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• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very nice, but can't they do a proper re-make?, April 10, 1999

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This review is from: Lost World [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It's unbelievable that, in this age of CGI and other such special effects and technology, th 1925 silent black-and-white version of Conan Doyle's masterpiece is still the best version. That said, this version starts off very promisingly and there is some excellent acting, though Challenger comes across as far too soft and nothing like the fearsome figure he was in the book. And whre is Roxton? Presumably a big-game hunter wouldn't be very nice. Everything in this film is 'nice'. What realy lets the film down, however, are the cheap, unconvincing dinosaurs. There's on good sequence near a lake but otherwise it's all pretty pathetic. There are hardly any dinosaurs actualy in it, the tyrannosaur only ever visible from the waist upwards and seemingly frozen on the spot. This film has its good moments, but it's really just another might-have-been. It only gets three stars because it's better than that dire 1960 version.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed this ! It Was Fun!, March 27, 2009

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Lorenzo M. in the Hollywood CA Area "Movie Wa... (North Hollywood, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Lost World (DVD)

Made over 20 years ago, this is the retelling of a classic and has a bonus - the sequel that came after it is included.

Starring some acting legends - John-Ryse Davies (Indiana Jones 1 & 3, Sliders), David Warner (Star Trek V & VI, Time After Time, Time Bandits) and the then unknown but always working Eric McCormack (Will and Grace) the adventure takes them on a journey to prove the lost world exists. Eric is quite good and funny in the role as the reporter looking for the scoop!

Harmony Gold is the production company and the special effects are a little trite, but the chemistry of the characters is fun and the story is basically true to the original. There are a few additions that they need to give license to so the story could be more timely.

Filled with action, suspense, drama and humor - it is a 90 minute romp through Africa to find the most artificial looking Dinosaurs I have ever seen. But ignoreing the technology of the late 80's..it is is fun.

The three disc set includes the sequal which furthers the adventure sof the six travelers complete with their idiosyncracies and issues and an even more glorious threat - man will destroy the Dinosaurs in the lost world!

The third disc is an only early 80's movie "The Mummy's Revenge" - A very bad B type film with gory effects and artificial mummy's . I laughed a lot but it was fun to see the 80's wardrobe and haircuts.

This is a great price for an okay movie. And another telling of a classic story. 3-27-09

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Special Effects ? Hardly special..., June 4, 2005

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Richard Brookes "Rumpled Writer" (San Francisco Bay area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost World (DVD)

The only reason I could give this film as many as 2 stars is due to the (over?)acting of John Rhys-Davies. I just like the guy. The story was growing whiskers when your grandfather read the book. You know the drill - professor discovers an isolated plateau in deepest, darkest Africa and sees (gasp) dinosaurs therein. His expedition is diverted from going further by an attack perpetrated by his guide. He returns to London having lost his pictures, notes and everything and when he tells his colleagues about his discovery, they laugh him out of the Royal Zoological Society or whatever. (Dinosaurs? You've been hitting the sherry again, old chap) But by a clever ruse, he gets his most vocal opponent to agree to mount an expedition to go back to the "lost world" thus proving the prof's wild story.
So far, so good. This is where things begin to go downhill. The expedition is joined by a London journalist and a wealthy American photographer who for some reason agrees to fund the entire trip. She sort of adds the love interest, if there actually is any. When the expedition does reach the "lost world," the flick hits rock bottom. There are "man eating" dinosaurs, a local tribe that worships them, characters falling into pterodactyl caves, attacks by hostile tribes, friendly tribes that must be saved and even more hackneyed devices that have cluttered up genre movies since before King Kong and right up to the present. The special effects are 1)pterodactyls soaring seen from a great distance (probably stock footage), 2)tyrannosaur heads popping up out of the foliage, 3) dinosaur eggs, 4)cute muppet-type hatchling dinosaurs 5)and so forth. "Jurassic Park" it is NOT!
At the final scene in the Royal Zoological Society meeting to honor the prof, there were still naysayers that said pictures and eyewinesses meant nothing, the "lost world" was still a hoax. The group then produced a basket out of which the ever-so-cute baby dino pokes its lovable head. Everyone present in the hall gasped with surprise and seemed satisfied with this living proof of the prof's "lost world." I wanted to shout out "It's a puppet, you fools."