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Determined to prove the existence of The Lost World, dashing
adventurer and scholar Professor Edward Challenger mounts
a British expedition team consisting of a mismatched group
of enthusiasts, all with less than selfless reasons for making
the journey. The action takes place in a land where time stands
still but terrifying prehistoric creatures, vicious ape-men
and bloodsucking flora won't...
The
Lost World (sometimes referred
to as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World) TV series
was a Canadian/Australian/New Zealand co-production based
loosely on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's popular 1912 novel of
the same name. The
show was produced by John Landis,
ran for three seasons (1999 - 2002) and was cancelled when
the producers were unable to procure funding for the fourth
season.
To
be perfectly honest though, I'm surprised it made it past
the pilot stage. The effects are second rate at best, most
of the scripts are a little weak, and the acting ranges from
poor (Rachel
Blakely, playing Marguerite Krux, and Michael
Sinelnikoff, as Professor Arthur Summerlee) to just believable
(Jennifer O'Dell, as Veronica, and Will Snow, playing Lord
John Roxton).
I
was going to give a run through of the episodes that I particularly
enjoyed, but to be frank none of them are worthy of note.
Each week the main cast split into two groups, each doing
a different task - be that trekking through the jungle or
staying near/in the tree house What you can be certain of
is that O'Dell has plenty of cleavage on display (which, believe
it or not, gets a little tiresome after a while), one of our
heroes will be faced with certain death only to have one of
the other regulars appear out of nowhere and shoot the threat,
and a velociraptor will leap from a bush only to be instantly
shot.
The
only guest stars worthy of note are Kristian Schmid (Neighbours,
The Tomorrow People) and Alan Dale (Neighbours,
Ugly Betty). Dale puts in probably the best performance
in the first season.
There's
a little too much reusing of material here too. The producers
might have gotten away with reusing the pool that was seen
in the first episode (More Than Human) that is until
it's reused and coloured yellow to look like nectar in the
following episode Nectar. The
dinosaur effects are not that impressive, but are reused so
many times as to be distracting. This is made all the more
annoying when the same few velociraptors clip are used over
and over again.
For
some unfathomable reason the two-part pilot episodes are stuck
on disc six. This means, that if you stick in disc one the
action starts in the middle of the Lost World with no explanation
as to what on earth is going on. Wouldn't it have been better
to have the pilot episodes as the first two episodes on disc
one?
Extras
sound a lot more impressive than they actually are. We get
a load of text based featurettes that provide a shallow amount
of information (Men/Women/Animals/Creatures
of The Lost World; Actor Biographies; Arthur
Conan Doyle; and Dinosaur Park); Scenery of
the Lost World (a number of video clips that show different
locations); The Lost World Convention Footage (27 minutes
of film that sits in on a Q&A and signing for a very low
key convention); Blooper Reel From Season 3 (12 mins
of outtakes from Season 3).
While
this wasn't really my cup of tea, the young will probably
love this as the storylines are not overly challenging; and
male adolescents will no doubt love the fact that there is
plenty of female cleavage on display in every episode.
Nick
Smithson
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