Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

ramairthree Once upon a time, Saturday mornings meant something.Starting in the mid to late 60s, programming started to pick up in focus and quality for kids all concentrated on Saturday morning.By about 1970 they had it down and in my opinion had a great ten year run. So many shows did so well with merchandising by 1980 or so the cartoons were no longer created for kids, but the merchandise/toys cart was put ahead of the actual cartoon horse. Ten more years of mucking with cartoons "for the good of the children" went even further down the hole. Then, there was just so much other entertainment all the time the "holiness" of the Saturday morning cartoons is long gone.Ah, but if you were a pre-school/grade school kid from about 1970 to 1980, it was magic. No recording, no streaming, no internet, no video games. You had a few special hours just for you on the TV every Saturday morning. You saw it then, or got lucky with a repeat, or never saw it again.I have a few memories of Scooby Doo, SuperFriends, Valley of the Dinosaurs, SpeedBuggy, etc. from that era. There were even Star Trek and Planet of the Apes cartoons to mirror live action shows. And one special niche on Saturday morning was what I call "live action cartoons." ISIS, Shazamm!, and, Land of the Lost.I was five years old and just started first grade when I woke up Saturday morning. I climbed on the counter, got down a bowl of Cheerios, went to the table, got into the parent's coffee sugar bowl, dumped half a dozen heaping spoons of sugar on there, poured on the milk, and headed for the TV.Thirteen inches of black and white with NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS on VHF and two more channels on UHF. And I was rewarded with a show with dinosaurs and the kids got their own knives! Too cool. Not even counting the monkey cave man friend, power crystals, and lizard/insect scary people that hissed and had the coolest sling-shot crossbow things ever. I loved this show. Heck, there was a blond named Holly in my class that thanks to this show I still have a crush on to this day in addition to the actual Holly from the show. Now, for the record, unless you have child hood memories of this show, you are not going to like it. Groovy crystals, a typical 70s twenty something year old actor playing a teenager and rocking the wide open shirt, corny dialog, kumbaya themes delivered by a so much more enlightened and hipper than anyone generation a decade before they red lined the greed and consumption meter, etc.But where else in the world in the middle of the 70s was a kid going to get to watch an Allosaurus throw down face to face with a T. Rex?IF you experienced this show as part of your childhood, and IF you have a few grade school aged kids left, buy the set and enjoy.Some of the episodes have some pretty cool concepts by good writers, it's very nostalgic, and it is just plain fun.

Sonnyboy I caught a marathon of this show on SciFi a few months back.I'm pretty sure I caught the gist of the show.First--The Acting.Awful. I remember Marshall being a particularly bad actor. They couldn't say a line without looking like idiots. I remember the episode where Will gets zapped by a yellow crystal. That was some of the worst television acting I've ever seen.Also, those little monkey people are very bad actors as well. What were they?... Pylons?...Second--The Scripts.Bad again. Almost so bad it's good, but it's... not. Every episode ended in a cheesy unfunny joke. And the dialog was always choppy, poorly said, and corny.Third--The Special Effects.Ha... the shows one redeeming quality...These are indeed so bad they're good. From puppets to claymation reused from every episode, these are indeed the worst special effects I've ever seen.You should also expect a lot of still-image backgrounds, bad picture control, and picture-in-picture graphics.Fourth--The StoriesI'll be honest. Most of the stories are not bad. Although... I remember once... A caveman miner is lost in the land, and when the gang walks in his cave, he holds a match over his cannon and says "Freeze!" or something like that... lol!!!And, of course, the stories eventually got tired...Fifth--The CharactersMarshall, Will, and Holly were immaterial. Their characters were stale, bland, predictable. Will was a intellectual, the children were typical brother and sister, and the monkey people were annoying.Overview--The show is not good.Still... with it's bad acting, cheesy characters, low budget special effects, and lazy stories, it has an undeniable charm... And that is why I will watch it the next time there is a marathon on SciFi. That is why I will watch it. It is worth watching, with all the awfulness included, if only for the camp value. Watch it. Appreciate the bad music. The special effects. Watch it, and remember...

Daniel Saks I started reading the comments in the hopes that someone would shed some light on the question: Which came first Sid and Marty Kroft's "Land Of The Lost" or Hanna Barberra's "Valley Of The Dinosaurs"? They are very similar. Modern family dealing with dinosaurs and cave men, Two kids a boy and a girl, somewhat preachy parents, everything working out in the end. They were both in 1974. You might say "well "Valley Of The Dinosaurs" must have come first because it was animated" but the fact is it was REALLY REALLY CRAPPY limited animation and "Land Of The Lost" had stop motion animation. So which one came first? and was one a copy of the other?

d-deschene I actually read that they fell through a time trap(door) What?? They were on a camping trip and they went over a waterfall and ended up in the land of the lost. OK now that I got that off of my chest why was Holly so annoying? She was always complaining. Dad why is a boulder coming after us? Dad why is that dinosaur going to eat us? It never was out of fear but rather the sound of an annoying child. Also about those boulders...come on. They were the size of a peanut. I guess that is why they would shrink the actors to make the rocks appear much larger. I just bought the show on DVD. I hope it is worthwhile. I guess just seeing Holly's face in braids on the cover is worth the price.