***1/2 The Lost World #2: Overgrown Lizards

Heh, heh, heh, lizards with fins taped on their backs! Ha ha, it's a big lizard! Oh, look, it's a monitor lizard, I mean "brontosaurus". Look, an iguana and a caiman! No wait, the dinosaurs too. Hey, there is even a big green spider! Heh, heh, heh. This movies fun!

Yeah, well, anywho, a group of people has formed an expedition to a plateau where "dinosaurs" are meant to be. They go there, and see a bunch of "superimposed reptiles with fins taped on their backs, rubber frills, and horns glued to their heads"! Oops, I mean "dinosaurs". They run around, find a native girl, capture her, she runs off, insert spider here, they go to a cave, find a bunch of supposedly cannibalistic natives, escape them with the help of the native girl and a long stranded explorer guy, go through the "cave of fire", find a bunch of diamonds and dinosaur eggs, get attacked by a water "dinosaur", start a river of lava, there guides get killed, as usual, and then they escape before the plateau goes boom! Whew, long plot, at least that part is good.

Ha ha ha! This movie is hilarious! They used lizards and a caiman with makeup on that were made to look big! Silly, silly, silly. I think we established that, on to the plot! It's good. The movie is based on a book made back in 1912. A movie was made in 1925 that was based on it. This is a remake. Although the stop-motion effects in the first were in no way comparable to this clunker, the plot is. The first was a silent movie, and this wasn't, so plot development could be done better. So the plot is a bit better, and you don't have to read anything! However, it still is campy and stereotypical. The Brazilian guides get killed, the scientist guy is eccentric, and the girl starts by saying she is as tough as a man is, but once she's there, she screams her head off constantly. But the good thing about stereotypes is that the characters are recognizable. And it adds to the hilarity!

As for the special effects, what special effects!? As stated above, it's a bunch of silly lizards running around. It has a great fight between a monitor and a caiman, but nowadays, animal rights activists will be yelling like nuts at them! The rest is just the basic superimposing, which was done quite well in comparison. The movie shows a lot of exotic scenes that look quite exiting. The best scenes, however, go to the aerial pictures of Brazil. But all this adds to a certain charm. It looks good, flows well, and is knock your socks off hilarious! And the best part is that it was unintentional! Still, you got to ask yourself something, why would something marketed as "big budget", who hired a lot of big name starts (acting was obviously good, by the way), go and make such pathetic special effects? I don't know why, I just laugh at it! Hah hah hah!

Great plot

Good special effect (other than the "dinosaurs" and that spider)

Nice scenery

Nice fight if somewhat cruel

Hah hah hah, heh heh heh, waaa ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaa!!! I can't stop laughing!

Lame

Campy

Stereotypical

Forget the natives, we want to see "dinosaurs"!

That is definitely not a Tyrannosaurus Rex!! It’s a gecko!!! (Not to be confused with Geico)

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