You can tell those reptilians are absolute savages because instead of chasing the protagonists running away they spent the climax torturing and brutally killing the yeti.
The effects and plot of this movie are a small love letter to the sumptuous and wacky adventure movies of the past century, it particularly reminds me of At the Earth's Core (1976), but unfortunately it went on too long on building and showing the "lore" for the creatures, after already taking much time…