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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0018713516367
Format: Dolby, NTSC
Label: Good Times Video
Manufacturer: Good Times Video
Publisher: Good Times Video
Release Date: August 01, 2006
Running Time: 68 minutes
Sales Rank: 41766
Studio: Good Times Video
Editorial Review:
Description:
LOST BOYS synopsis 2/28/06 When a group of boys are stranded on a deserted island after a storm destroys their boat, they know that the only way they'll survive is to stick together. But when another storm beaches another boat, the boys find they are sharing the island with some very evil criminals. Now it will take some quick thinking and some clever plotting to not only survive, but to stay alive. And will they ever be able to escape and get back home? Based on a story by Jules Verne, BOYS OF LOST ISLAND is filled with non-stop, edge-of-your-seat adventure.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Should have stayed lost ...
Sort of like a cross between "Gilligan's Island" (without the humor) and "Lost" (without the suspense) ... maybe well intended but the end results will in no way satisfy. I doubt that anyone actually sets out to make a bad movie but in this case if that was their goal they have been successful. If it's on cable and you're bored you might want to see if you can sit through the entire movie but I sure wouldn't spend good money to purchase or even rent it.
Rating:  - A minor Verne film, attempting and accomplishing little
STRANGE HOLIDAY (1969), released in 1992 by GoodTimes [sic] Home Video as BOYS OF LOST ISLAND, is actually one of the most faithful of Verne films, but that is primarily a result of the picture's modest scope. Based on Two Years's Holiday (1888), the story tells of a group of schoolchildren whose ship slips its moorings during a storm, and are afterward shipwrecked on a deserted island. The book is notable for its realistic portrayal of the clashing nationalities and inclinations of the ... Read More
Rating: - Very Poor Adaptation of Jules Verne's Adventure Tale
Australian film "Boys of Lost Island" is loosely based on "Deux ans de vacances" (Two Years' Vacation), Jules Verne's 1888 novel. I know little about the film itself, but according to IMDb, it was made in 1969 with largely unknown cast.
Anyway, probably you know Verne's original story, which is about fifteen boys (and a dog) stranded on an uncharted island. If you are looking for the same kind of adventures as the book, you will be much disappointed with this adaptation, which lacks virtually ... Read More
Rating:  - A fair-to-middlin' movie for the kids...
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...but quite slowly paced and most assuredly outdated.
It's so politically incorrect, for example, that it shows adolescent and preadolescent boys - without adult supervision - confidently and effectively handling the sorts of small-caliber rifles that rural Americans learn to use at about the same age. And it accepts this as a matter of common sense, as if anyone who supposed otherwise was some sort of drooling idiot.
If you have a kid in the household who had enjoyed ... Read More
Rating: - Puerile, inaccurate, ignorant garbage
This is the worst movie I have ever watched. The maritime details are ridiculous. The yawl which delivers the boys (unharmed and unafraid) to the lost island is referred to by everyone, including the officials mounting a search, as a schooner. None of the boys wear lifejackets, even in the storm which drives them ashore. There is no sign of a radio although these are mandatory. The yacht carries rifles and ammunition and the boys are expert enough to shoot down birds on the wing, yet when they are fired ... Read More
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