Return to the Lost World

RETURN TO THE LOST WORLD features the return of the entire cast from the first film. Yes! This includes Nathania Stanford as Malu -My goodness! How can anyone be this beautiful?! She's hot enough to walk on the sun without even burning her feet!

Anyway, picking up where part one left off, a familiar villain is back, joined by a noxious pig who wants to drill in the dino mesa for oil. This leads to disaster and tragedy. Can Challenger and company save the day?

Unlike in the first film, the dinosaurs only pop in occasionally to remind us that they exist. RETURN is also a bit less family-friendly than its predecessor. The addition of more eeevil characters brings more violence into the story. There's even some brief -Malu!- partial nudity! It also has a heavier moral / ecological message to it.

An enjoyable enough follow-up...

Return to the Lost World was not as good as The Lost World. It starts off with the promise of being better than the previous film but it just doesn't measure up. But that doesn't mean it is not enjoyable. John Rhys-Davies and David Warner play their roles very well and the lead villain does over act, in a bad way. If you've seen the previous movie, I suggest watching this. It's filled with fun and adventure.

Return To the Lost World was filmed back-to-back with the 1992 version of The Lost World.

In this sequel, the same five people, lead by Challenger return to the plateau where a group has started drilling for oil which is threatening to destroy the land. Gomez has something to do with this. They manage to defeat the drillers and the plateau is saved, much to the delight of the natives.

Like in The Lost World, what few dinosaurs we see are made of rubber and these include a T-Rex and Ankylosaurus.

John Ryhs-Davies and David Warner reprise their roles as Challenger and Summerlee and three of the other actors are also back.

Despite reading several bad reviews of this and those cheap looking rubber dinosaurs, I enjoyed Return to the Lost World.

Rating: 3 stars out of 5.

Once again the two bickering professors must join together to save the lost world. The five members of the first expedition return (see The Lost World, 1992, for a list of actors). A man seeking oil brings a drilling crew to the plateau. Instead of striking oil they tap an underground volcano which threatens all life in the Lost World. The oil crew clash with the native people and the scientific expedition. Although the situation looks hopeless.... (I'm not going to tell you the ending).

This sequel to "The Lost World" has Summerlee and Challenger returning to the Lost World to thwart some rascally oil prospectors. Rather more spectacular than the first film (it includes a brief nude shot of the delectable Nathania Stanford) it has the same rather likeable qualities.

It plays like a Victorian adventure story, brave, honest Englishmen against cowardly, devious continental Europeans (In this case Belgian and Portuguese). The lead villain over acts badly but Rhys-Davies and Walker are good in the lead roles.

There is rather more action and plot than the first film and generally it holds the interest.