The Lost World (1992 Film Review)

1992 Canadian Television
Directed by: Timothy Bond; Written by: Marion Fairfax, Harry Alan Towers, and Tim Kirk
Starring: John Rhys-Davies, Eric McCormack, David Warner, and Nathania Stanford
MPAA Rating: N/A; Running Time: 99 Minutes
The Nicsperiment Score: 3/10

Edward Malone is looking for a big story. His superiors pawn him off on Professor George Challenger, thinking Challenger is a joke who'll make the young reporter, Malone, look silly. Instead, Malone finds one of the biggest stories of all: Professor Challenger has discovered a lost world deep in the wilds of Africa, where dinosaurs never became extinct.
1992's Canadian television production of The Lost World takes many liberties with its Arthur Conan Doyle source material, which wouldn't matter as much, if the film was good. John Rhys-Davies hams it up as the passionate Professor Challenger, but no amount of scenery-chewing can make up for the bad rubber dinosaurs, goofy plotting, cheap overall production values, and overall silliness of this film. Unless you're working on a checklist to see every film about dinosaurs ever made, or I guess if you have a strange affinity for cheap, goofy, made-for-TV 90s movies, stay away from this one.