lee
      • Han Sang-Ho
    • Stars
      • Lee Hyung-suk
      • Goo Ja-Hyeong
      • Sin Yong-woo
    • 19User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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      Sin Yong-woo
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          • Han Sang-Ho
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          • Young Kyu Lee
          • Han Sang-Ho
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        10gilgoose

        A story of love, loss, revenge, and hope

        As a dinosaur enthusiast, I can comfortably call this movie the Citizen Kane of dinosaur movies. With dynamic characters and a riveting story that seamlessly tied in adult themes (love, death, and revenge) to a children's movie, I can safely call this movie a future classic. Every frame and line of dialogue is pure 24k GOLD. The one-line zingers keeps the audience on the edge of their seat for the entire movie. One of the best movies OF ALL TIME. The movie can be thoroughly enjoyed by a viewing by yourself or with a group of friends. 11/10 would recommend, can't wait for the sequel coming this summer! I will certainly have a showing of this in my college's dinosaur club.
        bluey-13727

        I have no idea how to feel about this movie

        I haven't written any reviews, so this is my first.

        I have no idea how to feel about this movie. Its presented in a childlike way, as if its pretending to be a kiddy movie. But I think this might be the most depressing and sad movie I've ever seen...

        No it doesn't have blood, but it has child murder, genocide, starvation, drowning in tar, babies getting squished by rocks, whole family death, whole family death again, throwing babies off a cliff, pack hunting, killing of helpless dinos, stampedes of dinosaurs falling off cliffs, volcano erupting and balls of fire smashing running dinos, more stampedes of dinos running off cliffs, and abandoning your family to be feasted upon by rapters.

        This is not a kids movie.
        9kinadismith

        Underrated dino movie

        I enjoyed the movie a lot watched it in 2012 when I came out and my opinion still hasn't changed after rewatching. It does have its flaws the narration can be kinda annoying at sometimes but the story is good better than the walking with dinosaurs narration tbh.
        9Abtin_AB

        Not for kids....

        This movie is really well made. I seen it a long time ago and i think that was really good. A sad and harsh story with hope and love. Dont miss it.
        4mike-ryan455

        A kiddie dinosaur movie when it could have been better

        Tarbosaurus was one of those movies where the technology was excellent but the movie wasn't. Right now, IMDb is running 3.8 points on this, and as I am a lover of dinosaurs I was merciful and gave it that much.

        The movie comes from South Korea and their animation was really good. Their sound effects were generally good too. Unfortunately they ruined it all with an overly anthropomorphic set of cutesy characters. Oh, the fun dinosaur family. Single Mom, oldest son, younger two daughters and then the little boy. Oh how cute.

        The dinosaurs were also far too intelligent. Note the boulder being used as a weapon against the ankylosaur. Tool using dinosaurs, come on! The motivations were not logical for predators. They took unnecessary chances and they wasted opportunities.

        For a movie out within the last few years, they also messed up a lot on Dinosaur facts. They put the movie at 80 million years ago and have velociraptors. The velociraptor found were from 75 to 71 million years ago. The velociraptors also had big feathers on their arms. They showed them with a "mohawk punk rocker" bit of feathers but that's all. Worse yet, they showed protoceratops and pukyongosaurus. They were from the EARLY cretaceous, tens of millions of years earlier. They said the torosaurus (like a triceratops) broke off its horns and showed them as hollow. The "horns" of ceratopsians were solid bone, not hollow horn.

        I could go on and on, but you get the picture. They were so close but they blew it.

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        • Trivia
          This movie has many Lion King references.
        • Goofs
          Tylosaurus is shown to be several times the size of a Tyrannosaurus, with One-Eye fitting into its mouth. This is an immense overestimate of its size, as in reality, Tylosaurus wasn't much bigger than Tyrannosaurus.
        • Crazy credits
          Instead of people for the cast or the names of the people who did the voice over, they list the different types of dinosaurs. (Velociraptor, therizinosaurus, microraptors, etc.)
        • Connections
          Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Strangest Prehistoric Creatures (2016)

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        • Release date
          • January 26, 2012 (South Korea)
        • Country of origin
          • South Korea
        • Official sites
          • Official site (Japan)
          • Official site (South Korea)
        • Language
          • Korean
        • Also known as
          • Speckles: The Tarbosaurus
        • Production company
          • CJ Entertainment
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          • $8,828,562
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        • Runtime
          1 hour 28 minutes
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