I am what I am, and what I am needs no excuses.

Alligator eyes shining in the sunset, Myakka River State Park, Florida

Okay 1) definitely a movie. Undeniably a movie.

2) definitely the nineties. Deeeeeply nineties.

3) okay so the story is completely bonkers. A girl hatches from an egg and gets kidnapped into an alternate dimension where the dinosaurs evolved and President Koopa is trying to merge the two dimensions and take over our world because theirs is dying? Or something?? Objectively unhinged. But it's well structured. Various important plot bits are set up well in earlier scenes, like the importance of the fungus and the jump boots. Like, structurally it works okay?

4) you just gotta, like, roll with it.

5) man, the thing about all the movie villains in the nineties being based on That Fuckin' Guy finds supporting evidence here. And they are NOT subtle.