Only legal action prevented star Whoopi Goldberg withdrawing from this dinosaur fantasy, and the reason is plain to see.

Whoopi, for her sins, is cast as a maverick cop in a near future where the environment is in a major mess and geneticists have resurrected the dinosaurs - in a much more intelligent mutation. So much so, that Whoopi's police partner in a murder hunt is a dino!

It's very silly and not particularly funny. Worse, the special effects are laughable: post-Jurassic Park, men in crude dino suits just won't do.