Virtually every review you'll find here for this film mentions that it's a movie made for kids, and I'm not going to dispute that. It's two principal characters are a pair of young teens, stranded at different times on a mysterious island shrouded in mists that have a unique ability to draw in outside influences, like planes bearing supplies, but once their mission is accomplished, they generally crash into a heap with no further contact with the outside world. The young girl Kate (Kate Rasmussen),born in 1940, is still a teenager on the present day island, while the newest arrival Lucas (Darius Williams),relies on her savvy to navigate early forays into the jungle like setting. The dinosaurs of the story stray from your typical T-Rexes, Brontosauri and the usual expected monsters in favor of feathered and rather psychedelically colored raptors, most of them resembling giant walking birds. The quest to get back home to the modern era falls to the scientific mind of Lucas, who concocts a plan using a magical crystal which leads them to a cave full of energy releasing formations that react to a specific sound, mimicked by Kate's pet sinothysaur Mimos (don't ask, you'll have to watch the picture).

While the story and graphics do tend toward the juvenile, it's not really a bad little film if you need something to keep the kiddies entertained. Young boys will probably gravitate to those yucky, scaly, crawling bugs, while girls will most likely find the colorful bird-like dinosaurs fashionable. There are worse dinosaur flicks out there, and of the ones I've seen, this one rates higher on IMDb than "Cowboys vs Dinosaurs" (which I liked for the goofy concept),and "Triassic Hunt" (which really is that bad)!

Journey To Dinosaur Island is an unpretentious kids film with colourful and feathered dinosaurs but a clunky script and under par acting.

Its entertaining and undemanding if watched with an audience of kids as an Australian boy named Lucas who finds himself marooned in a mysterious island with very colourful dinosaurs and finds a girl called Kate who has been on the island seemingly since the 1950s. They try to find a means to escape the island.

This production values are OK, the Australian setting makes the film more novel and at least it has an interesting beginning as Lucas goes one up on his school teacher at class.

The CGI makes this look more like a B picture the special effects are still better than the low grade output from the SyFy channel but you do wonder if visual effects colourist was on acid at the time.

JOURNEY TO DINOSAUR ISLAND is a tiny-budgeted kid's adventure movie from Australia. The script is pedestrian and the story nothing more than a mish mash of previous genre staples and the like; the main thing is to get a couple of kids and have them interacting with various kinds of dinosaur, all of which have a uniform green/blue look. The CGI effects aren't quite as terrible as I had feared - they're better than in your average Asylum movie, for example - but they're still pretty poor, although not as poor as the terrible acting from the child leads.