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| Whoopi Goldberg | ... | Katie Coltrane | |
| Armin Mueller-Stahl | ... | Elizar Kane | |
| Juliet Landau | ... | Dr. Veronica Shade | |
| Bud Cort | ... | Spinner | |
| Stephen McHattie | ... | Edge | |
| George Newbern | ... | Theodore Rex (voice) | |
| Carol Kane | ... | Molly Rex (voice) | |
| Richard Roundtree | ... | Commissioner Lynch | |
| Jack Riley | ... | Alaric | |
| Peter Mackenzie | ... | Alex Summers | |
| Joe Dallesandro | ... | Rogan | |
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Susie Coelho | ... | Dr. Armitraj |
| Peter Kwong | ... | Toymaker | |
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In a future town a female police detective (Whoopi Goldberg) has to colaborate with Theodore Rex, a genetically generated Tyrannosaurus Rex, in order to investigate the murder of another dinosaure. Written by Volker Boehm
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14 December 1995 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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$33,500,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Theodore Rex (puppet): HaHA! Whoo! Yeah!
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Written by John Didrischen and Gary Grebstein
Performed by Kitsch in Sync
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Jonathan R. Betuel retired from directing after this film. He felt the studio didn't market it correctly. See more »Goofs
When Katie talks to Theodore about his breath, it's a very obvious voice-over that doesn't fit at all. See more »Quotes
Katie Coltrane: I love when he does that.Theodore Rex (puppet): HaHA! Whoo! Yeah!
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Movies about dinosaurs can be entertaining. So can Whoopi Goldberg movies. But Whoopi AND dinosaurs?
After the first 20 minutes of "Theodore Rex", I had come to one conclusion: this movie is evil. Evil, vile, wicked and reprehensible in its spite for the audience. Nothing this bad is made by accident; this is the visual equivalent of a torture chamber.
First of all, Whoopi does not make good action movies (watch "Fatal Beauty" if you think I'm lying), but the film makers don't care - she's a tough cop here, yet again.
Seen a million cop buddy flicks this week? Well, here's number one million and one, pal.
Don't like cute, humanistic animated dinosaurs since that Spielberg TV show about them? Too bad, here's another one and he's a cop, too!
You one of those people that hates car chases, shoot-outs, sloppy dialogue, boring futuristic FX and seeing talented people (Goldberg, Mueller-Stahl, Roundtree) stuck in a movie that looks like a tax write-off? A BIG tax write-off?
And you read this review all the way to the end. You DESERVE a sequel. Seriously.
No stars, not a one. And if they really make a sequel to "Theodore Rex", Hollywood deserves to be attacked a whole herd of wise-cracking foam rubber dinosaurs.
Now, I'd pay to see that.