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The Lost World [2001] starring: Bob Hoskins, James Fox, Tom Ward (II), Matthew Rhys, Elaine Cassidy directed by: Stuart Orme List Price: £19.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £14.98 You Save: £5.01 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5014503108625 Format: PAL, Widescreen Label: 2 Entertain Video Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 2 Entertain Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: June 03, 2002 Running Time: 150 minutes Studio: 2 Entertain Video Theatrical Release Date: October 06, 2002 Sales Rank: 18206 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Not the Steven Spielberg blockbuster, this Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation 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 moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus 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 Boys' Own adventuring with subtle eco-awareness, complex character interplay and the reliable wonder of soaring Pteranodons and Carnosaur attacks. --Kim Newman Video Description: DVD Special Features: Dolby Digital 5.1 Sound Anamorphic Commentary by the Producer, Christopher Hall, and the Director, Stuart Orme Inside The Lost World (30-minute making of documentary) Subtitles: English SDH, Dutch, Greek Regions 2, 4 Synopsis: This BBC presentation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD follows an early 20th-century expedition to discover the existence of dinosaurs. Led by Professor George Challenger (Bob Hoskins), the party encounters primitive humans and various dinosaurs. The cast also includes James Fox, Peter Falk, Elaine Cassidy, Matthew Rhys, and Tim Healy. From the Back Cover: Bob Hoskins leads and all-star cast in this action-packed TV movie adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic adventure story. At the turn of the century, an expedition under the leadership of maverick academic, Professor Challenger, leaves smog-choked London for the rainforests of South America in search of a mythical land--where it is said that time has stood still ... and where dinosaurs still roam. Accompanying Professor Challenger are a rival academic, Professor Summerlee, the famed and dashing hunter, Lord Roxton, and a young reporter, Edward Malone. They are joined in the Amazonian jungle by a settler, Theo, and his niece, Agnes. Together, they are about to embark on a terrifying adventure. What they will learn in their struggle to survive the lost world will leave them wiser but forever changed. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Not the definitive Lost World by any means, but not at all badThe BBC's 2002 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 are faithful enough, but once again a new female character has been written into the story for purely demographic reasons in the form of Elaine Cassidy's daughter of Peter Falk's missionary, though this does at least allow the script some contentious discussion of Creationism vs. Darwinism to help stake its claim to a higher intellectual plateau than its cheap-and-cheerful rivals. But of course, ... Read More: Rating:  - Is this the same film that I saw???I was eager to see this when it was shown on BBC, but then I was so appalled I actually had to force myself to watch the second part, just to see how much of a mess they’d made of it. As an adventure film, it’s fine: as a film based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s story of the same name, it stinks. They’ve ruined it, as far as I’m concerned: if this had been done to a person, it would probably be called attempted murder. Granted, they had to update the reason for the explorers being marooned on the plateau, since the book is a tad racist in places. But they could have done that without destroying the original storyline. And of course there has to be a female in it [this was one of my beefs with the original Michael ... Read More: Rating:  - A breathtaking adventure with an interesting subplotThis is the story of a great adventure. At the beginning of the 20th century four very different men leave London on a strange expedition: they follow the map of a long dead missionary, who thought that he had seen dragons somewhere in the middle of the Brasilian rainforest ... Professor Challenger is convinced that these dragons are dinosaurs, his dour collegue Summerlee thinks that it is a hoax, Lord Roxton likes the adventure and the reporter Edward Malone wants to impress Claire, the girl he is in love with. Somewhere in the Brasilian jungle they are joined by Alice and her uncle, a missionary - for reasons that you have to see for yourself! The expedition finds the "lost world" on a plateau deep in the rainforest. And then the real adventure ... Read More: Rating: - Christmas Highlight- And A Great DVDI would call The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle my favourite book. Although once an important book, it has now sunk to be one of Doyle's many lost books, overshadowed by Holmes That is why I was extremely excited to hear that the BBC was to put it on TV, not being old enough to have seen any of the old films. Usually TV adaptations never seem to be pulled off properly. This one did it perfectly. Probably because it did not stick rigidly to the text. The addition of Theo Kerr to leave the group stranded (rather than the slightly weak story of Gomez)among other things was a good one, and the big addition of Agnes worked well. The entire screenplay was written in Conan Doyle's style, the additional scenes with the indians and the endings of the ... Read More: Rating: - Rip-roaring entertainment at its best!I'd heartily recommend this title to anyone. This is the special feature length drama first shown on BBC at Christmas 2001. Far better than the disappointing Jurassic Park sequel with which it shares its title, instead this "Lost World" is a marvellous and intelligent reworking of Conan Doyle's classic adventure story. It has a host of exemplary performances from the cast, topped by some excellent effects and direction. The DVD picture quality is crystal clear, as is the sound, and though the extras (a 30 minute documentary) are a little thin on the ground, the film itself is well worth the price. The story zips along at a cracking pace, and is beautifully structured, with some great shock moments coming at regular intervals. The scene where ... Read More: |
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