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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

Posted By: Someonelse
Date: 23 Jun 2011 02:42:28
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
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Genre: Family, Adventure, Sci-Fi | USA

Eight years before the dinosaur mania created by Jurassic Park, Bill L. Norton released this more dinosaur-friendly story about a 10-foot baby dinosaur in dire straits in Africa because Dr. Eric Kiviat (Patrick McGoohan), an evil paleontologist, is after it with a vengeance. He is the nemesis of Dr. Susan Matthews-Loomis (Sean Young) – determined to save the baby from its hunters – and her husband George Loomis (William Katt), a sportswriter who shares her protective instincts. Kiviat has recruited a revolutionary army to help him capture the baby's mother – which they manage to do without killing her. The army has already shot down the father dinosaur, and so their own instincts are far from protective. As the husband and wife and baby dinosaur are united at last in their attempts to survive, the next step is to recapture Mom dinosaur and get away from the army and Kiviat, not an easy feat.

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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

Seen now, over 20 years beyond its first release, Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend both benefits and suffers from all the water that has metaphorically passed under the bridge. At the time, and since, it suffered from bad critical press, starting with Roger Ebert, who clearly loathed it. Others have castigated it for its lack of Jurassic Park style CGI dinosaurs, some have found its uncomfortable mix of humour and violence distracting, many find its depiction of the natives racist because some of them act in a negative and militarially irresponsible manner and even more seem generally disgusted that what they believe should be a child-friendly Disney movie contains its fair share of adult-oriented sexual suggestion, bare native breasts and immoral nastiness.

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

Well, we perhaps don't care as much any more – or don't need to – because watching Baby now isn't a disastrous experience at all. We've seen plenty of unrealistic CGI dinosaurs, experienced decades of confronting violence in kid's movies, and no longer feel quite so sensitive about depicting individuals within certain ethnic minorities as flawed human beings. This film was made 8 years before Jurassic Park revolutionised the cinematic depiction of dinosaurs; it's a bit pointless to demand more from it than was technically possible at the time. What it did achieve through animatronics and suit-puppetry may not look "real", but it was rather effective anyway, given a level of willingness in the audience to suspend disbelief.

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

The film certainly looks good, the beautiful location settings being a clear positive. And the way the natives are played seems reasonable enough, too, now that we don't have to be so precious in our PC attitudes. They aren't stereotyped, but have varied personalities and motivations, just like the white characters. I was especially impressed by the tribal "chief", who gives a positive and humorously intelligent performance that I found insightful and believable. I fail to see what the critics were objecting to; the tribal natives play a positive role in the story, and that the black military guys come over as unethical, careless and brutal need not be attributed to racism.

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

The story itself is less The Lost World than it is Gorillas in the Mist. It tracks the search for a "legendary" creature that several of those involved – the "good" paleontological student (Sean Young) and the "evil" professor out to exploit the find at any cost (Patrick McGoohan) – believe to be a prehistoric hangover: brontosaurs in the flesh. When we meet them, these giant monsters don't act like monsters; rather they seem like ordinary creatures that will tolerate humanity as long as they're not given any reason not to, much the way, for example, Dian Fossey's gorillas were willing to accept and befriend her. The killing of the father brontosaurus is brutal and saddening – as is the death of Bambi's parents in a Disney movie generally accepted as being OK for kids – and though the presentation of the "hatchling", Baby, may be a little ET-esque and sentimental, it remains convincing enough throughout and occasionally touching. Meanwhile William Katt plays his part with the wit and eccentric charm he was known for then, providing an ordinary and slightly reluctant hero to help in the struggle to save Baby and his mother from an ecologically and ethically irresponsible fate.

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

A final comment for the giant monster film fan: though the dinosaurs in this dinosaurs-in-the-modern-world epic aren’t presented as monsters, the mother brontosaur is given a chance to do the classic monster rampage as she desperately tries to rescue her baby, Gorgo-fashion – raging through a jungle village if not a metropolitan city. And she does a pretty good job of it, too, all things considered.
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