What this needed was to play more to its strengths and that meant craning up the skate culture influence it tried to tap. It’s still a kids movie and the plot is rather barebones as is the action, but I have to say that I liked the set up and this movie had a lot more potential with it, they just didn’t have the budget to make a good enough story.
I’m surprised there aren’t better screenshots and promotional artwork of this movie since I the current one is rather generic and doesn’t sell the movie at all not to mention it doesn’t tell you anything of what to expect. Very much look like they were designed in the early 00’s but that’s not a negative thing. We see plenty of dinosaurs but not all of them have the best character designs, as far as the actual characters, Alex Chang, Leo Bryant, Jackie Rodriguez and Margaret Tim, all have decent designs. Weird since they saw plenty of dinosaurs in between all of it and they just brushed it off. After a while they realize this island is too suspicious and not part of the game and decide to work together to get out. Since they don’t want to be eliminated they don’t want to cooperate at first and their different personalities doesn’t let it happen either. Their plane crashes on an island but the 4 teens think that it’s all part of the show and that surely there will be cameras. We have a story that is totally set in the early 2000’s since you have some extreme sports enthusiasts who are going to participate in a “survivor” like reality show and all four contestants want to participate. This movie is indeed just a modern re-telling of The Lost World and for the most part done right, I won’t say it’s the greatest interpretation but it definitely had some good ideas here and there The first animated film we’ll take a look at is Dinosaur Island 2002 which as mentioned is unrelated to the other two Dinosaur Island films which are also weird on their own so you should check out our look back on those as well.