FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

ultramatt2000-1 As you know, I love dinosaurs. I love the trope of creatures from lost worlds and mankind running into their lands. I saw a clip of it on a commercial when I was watching the live-action 70's SPIDERMAN show that starred Nicholas Hammond. The dinosaurs looked believable. A few years later, when I saw it, I was stricken with awe and wonder by the special effects. The dinosaurs looked real, but what I knew that they were puppets. What I didn't know that how the puppets worked. They looked realistic, but they moved in a stiff manner. If this can only be updated then there would be fluid movements. Originally they wanted to use Jim Danforth and his stop-motion skills, but they said it was too expensive and time-consuming. Special effects aside, they story is great and has that Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure-like feel to it. It is incredible and I will never forget the caveman Bo-lu! I keep quoting him until this day. When this movie came out, The New York Times recommended this movie in case JAWS was too scary. If you enjoy DUCKTALES (I know, a reboot is coming out in 2017), then you will enjoy this movie. Bottom line: A must for the dinosaur/monster movie/special effects fan. Even though it got out-shined by JAWS. Rated PG for violence, gore, peril, and some scary scenes.

classicsoncall The movie is based on the 1918 Edgar Rice Burroughs story and is set during the World War I era. I find it interesting that Burroughs' tales start out in one milieu before transitioning into science fiction fantasy; another example would be "John Carter From Mars" which opened with a narrator during the time period of the Civil War. In this tale, Burroughs opines on a lost world he calls Caprona, uncharted and forgotten for two hundred years and set somewhere within the hidden confines of the Antaractic.The adventure begins with the sinking of the twenty thousand ton British freighter Montrose by a German submarine. Survivors of the Montrose manage to find their way aboard the sub as it surfaces and in a highly unlikely maneuver, manage to subdue the German Captain and his crew. Further suspension of disbelief is required as the Brits, along with American Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure) trade control of the sub with the German Von Schoenvorts (John McEnery) once again before they decide they need to work together as their rations and water supply are at minimum, particularly after Tyler's maneuver of torpedoing a German supply ship that was to rendezvous with the submarine. I thought it pretty convenient that Tyler's father had a hand in designing submarines, which in turn gave him an advantage in knowing the sub's machinery and operating mechanisms. What were the odds? Things pick up once the seamen make it through an underwater tunnel that brings them to the tropical land of Caprona. Encountering a Neanderthal type being that becomes sort of a guide, the adventurers run across a variety of dinosaurs from earth's ancient past, including pterodactyls, a diplodocus, plesiosaurus and a couple of allosaurs that they summarily shoot to death. I always wondered in movies like this why the principals begin firing at creatures that aren't posing any particular danger. Perhaps in an attempt to elicit the viewer's sympathy in this regard, another encounter with a styracosaurus ends with the dying creature shedding a tear. The story line offers an interesting concept for one's consideration when biologist Lisa Clayton (Susan Penhaligon) proposes that the land they've encountered is home to animals and human-like beings that represent the various stages of evolution that Earth had gone through. Surmising that if they continue traveling in a northerly direction, they would eventually come across more advanced creatures, the explorers are waylaid in their quest by warring sub-humans and a seismically active environment that leads to a fiery finale. Volcanoes explode and fissures open in the ground that emit fire due to the presence of burning oil.The story doesn't have a typical happy ending for the principal characters, Tyler and Clayton. Left stranded on purpose by a vengeful German who opposes his Captain, the pair can only look on in astonishment as the submarine is hijacked, but their amazement is tempered when the sub is destroyed during the volcanic eruptions and attendant upheaval. The picture hints an Adam and Eve type of new beginning for them, now left to their own devices to make the best of an unplanned and unimagined future together.

Claudio Carvalho In 1916, during the World War II, a British passenger ship is torpedoed by the German U-boat commanded by Captain Von Schoenvorts (John McEnery) and sinks. The survivors Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure) and Lisa Clayton (Susan Penhaligon) join a few crew members that has also survived and Bowen convinces them to take over the submarine that has come to the surface. They sail together but they end lost in the middle of the ocean. After many incidents between Germans and British, the two groups team-up to survive and arrive in Caprona, a land that is not charted in the maps. Soon they realize that the land has dinosaurs, pterodactyls and Neanderthals. They capture a native, Ahm (Bobby Parr), and they learn that there is oil on the land. They see the chance to refine it and leave Caprona. Will they succeed in their intent? "The Land That Time Forgot" is an unforgettable adventure based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel with the same title. The plot is delightfully naive and is funny to see how we could buy a story of a land forgotten by time forty years ago. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Terra Que o Tempo Esqueceu" ("The Land That Time Forgot")

bowmanblue I used to watch this with my friends when it was on TV in the eighties. I'd seen a fair few war films and, back then, the prospect of Germans and Allied forces teaming up seemed pretty freaky and intriguing to me.The Land That Time Forgot follows the exploits of a German U-boat crew who get overpowered by a lifeboat full of civilians who they actually just sank (no, seriously they do… just go with it – it's worth it). Anyway, the U-boat gets lost and ends up in a secret land of dinosaurs and cavemen. There, they must work together to escape.I'd forgotten how much of the film actually takes place before they arrive on the island. Maybe I only watched the second half with the dinosaurs? But it doesn't matter. It sets the scene perfectly – displaying the tensions between the two crews.Then they get to the island and generally ravaged by dinosaurs. Only they're not really dinosaurs, they're large rubbery monsters. Hey, it was pre-CGI and Jurassic Park – what do you expect? But, again, don't let that put you off. If you can get past the dodgy special effects and just immerse yourself in the story, you'll find that it's actually quite a tight and tense little number.What with all the films of the seventies being remade and Hollywood working its way through the latter end of the eighties and even into the nineties, I'm surprised this one never got the remake treatment. It's probably ripe for one, but, once again, that's not a detraction from the original. If you have a couple of hours to kill and can forgive a little bit of ham, just go with it. There's worse about, even with realistic dinosaurs!http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/