Sorry, this movie sucks

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

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

A few years after the events of "The Land that Time Forgot", adventurer Ben McBride (John Waynes' hunky son Patrick Wayne) is launching an expedition to find and rescue his good friend Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure). Fortunately, he finds the isolated island, where cavemen still exist and dinosaurs still roam, without much trouble. He learns that he will have to battle with a rather advanced, villainous prehistoric people who are holding Bowen prisoner.Admittedly, this sequel to "Land", based on the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs, is pretty juvenile, dopey, and lightweight. There's not much in it that will really scare younger viewers. The monsters are fairly plentiful, but not that threatening. The special effects may not be terribly convincing, but this viewer will still take these sorts of effects over most CGI any day. Good visuals, reasonable excitement, and a mild sense of wonder help to keep things entertaining. Alan Hume is the cinematographer who gives us the colorful lighting, Maurice Carter the production designer who supplies the amusing sets (this was shot both on location in Spain and at Pinewood Studios), and John Scott contributes the appealing, rousing music score.Wayne is a decent hero, while Sarah Douglas (as Charly the photographer) and well endowed Dana Gillespie (as the cavegirl Ajor) supply highly appreciated eye candy. Douglas is best known for playing the villainous Ursa in "Superman" 1 and 2, so it's interesting to see her in this leading lady role, before she really hit it big. Thorley Walters is delightful, as usual, as a professor tagging along, and Canadian actor Shane Rimmer supplies some comedy relief in the role of Hogan. Among other things, Hogan talks to himself in order to deal with loneliness, and keeps a running tally of the pterodactyls that he's shot down. There's a few familiar actors in smaller roles, too: John Hallam, David "Darth Vader" Prowse, Richard LeParmentier, Milton Reid. It is nice to see McClure reprise his role of Tyler from the first film.It's not great cinema, but it's not trying to be. It's just good, simple, likable escapism.Seven out of 10.

Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back safely to their ship.....The Land That Time Forgot was a funny throwaway bit of fluff that had a funny soundtrack and great monster effects. It was a success, so it was a given that some sort of follow up would be made.This, however isn't the way to follow up a fun ninety minute adventure movie. Imagine Jurassic Park with an hour of the group on a boat, and then thirty minutes of them on foot, and then twenty minutes of dinosaurs? Sounds rubbish doesn't it.Well this is that film, twenty minutes on a boat, ten minutes on a plane with cinemas most annoying pterodactyl, and then lots of walking.The rest of the film is just Doug McClure trying to win the film from everyone else, and Ursa from Superman with Princess Leia buns.It all ends with a glowing volcano, and not much else.A pointless movie, devoid of the awkward charm the first film had.

The newspaper of the family of the photographer Charly (Sarah Douglas) sponsors an expedition to the Arctic in the ship Polar Queen to find and rescue Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure). Soon the rescue team formed by Tyler's friend Ben McBride (Patrick Wayne), Professor Norfolk (Thorley Walters) and Charly fly in an airplane with the pilot Hogan (Shane Rimmer) to a distant place while Captain Lawton (Tony Britton) waits for their return on board of the Polar Queen. However they are hit by a pterodactyl and crash in a weird land of prehistoric animals. Soon they meet the native Ajor (Dana Gillespie) that surprisingly speaks English. They learn that Tyler had taught English to her tribe that evolved from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, but he was captured by a wild tribe. While Hogan fixes the airplane, Ajor joins the group to help them to find Tyler and bring him back to the civilization in a dangerous journey."The People That Time Forgot" is a lame and absurd adventure with a silly story. It is funny to see the hot native Ajor with a fashion haircut (1977); or the tropical forest in the middle of the Arctic; or Hogan scoring the number of pterodactyls that he has killed; or Professor Norfolk throwing away Charly's camera to lighten the weight in the airplane; or the group skilled in sword fighting. My vote is four. Title (Brazil): "O Mundo Que o Tempo Esqueceu" ("The World That Time Forgot")

I remembered horrible performances, cheap sets, and a contrived storyline. It's amazing I bothered with this one again, but I'm glad I did. While this is no masterpiece, it is actually much better than I remembered. Continuing forward from the original installment, "The Land That Time Forgot," picks up the Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure) character after having been left behind by the crew of his original mission, and discovers what has happened in his life since his isolation began.While this IS horribly dated, Patrick Wayne is actually quite good. You may remember Patrick Wayne from Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. He is also John Wayne's son, who was offered the role as Superman in the original movie, but turned it down due to his father's accelerating cancer.The sets were not as bad as I thought I remembered, either, but the dialog delivery is still pretty false and unnatural.All in all? As a "B" flick, this isn't bad for a rainy day diversion. It's still not a masterpiece and is RIPE for a remake, but there is some entertainment to be derived from this work.It rates a 4.7/10 from...the Fiend :.