One day, via a lightning storm, a boy on an airplane is transported to a magical island with the following features:
Planes that repeatedly crash on it, with no passengers inside.
A tribe of kids living in the wild.
Carnivorous plants with eyes.
The ability to entrap people from multiple time periods.
Crystals with magical properties.
Dinosaurs!
That last one, the most prominent feature of the island, gives it its title. And the dinosaurs do indeed have a lot of effort put into them. Using the most recent scientific knowledge, the dinosaurs in this movie sport feathers and have bird-like features - bird noises, and mildly bird-like behavior. Sorry to ruin the badass image of dinosaurs, kids!
Although the dinosaurs are prominent, this is really a supernatural mystery/adventure with all the above-mentioned randomness. Heck, our protagonists are a 13-year-old boy from modern-day Australia and a very educated, upper-class 15-year-old girl from the 1950s. Also, both are really smart, because they kinda have to be in order to stand a chance in hell of surviving this mess.
The girl's been there long before the boy arrived, and she's quite the survivalist, raiding downed airplanes for clothing and food, and has built herself a nice little tree house. How has she survived that long? We'll just have to roll with it.
Apparently we'll also have to roll with a magic crystal that is they key to escaping the island and returning home. And the tribe of kids that know the island better than our protags do, laughing at them when they nearly get eaten by a massive carnivorous plant. And... hell, it's full of random plot elements, and a lot of Fridge Logic and What Happened to the Mouse? moments. Just the same, I found it a lot of fun. It had a nice sense of adventure all throughout, and very few elements of cheap humor. It even took itself seriously to the point of apparently expecting you to cry over the death of a (pet) dinosaur.
I do take issue with some of the pacing. There's a LOT of dialog early in the movie between the boy and girl, when I really would rather that dialog be split up between multiple scenes of exploration. However, the movie gets the boy on the island at the 11-minute mark, so I give it much credit for getting to the main point quickly.
Film Lost for kids
One day, via a lightning storm, a boy on an airplane is transported to a magical island with the following features:
That last one, the most prominent feature of the island, gives it its title. And the dinosaurs do indeed have a lot of effort put into them. Using the most recent scientific knowledge, the dinosaurs in this movie sport feathers and have bird-like features - bird noises, and mildly bird-like behavior. Sorry to ruin the badass image of dinosaurs, kids!
Although the dinosaurs are prominent, this is really a supernatural mystery/adventure with all the above-mentioned randomness. Heck, our protagonists are a 13-year-old boy from modern-day Australia and a very educated, upper-class 15-year-old girl from the 1950s. Also, both are really smart, because they kinda have to be in order to stand a chance in hell of surviving this mess.
The girl's been there long before the boy arrived, and she's quite the survivalist, raiding downed airplanes for clothing and food, and has built herself a nice little tree house. How has she survived that long? We'll just have to roll with it.
Apparently we'll also have to roll with a magic crystal that is they key to escaping the island and returning home. And the tribe of kids that know the island better than our protags do, laughing at them when they nearly get eaten by a massive carnivorous plant. And... hell, it's full of random plot elements, and a lot of Fridge Logic and What Happened to the Mouse? moments. Just the same, I found it a lot of fun. It had a nice sense of adventure all throughout, and very few elements of cheap humor. It even took itself seriously to the point of apparently expecting you to cry over the death of a (pet) dinosaur.
I do take issue with some of the pacing. There's a LOT of dialog early in the movie between the boy and girl, when I really would rather that dialog be split up between multiple scenes of exploration. However, the movie gets the boy on the island at the 11-minute mark, so I give it much credit for getting to the main point quickly.