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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767049047
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767049047
Label: A&E Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Running Time: 150 minutes
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 06, 2002
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Not the Steven Spielberg blockbuster, this Lost World is a splendid 2001 BBC TV dramatization of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the mustachioed big-game hunter who faces an allosaur with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée.
As usual, the adaptation adds a woman--orphaned jungle girl Elaine Cassidy--to the expedition, and an interesting villain (religious fanatic Peter Falk) beefs up the travelogue by marooning Challenger's gang on the South American plateau where dinosaurs, cavemen, and Indians coexist eventfully. The Walking with Dinosaurs-style effects work well for the TV frame, but the real success is in integrating the adventuring with subtle eco-awareness, complex character interplay, and the reliable wonder of soaring pteranodons and carnosaur attacks. --Kim Newman
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
The special effects are mixed. They look good in some scenes. In others, they look obviously fake. For example, the "ape people" look exactly like people wearing masks. The acting is the weakest link. It's below average.
**** SPOILERS. DO NOT READ this if you HAVE NOT WATCHED the MOVIE.
For example, in the last scene, one of the adventurers was stabbed. He sacrified himself by staying behind to cover the withdrawal of his friends. However, his acting was so stiff and unconvincing ... Read More
Rating: -
The BBC's 2001 version of Arthur Conan Doyle's oft-imitated The Lost World is better than most (not saying much considering the low budgets and abysmal special effects of most versions over the past half century) but it still takes plenty of liberties with the source material. Bob Hoskins' irritable Professor Challenger and James Fox's Professor Summerlee (played as a sly impersonation of vowel-strangling art critic Brian Sewell) are faithful enough, but once again a new female character has been written into ... Read More
Rating: -
If you make a point of calling attention to the rampant anti-Christian bias in modern movies and television long enough, you will eventually encounter the only possible lucid counter argument -- not every fictional character is intended as a commentary; sometimes a bad Christian character is just an interesting character, nothing more. There are two responses to this, one general, one specific. The general one is, "Fine, explain why the ratio of 'good' Christian characters to 'bad' Christian characters works ... Read More
Rating: -
Wonderful special effects, a glorious location for filming (New Zealand) - Lord of the Rings trilogy filmed there as well. Some violence, obviously, but also an interesting - but wholly boring, to me - section on an Indian tribe vs. the veritable missing link of (semi-canibalistic) ape-men (they eat the tribesmen for protein). The interesting juxtaposition, however, shows how both species have value, and there is an argument on-screen about the treatment of the ape-men in particular, to let them live or to let ... Read More
Rating:  -
I read Doyle's "The Lost World" when in college, and have been waiting for a full-length movie adaptation of it since then. Finally, this adaptation came out, first on cable, and then on DVD. Seeing it twice, I was disappointed both times. First, the movie plot is nowhere near the book's plot. Extra characters have been included that should not have been, probably out of political correctness. Some of the special effects also looked kind of fake; for example some of the dinosaurs moved awkwardly. The only memorable ... Read More
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