Pluskylang Great Film overall

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

richard.fuller1 I saw this as a kid in the early to mid '70s one summer morning when our local network showed old movies during the day.I thought this thing was an absolute masterpiece, brilliant from beginning to end, with its 'Fantastic Four' cast of characters.As for the cheesy effects, that was just something I never noticed at my young age, and I enjoyed the story way too much; a helicopter just looked too out of place to me in a jungle with dinosaurs.The slow-moving dinosaur costume approaching the helicopter was just suspense-building for me as well. Marvelous! When I would finally have to track this thing down on VHS and watch it then, I was astonished at how short it was! The missing scientist was kind of unneeded to me. He was just trying too hard to perform, I guess.But it all worked out.Definitely a Saturday matinée flick for kids, if you ask me, but don't know if today's kids would get into it that much.But I have always liked it, so much so I even had to track it down in comic book form, but from England!

ccthemovieman-1 This is a decent sci-fi flick from the Fifties ('57). It's entirely watchable, in that it had enough varied action to keep one's interest and didn't overdo any sappy romance angle, although there was one there. This is no Jurassic Park when it comes to showing dinosaurs but, hey, the film was made over 55 years ago and special-effects were primitive back then. They're still not bad....in fact, good for that period. That, and this was most likely a low-budget film. It also may be a no-name cast for many readers here although those who grew up in the '50s might remember Jock Mahoney from the western"Yancy Derringer."Still, the acting was fine, the story acceptable and, as mentioned, it moved well with a couple of surprising twists. I liked the fog-shrouded lost-world atmosphere and I was glad to see this in a widescreen DVD format with a good transfer.If you're a fan of this genre, or hokey '50s sci-fi films, this is a movie to check out.

ebiros2 I guess this is one of the classics because scenes from this movie often appears at other places especially the really cheezy looking T Rex.The plot is somewhat based on the alleged story admiral Byrd told of after his Operation High Jump, that he saw vegetation growing, and seen a wooly mammoth beyond the pole. Few men and a woman decides to travel the same route, and finds a land that time's forgotten.I'm sorry to say, but that's about all that's going for this movie. Far from the quality of Willis O'Brien's King Kong, this movie has no quality to it at all. The actors are crappy, chic is ugly, and story is dismal.Don't waste your time on this fail of the century. You can find better things to do.

MARIO GAUCI This was included in Universal's second "Sci-Fi Collection" set and though it treads familiar territory ("The Lost World") still manages to engage the viewer throughout. Tellingly, the film is redolent of the probing attitude (i.e. heavier on science than thrills) which typified the genre at this time – resulting in a lengthy documentary-style exposition and rather missing out on the sense of wonder and adventure inherent in its theme (exemplified by such later outings as, say, THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT [1975])! What is interesting here is the fact that the Prehistoric tropical world our heroes crash in (incidentally, no attempt is made to rescue them from their plight!) is situated deep in the bowels of Antarctica! Anyway, for director Vogel, this was certainly an improvement on his previous brush with the genre (THE MOLE PEOPLE [1956])…but his efforts are nonetheless undermined, in the long run, by a second-rate cast (all playing stock characters – including one intrepid female reporter and the crazed survivor of a prior expedition), not to mention the less-than-special effects – obvious magnified lizards, a T-Rex that is no more than a man-in-a-monster suit (its mouth hanging open at an exaggerated angle!) and the even-more-laughable sea serpent. For the record, this was one of 12 horror/sci-fi titles (all released by Universal) to be produced by William Alland – otherwise best-known as the interviewer of CITIZEN KANE (1941)!