Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Excellent but underrated film

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I wrote this at age 19, and I am 20 now that I am re-posting it. Here is my review of it: This film was quite interesting. I was impressed with the use of footage of humans and the stop-motion dinosaurs. However, there are many things that I need to mention. In elementary school, I was en expert in modern biology and prehistoric life. I, like everyone else, also understand basic geography. In the note of basic geography and modern biology, I noticed that the film is set in South America, yet African chimpanzees make several appearances. I also should mention that the main characters are British, but the characters occasionally use Southern American grammar. Now, the subject of prehistoric creatures, which dominate this film. The antagonist of the film is not the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as most dinosaur films they usually are. Neither is the Allosaurus, which appears the most throughout this film. Instead, a "long-neck" is the greatest villain. This Brontosaurus, (now known as an Apatosaurus) is wounded in a fight with an Allosaurus, and almost dies. Still alive, the heroes take it to London, but this "leaf eater" viciously attacks the town and swims away. The T-Rex is shown being able to use it's arms to catch prey. However, this isn't possible because it's arm's only have 2 fingers and are the size of an average man's arm. The T-Rex and Allosaurids are shown standing vertically, when they really would have stood horizontally. Knowing all of this by age 9, I found this film to be utterly hilarious being 10 years older (now). Without this film, there would have never been the beautiful 2005 version of King Kong. The Bronto/Apatosaurus is comparable to the great ape and his captivity in New York. I still enjoyed this historic piece of film. Possibly due to all of these excessive inaccuracies. The 1925 version of "The Lost World" is a film that should never go missing from our classic monster film library.

Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a diary given to him by fellow explorer Maple White's daughter, Paula. Malone's paper funds an expedition to rescue Maple White, who has been marooned at the top of a high plateau. Joined by renowned hunter John Roxton, and others, the group goes to South America, where they do indeed find a plateau inhabited by pre-historic creatures, one of which they even manage to bring back to London with them.I like that they go to SA instead of Africa.The story is boring.and there's actually a guy in a bad monkey suit, but the movie is all about the stop motion dinosaurs. Still cool to watch them nearly 100 years later! And bronty in central London is spectacular! Also notable for one of only 5 films Arthur Conan Doyle appears in.

If 'King Kong' is seen as the Daddy of all monster films, then the earlier - 1925 - Willis H O'Brian creation 'The Lost World' must surely be seen as the Grandaddy of them all. Although not the first time that stop-motion photography had been used in cinema history (I think that award goes to a long forgotten, and rarely seen, series of animations about Gertie the Dinosaur), this was certainly the first time that such a technique featured in a major feature film. This film is now doing the rounds of the West of England with a new score composed by JJ Garden of The Scissor Sisters, and I caught a showing of it at my local cinema, The Curzon in Clevedon, tonight.The film has undoubtedly dated, and has a plot line through which a full sized T-Rex could be driven (although this has more to do with the fact that the film has been so chopped and messed about with over the years that it, I would imagine, bares little resemblance to the original released version all those years back). There are character that seem to appear from nowhere - including what appears to be a blacked-up native in the Brazilian section (not the apeman, although he/it seems an odd addition to the film!), and some of the acting - most notably Bessie Love - definitely belongs to another era. Having said all that the effects still impress at times, and the influence this film had on all subsequent monster films, from the aforementioned King Kong through the monster films of the 1950s right up and beyond Jurassic Park etc can be seen in every jagged movement the dinosaurs make! At one point a dinosaur sticks his tongue out and my thoughts immediately went to the Alien series of films - I would doubt that any film before or since has such a lasting influence on the history of cinema.One point on the music. JJ Garden has composed a score consisting of electronic keyboard effects etc, which sounds amazing inside the auditorium, and occasionally illuminates the film to a degree, but personally I found it rather grating after a while and I wished for a little more variety and humour. Still, a small price to pay to be able to see such an important piece of cinema history in the way it was meant to be seen, on a big screen with a large crowd etc!

Long before Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park: The Lost World" astonished audiences by releasing dinosaurs to rampage around Southern California, co-directors Harry O. Hoyt and William Dowling had beaten them to the punch with their 1925, black and white silent movie dinosaur saga "The Lost World" where a brontosaurus creates havoc in metropolitan London. In truth, the silent film "The Lost World" qualifies as the first live-action dinosaur epic. The ingenious filmmakers blended shots of actual flesh-and-blood actors with scenes of model dinosaurs tromping through the jungle by means of the static matte and the traveling matte so that both appear to be interacting at the same time. The first special effects guru, Willis O'Brien, paved the way for future classics with his pioneering efforts in stop-motion animation with which he achieved greater and more enduring success in 1933 with "King Kong." Although time has not been kind to it, "The Lost World" still ranks as the best adaptation of author A. Conan Doyle's science fiction novella. Incidentally, this is the same Doyle who wrote the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Until David Shepard of Film Preservation Associates restored "The Lost World," this landmark opus has been shown in prints that eliminated about a third of its actual length. The egregious public domain versions average about an hour, while the Image DVD restoration boasts 93 minutes. Experts have estimated that the original running time of the film was about ten minutes longer that this restored version. Again, the claim to fame here is that "The Lost World" not only beat the "Jurassic Park" sequel to the punch, but it also predated the seminal Japanese monster flick "Godzilla" as well as "King Kong." Everybody who has produced a fictional dinosaur film owes a debt of gratitude to Hoyt and Dowling as well as O'Brien and his behind-the-scenes collaborator, Mexican sculptor Marcel Delgado, who carved the miniature dinosaurs for him. Ironically, during the production of "The Lost World," the suits at First National Studios didn't believe that O'Brien's ground-breaking technical innovations would fare as well as they did. Mind you, this wasn't the first time that O'Brien played around with miniature dinosaurs. O'Brien engineered the effects for the 1918 film "The Ghost of Slumber Mountain," that some would argue was the original "feature-length" dinosaur movie. Reportedly, not only did Doyle see a print of "The Lost World" but he also liked it! According to the archivists at Turner Classic Movies, "The Lost World" was "the first in-flight movie, shown on an Imperial Airways flight in a converted Handley-Page bomber from London, UK, to Paris, France, in April 1925."