Very well executed

Memorable, crazy movie

Absolutely the worst movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

A ship out for a tour gets caught up into the Bermuda triangle and lands on an island with CG dinosaurs, others from the past and WWII Germans with a U-Boat. Not as good as the 60's "Mysterious Island." Characters were rather cardboard and laughable as is typical in an Asylum film.Film appears to be made for kids.No sex or nudity. Uses the word "Fricking" as a substitution for the F-bomb.

There are worse movies than this, including within the "lost world" genre it is a part of. I suppose that is the most praise I can give the 2009 film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The Land That Time Forgot".While the previous 1975 film was by no means devoid of flaws, it has a charm that hasn't gone away despite recent prehistoric CGI-enhanced epics like the "Jurassic Park" films. Only the best films of the dinosaur/ lost world movie genre make you feel like you're a kid while watching them, and the '75 film is one of them. It does not possess the kind of technical wizardry of stop-motion classics like "One Million Years B.C." (1966) or "The Lost World" (1925), but it is a very fun movie that is a fairly faithful adaptation of the book (which I have read).The 2009 movie features shoddy CGI effects which make one miss the puppets and men in suits from the earlier film. The effects here are perhaps suitable as "previsualization" FX shots, but generally don't hold up to much scrutiny: the dinosaurs have extremely limited movement capability, and their skin and mouths look extremely fake. I think the best rendered-creatures were the giant dragonfly (cleverly filmed a good distance away from it) and carnivorous Pterodactyls, while generally the T-Rex was pretty hard on my eyes.The original film and book took place on a giant lost continent called Caprona; the interior was lush and tropical. The '75 film was shot at a variety of exotic locales including the Canary Islands, plus utilized Shepperton Studios to realize Caprona on the big screen. This film settles for dry Southern California, and takes significant detours from the original book and film- including no mention I can recall of "Caprona" itself.I don't feel anyone out of the cast particularly shined or slumped, but I do wish C. Thomas Howell had been able to anchor the movie more effectively. He makes a poor successor to Doug McClure, who was far more effective as a protagonist and was too macho to spend over half the movie looking worried or freaked out.There are certainly worse films out there, but this one is really only for fans of Z-grade cinema. Watch it with extremely low expectations and try to appreciate it in a "so bad it's good" kinda way, and you might have an OK time.

I want back the time I wasted on this movie. I want back the expectation that I was watching a remake of the older classic starring Doug McClure. This movie was so horribly done, I have to wonder why anyone would even bother. Who was pretending to be a director or producer here?I don't even know where to start. Maybe the 1990s Saturday morning cartoonish dinosaurs. Maybe the horrible play-acting and over-acting. Maybe the script and dialog that at times don't even make sense. Maybe the bizarre music that didn't even fit the plot most of the time (I felt like I was listening to an opera while watching a horror movie). Maybe the fake-gravelly-whisperish voice of the boat captain. Maybe the lack of character development. Maybe the insertion of subtle sexual hints at totally inappropriate moments. Maybe the fact that it's obviously the same ridiculous Sci-Fi Channel filler trash that we've come to expect from a channel that used to be a legitimate place to watch classic and new sci-fi and has instead turned into a cartoon factory.I guess what I'm saying is, don't even bother to watch this movie. It will be the most unpleasant lost two hours of your life. Don't even bother. I hate to be a hater, but this really is the biggest waste of remaking time and expense I've ever seen. But then since the expense was obviously minimal, I guess time was only thing really lost here.

The Land That Time Forgot (2009)* 1/2 (out of 4) The Asylum adapts the famous Edgar Rice Burroughs novel about a group of people who get stranded on an island and soon realize that they're not alone. As with the Burroughs story, there are dinosaurs on this island but an added touch are some Nazis who don't realize that WWII is over. If you've never seen the 1975 version of this then it's best that you start there and leave this one here alone. This film doesn't have too much in common with the previous film or even the Burroughs novel for that matter but instead it's just a cheap excuse for The Asylum to make some cash. While this version is without question a bad movie I'd stop from calling it a horrible one. C. Thomas Howell acts in the film but he also directed it and considering the budget he had to work with I think he did a fine job. I thought the film flowed a lot better than you'd expect and it certainly looks more professional than a lot of the stuff that the studio puts out. Timothy Bottoms also offers up a good performance and the rest of the cast are good enough. With that said, everything else is pretty much a waste but I do think a bigger budget could have helped things. It turns out that the various survivors got on the island after going through the Bermuda Triangle and this includes some U.S. and German soldiers from WWII. I found this here to be an interesting touch and it's really too bad more wasn't done with it. The CGI dinosaurs look incredibly bad and I think it's safe to say that the effects in the 1975 version are much better (even when they weren't that great to begin with). Fans of the novel or the previous film should probably just stay clear of this because there's really not much of a connection.