The Land That Time Forgot (2009)* 1/2 (out of 4) The Asylum adapts the famous Edgar Rice Burroughs novel about a group of people who get stranded on an island and soon realize that they're not alone. As with the Burroughs story, there are dinosaurs on this island but an added touch are some Nazis who don't realize that WWII is over. If you've never seen the 1975 version of this then it's best that you start there and leave this one here alone. This film doesn't have too much in common with the previous film or even the Burroughs novel for that matter but instead it's just a cheap excuse for The Asylum to make some cash. While this version is without question a bad movie I'd stop from calling it a horrible one. C. Thomas Howell acts in the film but he also directed it and considering the budget he had to work with I think he did a fine job. I thought the film flowed a lot better than you'd expect and it certainly looks more professional than a lot of the stuff that the studio puts out. Timothy Bottoms also offers up a good performance and the rest of the cast are good enough. With that said, everything else is pretty much a waste but I do think a bigger budget could have helped things. It turns out that the various survivors got on the island after going through the Bermuda Triangle and this includes some U.S. and German soldiers from WWII. I found this here to be an interesting touch and it's really too bad more wasn't done with it. The CGI dinosaurs look incredibly bad and I think it's safe to say that the effects in the 1975 version are much better (even when they weren't that great to begin with). Fans of the novel or the previous film should probably just stay clear of this because there's really not much of a connection.

One of the worst movies I have ever seen. How do you have a gun fight with 2 groups of people literally 10 feet apart and no one gets shot and then just get up and run past your enemies and everyone stops fighting? It made no sense at all, the acting sucked, the characters sucked, the plot sucked, the story sucked, and everything C. Thomas. Howell does has always sucked, bad.People keep saying it's not that bad and/or a good cheesy movie... no definition of *good* can be added to this movie in any way unless you are being sarcastic or outright lying. It's not even worthy of the title of *B* movie.

What has happened to C. Thomas Howell that he appears in dreck like this, a remake or a low-budget 1975 British flick? He even directed this thing! A group of castaways on an island in the Bernmuda Triangle must contend with a constantly hungry and angry T-Rex and a bunch of lost Germans and their broken U-boat. The T-Rex is a typical SyFy Channel creation, which means it is very bad CGI. The acting, with the exception of Tim Bottoms as a crusty captain, is second-rate. As bad as the 1975 version is, and it is truly awful, this makes that one look downright Shakespearean. "Land" author ER Burroughs must be spinning in his grave whenever this plays. His last name is even misspelled on the poster/video cover!

Yet another C. Thomas Howell directed stinker 'courtesy' of The Asylum, this remake of the 1975 film of the same name, has a group of unlikeable clowns going back in time due to some Bermuda Triangle hijinks and being trapped on an island inhabited by atrociously CGI-ed dinosaurs.Insane bad acting and a meandering plot make this film a chore to sit through (par for the course when talking of Asylum releases actually). Furthermore this movie somehow makes the first one mediocre somehow look Oscar-caliber and Doug McClure look like a seasoned Shakespearian thespian. I have no words to convey the sheer amount of ineptitude on display. Needless to say, this is a film to skip.My Grade: FWhere I saw it: Instant Netflix via X-box 360)