DENNIS THE MENACE: DINOSAUR HUNTER (1987)
I...have been burned. It's my own fault. I bought this movie without doing any research on it. If I had done my due diligence, I would have discovered that Dennis the Menace: Dinosaur Hunter doesn't contain any dinosaurs. There are dinosaur bones, and one of the characters is a paleontologist, but that's about it. So why am I writing this review? To punish myself, mainly. I can't believe that I thought Dennis the Menace not only hunted dinosaurs in this thing, but that some studio went out of their way to create dinosaurs for Dennis (y'know, the menace) to hunt. Victor DiMatteia stars as the troublesome tyke. He finds a fossil in the front yard, so his father has an old college buddy take a look at it. The buddy turns out to be a parasite. Not literally, although that would have been an interesting plot twist. Eventually, the Menace clan runs afoul of an evil corporation (dear God) who wants to convert their neighborhood into a dino-themed amusement park.
Guess what? This was a pilot for a potential series. You don't have to believe me, and I don't blame you if you don't, but it aired on September 11th. That makes so much sense. Actually, it's not terrible. I remember the 1993 version of Dennis the Menace being more cartoonish. Here, Dennis is a pain, but he doesn't seem worthy of a comic strip. Mr. Wilson is given a fairly involved subplot. His wife goes to work at a candy store to pay for their second honeymoon. It's high drama. Yeah, I don't have much to offer on Dennis the Menace: Dinosaur Hunter. Random trivia!? The little girl who plays Margaret grew up to be a porn star. I wish I didn't know that.
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