Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Michael_Elliott The People That Time Forgot (1977) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Sequel to THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT finds a group of people going to the mysterious island after the letter written by Tyler (the survivor of the first film) is located. The group finally make their way to the island where they encounter all sorts of prehistoric creatures and cavemen while at the same time trying to locate Tyler. Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel is turned into a fairly entertaining movie but I think PEOPLE falls well short of LAND for a couple of reasons. I think the biggest reason is that the characters here aren't nearly as interesting as the ones in the original film. It seems like these characters are just the typical cardboard characters that you'd expect to see in a movie like this and there was very little attempt to make them more interesting. I think it's also fair to say that this sequel just seems like the first film made over without as much energy or ion. With that said, if you did enjoy the first movie then it's pretty safe to say that you'll at least be entertained by this one. As with the first one we're given some pretty good action scenes and as long as you don't take anything too serious you should at least be able to smile. The special effects of the creatures are somewhat better here but there's still no question that the dinosaurs are a long ways from what we'd eventually see in something like JURASSIC PARK. The performances aren't that bad with Patrick Wayne leading the way with Sarah Douglas and Shane Rimmer offering nice . Doug McClure makes a very brief cameo but Dana Gillespie clearly steals the film as a cave woman. Speaking of Gillespie, the greatest special effect in the film is her costume and how amazing it is that her breasts never come popping out. THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT is a step down from the previous movie but fans of this type of thing should still be entertained.

sddavis63 Apparently this is a sequel to the earlier "The Land That Time Forgot" - which I saw many, many years ago but have to it I don't very much of. Since this is a sequel, I guess it can be forgiven to an extent for not having much that's especially original in it. It's a typical story of a land filled with dinosaurs and "cave people" (including a stereotypical and very well endowed "cavegirl" - played by an actress named Dana Gillespie - who speaks surprisingly fluent English - having been taught by the man they're searching for - and spends most of the movie looking like she's about to burst out of her costume) as a search party heads in to find someone lost from the previous expedition. To give credit where credit is due, the sets were realistic and the dinosaur effects were pretty well done. The pterodactyl attack on the small plane near the beginning of the movie was actually quite believable - at least in the context of this movie. The cast was not particularly familiar to me. The most recognizable face (to me) was Sarah Douglas as "Charly" - a well to do photographer sent along by her family's newspaper to document the expedition. (I recognize her as Ursa - the villainess from Superman II a few years later.)There's nothing very spectacular here. It's not a bad time waster (although it seems to start rather abruptly) even though it's not an especially good movie. (4/10)

retrorocketx I am a sucker for Lost World movies. This one was made as a sequel to the Land that Time Forgot. The movie picks up with an attempted rescue attempt of Tyler, who was left stranded on the lost land of Caprona. But let's face it, The People That Time Forgot is not a good movie. It has some potential but overall the movie drags. And for a lost world movie, the landscape and creatures are boring.The first 15 minutes of the movie were great and I was hooked. The props and costumes evoke the period of post WWI. The miniature ship and float plane are particularly interesting models and interact well in their miniature settings. Our adventurers enter the lost world by flying the float plane over mountains after getting in as close to the south pole as possible in a steam ship. Just as in the movie "Land Unknown" (1957) the plane is damaged and forced to land by an attacking pteronodon. Our adventurers have arrived in the lost world! From this point however, the movie drops way down in quality. The landscape is bleak and uninteresting. I wondered why this boring heath and volcanic rock area was chosen over a lush jungle like the first movie. Worse, the dinosaurs are a step down in quality from "Land the Time Forgot", which is saying something. They don't have much to do besides provide a glimpse of a threat through the trees and roar ineffectually. They don't eat anyone. Only one creature, a cave monster actually gets to attack our heroes. The 'people' of this land are a let down. One group is the very silly, ever chasing and yelling at a distance cave men. They capture the adventurers, but we never get a close look at them, nor do we get a glimpse of their culture. The other 'people' of this world are the skull collecting samurai. Again, we see very little of what might make them interesting. OK, there are a few moments where the skull samurai get to pose and preen a bit while preparing to decapitate the women. But really, why bother calling the the movie 'The People That Time Forgot' if you are not going anywhere with the people? The first movie gave us so much more in of cultural groups. The expedition characters are purely stock, and no interesting chemistry or conflicts develop within the party as a result of their potentially awesome with a prehistoric world. The expedition consists of a female photographer whose father owns a newspaper and is putting up the cash for this trip, Tyler's BFF who is determined to rescue him, his trusty half-drunk comic relief sidekick, and a not-convincing scientist type. Along the way they enlist the aid of a beautiful and scantily-clad cave girl (Dana Gillespie). She carries the film with her primordial sex appeal. There are way too many padded scenes of the group strolling around the trees and hills. The fight scenes don't work because they are poorly done and they have no real drama because nothing seems to be at stake besides immediate self defense. There is no interaction among characters except for stock exchanges of uninspired dialog. Overall the actors seems confused and bored while they meander from point A to point B. But there are a few good scenes in the film, one of the best being the meeting and rescue of Tyler (Doug McClure) in a skull infested prison cell. By the end of the movie, you realize why the filmmakers chose the location they did. A nearly unlimited number of explosions are set off at the climax of the film. That sequence ended up being kind of fun. But final scene of the film...awkward and lame.

junkvj I watched this for free on Hulu.com and had to look it up here to find who did the special effects. They are similar to Ray Harryhausen's work, but he is not listed in the credits. I have to write the rest of this because they require that I fill in with 10 lines of text. Why is there such a rule? The producers do use stop action for the animation of a seaplane flying out of the arctic and if you like that type of animation then this is a good movie to watch. This movie uses a lot of exploding flares and it must have been hard on the actors "flying" through exploding clouds and simulated rocks. Yes, the acting was kinda bad, and the attacking tribe was rather weak, but what do you want for a 70's B movie??