It is indeed a shame that the excellent and pioneering Willis O'Brien film of the Conan Doyle masterpiece is not being granted the decent big-budget re-make it so rightly deserves. Instead we have, in recent years, been lumbered with a lot of tacky, vacuous, half-hearted re-makes. This TV series has nothing to do with the Conan Doyle story "The Lost World". The name is merely used as a blanket title to attract viewers to what is a completely unremarkable series, little more than an excuse to show uninteresting and woefully cliched 'butt-kicking babes' saving pathetic, inadequate men from computer game sprites. The storylines are slow and tedious, Challenger is feeble, nothing like the fiery character he was in the novel or the 1925 film, the natives are just laughable, and the dinosaur sequences are leaden and unexciting. The Lost World? Conan Doyle would be ashamed to have his name associated with such bottom-of-the-barrel tosh as this, and O'Brien would wonder what special effects have come to.
Review of The Lost World
