So much average

Overrated and overhyped

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

What in the world would tempt someone to think up a movie this stupid and bizarre? They must've been taking some mighty strong drugs to think up a plot this strange. A guy's brain is put in an animatronic T-Rex by mad scientists, and the guy's girlfriend goes searching for a cadaver to put his brain in. This might be the most horrible premise for a movie ever!!!Tammy (Denise Richards) has a happy life. She's the head cheerleader at school, and she has a great new boyfriend, Michael (Paul Walker). The only problem is her old boyfriend Billy, who's pretty much a psychopath. Billy and his gang of thugs kidnaps Michael and they drop him off at the Wild Animal Park where he is mauled nearly to death by a lion. When in the hospital, his live body is harvested by mad scientists who put his brain in an animatronic T-Rex. Now Michael as a T-Rex must get revenge on those who wronged him and find a way to communicate with his girlfriend Tammy.Everything about this movie is just strange. The acting is bad, with Denise Richards at her worst, constantly giggling like a braindead idiot, and Paul Walker acting as doofy as he possibly can. Theo Forsett plays the comic relief and seems to be doing a Little Richard impression. The whole movie is ridiculous, the ending being the dumbest and worst part.Trying to classify this movie is hard. It's mainly a (bad) comedy full of gay jokes and silly unfunny slapstick. When Michael's brain is put in the T-Rex, you would expect, in a lighthearted comedy like this, for him to get revenge on the people who wronged him through funny pranks. Maybe lift up the bad guys and scare them a lot. Not here. Michael brutally murders them instead, including crushing a guy, and what sounds like ripping off the genitals of one poor fellow. It blew me away that this is how the bullies were taken care of.Another extremely strange scene involves Tammy and her gay friend Byron looking through the morgue for cadavers. The morgue simply says "Morgue" on it, and it's unlocked with bodies just lying out. These characters go through the morgue messing with the dead bodies very disrespectfully. Why was the Wild Animal Park featured here? Did they think that putting the zoo in this movie would bring more tourists in, because I would think it would do the opposite. Some kids break in by cutting a lock on a small gate. Behind the small gate is an exhibit full of cheetahs, jaguars and lions (who all live together?). These kids drive several cars onto the lot and drive off and it takes minutes for a worker to find what's happened! This just doesn't make any sense, and if this is a true portrayal, I fear for the lives of people that visit that park.This was just one of many dinosaur movies made right after Jurassic Park, and of them it's the least remembered (Which is what it deserves).My rating: BOMB/****. 80 mins. PG-13 for violence.

Tammy and The T-Rex is just a great film, in my opinion. Understanding that it's hard for people to characterize dinosaurs in their movies, this movie did an alright job. I did not see anything that bad about this movie, because while it is cheesy and overrated in some scenes, it's total fun and a complete delight. There's even a couple of scenes I could have dealt without, but still they're in there, and quite frankly the makers of this film did a great job with what they had to work with and created a nostalgic, yet entertaining flick that is fun to watch from beginning to end. Denise Richards being an excellent actress portrays Tammy pretty lovably, as well.This movie is very fun and I like it very much. Not many people might have heard of this movie and I believe it is their loss, really, because they're missing out on a very interesting movie with a decent story and plot that you can just get a good kick out of. Corny, fun, interesting and light-hearted are the perfect ways to sum up this movie, and if you haven't seen it, of course don't expect a masterpiece, but you will enjoy it for it's wacky characteristics and overall cheesiness, yet emotional effectiveness.

This movie is horrible. It is all-out horrid. It makes Carnosaur look good! Worst movie made for teens EVER. Even the Godson out shines this horrible thing. It's about a scientist implanting a brain inside a robotic dinosaur's head.Why the heck does he want to do that? I bet that scientist didn't even finish high school!The acting, the script, the cinematography... how do these people expect us to buy this? When I saw it at the theater (and finally review it today) on the opening day, the theater gave me a refund and a free movie pass, and I didn't even ask for a refund! This is a taste of how truly horrible this film is.

Denise Richards and Paul Walker are two rising young stars with lots of talent. The first time I saw Richards was in the 1997 sci/fi epic "Starship Troopers" and since then she has appeared in "Wild Things", "Drop Dead Gorgeous", and the recent James Bond film "The World Is Not Enough". The first time I saw Walker was in the 1998 Disney release "Meet the Deedles". Since then, he has appeared in "Pleasantville", "Varsity Blues", "She's All That", and most recently, "The Skulls". But I find it hard to believe that a couple of years before these two actors started showing up in these movies, they starred in "Tammy and the T-Rex". I saw this movie on the USA station not too long ago, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. This movie is a complete mess. The first 15 minutes of the movie were O.K. which starts out as a love story between two teens (played by Richards and Walker). Then the movie takes a disasterous turn after the opening 15 minutes by turning into a sci-fi/horror/comedy with no wit and no imagination. The comedic moments are not funny, and one scene in the movie (involving Paul Walker) made me cringe big time (if you've seen this movie you probably know what scene I'm talking about). The filmmakers should have stuck with the love story then they might have had a good movie on their hands. But no. They had to throw in the plot with the dinosaur. Ridiculous. If you really want to see a good movie staring Denise Richards, see "Starship Troopers" or "The World Is Not Enough" (even though most people didn't like her in the latter). If you want to see Paul Walker do some good acting, see "Varsity Blues". Don't waste your time with this nonsense. I wouldn't be surprised that if you walked up to both of these actors and asked them "what was the worst movie you ever made?" both Richards and Walker would say this one. I'm sure they regret that they took part in this disaster. 1/2* (out of four)