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‘The Invisible Raptor’ Review: A See-Through Spoof of ‘Jurassic’-Style Adventures Mostly Goes for Low Jinks
The fantasy comedy sends up family-friendly Spielberg territory. Too bad its humor is largely stuck in a scatological, juvenile middle ground.
Those who grew up watching FX-heavy seriocomic mainstream creature features of the 1980s and ’90s may enjoy the nostalgic fun had at their expense in “ The Invisible Raptor.” Viewers resistant to a landslide of scatological humor, however, may find the laughs pretty slim in this overlong, uninspired monster spoof. Now he’s reduced to wearing Indiana Jones gear, daring children to smell fossilized feces and performing the “Dino Rap Dance” with theme park security guard Denny (David Shackelford) in a green furry costume. “Raptor” has a promising central concept in aiming to spoof the tropes of Spielbergian family fantasy adventures like “Jurassic Park” and “Gremlins,” something Romanian composer Mihai Ciolca’s big original score does with particular aplomb.
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