This is one of the great movies of the 80s in MY collection that I think about all the time.

Baby: The Lost Legend is a great film but it is just to sad. I have seen this movie many times and each time I cry. I don`t want to go into detail.

A note to Parents: If your children don`t like to see Dinosaurs get hurt then please don`t show them this because it will upset them and yes the scenes are that emotional. I recommend to show you kids either or all three films of Jurassic Park,The Lost World: Jurassic Park II and Jurassic Park /// if your kids like to see Dinosaurs at their best and not getting hurt. I`M not saying Baby: The Lost Legend is a bad film,no it isn`t at all. It has a tremendous build up,a good story,good acting,wonderful looking Dinosaurs,excellent score by Jerry Goldsmith, and it does have a good ending but its what happens before that. Please take MY advise or view the film before your children do please.

With rubber dinosaur costumes that barely conceal the zippers and seams, the phony look of the creatures in this Disney fiasco make earlier dinosaurs on screen look like Spielberg creations. It's a complete "E.T." rip-off that probably had Spielberg biding his time on his own dinosaur film after this flew in and tanked, showing "how not to" make a movie. Black and White characterizations feature two leads far too good (William Katt, adequate; Sean Young, not even passable) and the major bad guy (Patrick McGoohan) written like a serial villain.

Rumors of large dinosaur size creatures make the rounds of the three scientists, and they head to Africa with different motivations. By chance, Katt and Young find the dinosaur family first, but when McGoohan and his bad men step in, it's an apparent demise for the dino parents and up to our bland heroes to protect the cute little rubber baby buggy bumper from harm.

Overloaded with silly scenes mixed with violent montages, this is a film that doesn't quite know what kind of mood it wants to be. Close-ups of the baby dinosaur makes its body just look more and more ridiculous. Baby dino gets into all sorts of scrapes, interrupting romantic moments between the two and even getting his head caught in Katt's underwear. The acting isn't at all interesting, and that's a matter not only of the lack of chemistry between the two leads but the leading lady's bland performance and the horrible script they are given to speak.

The pacing is often quite slow, and the set seems rather forced with its greeny foliage too perfectly set up. All this really has going for it is an interesting score by veteran composer Jerry Goldsmith, a few pretty moments in the jungle photography and some scattered laughs that had me grumbling at myself for laughing at the juvenile nature of them. It is more than obvious from the start what will happen, and unfortunately, it doesn't come soon enough. Stick with the first two "Jurassic Park" films, or seek out the first two versions of "The Lost World", or even 1960's "Dinosaurus" which at least had charm.

For those who are too young to know this or for those who have forgotten, the Disney company went almost down the tubes by the end of the 1980s. People were NOT seeing their movies anymore and the company was not producing the usual wholesome material....at least no what people expected. A major problem: profanity.

Yes, the idiots running the Disney movies during that decade would produce films with swear words - including the Lord's name in vain, if you can believe that - interspersed in these "family films." In fact that happens twice here in the first 20 minutes!

This movie, in addition to the language problems, has a nasty tone to it, too, which made it unlikeable almost right from the beginning. Thankfully, Disney woke up and has produced a lot of great material since these decadent '80s movies. ("Touchstone" is Disney, just under another name.)