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Summary: A SEQUEL DONE - OF EQUAL FUN!
Review: Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone, team up again to bring the sequel to KING SOLOMON'S MINE, a thrilling action adventure, of equal fun. This time, the couple postpone their wedding plans, and head out to find Allan's brother, Robeson, who has disappeared while searching for a lost white race. The fantastic John Rhys-Davies, is replaced by the equally marvelous, James Earl Jones as their guide, Umslopogaas. The fabulously funny Robert Donner, stars as Swarma, the greedy guru.
The couple trek through perilous jungle, facing great dangers, as they work their way toward, and eventually find, the LOST CITY OF GOLD. Once there, Robeson is found, living happily amidst these charming, and happy people. He enlists the help of Allan and his merry band, to rid the city of Agon, a greedy smuggler, posing as a high priest, to terrorize and control the citizens of the city. Secretly, he is smuggling their gold for his own purposes. Together, Allan, Robeson, Jessie, Umslopogaas, and Swarma, work their magic to restore freedom and liberate the city.
Richard Chamberlain once again plays against type, and after enjoying his penchant for comedy in King Solomon's Mines; I suspect this is just one more aspect of the magnificent actor's versatility. He has a very spontaneous dry humor, and can be quite funny. Martin Rabbett, the actor's handsome, real-life partner of 27 years, plays his brother Robeson. Rabbett, pleasingly playful, is also a very fine actor, exuding a remarkable magnetism and a great deal of charisma and charm. The chemistry is triple this time around, with Chamberlain, Stone, and Rabbett. In his book, SHATTERED LOVE, Richard Chamberlain devoted one whole page discussing his enjoyment, working on this film. When the actors are having fun, it shows! This is a wonderful spoof, funny, full of adventure, romance, and is good clean fun for the entire family.
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Summary: PURE HILARITY!!!!!!!!!LAughed till (...) came out!!
Review: So hilarious! I could not stop laughing. some friends went so far as to do a bashing on the internet, in sound formats. (...)
It's good to see others get a laugh out of quatermain too!
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Summary: very funny
Review: This DVD is worth picking up for the first half which is a riot! The entire journey to the Lost City is the best part and incredibly amusing and it's just one crazy thing after another! Very very funny!
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Summary: An unworthy follow-up to an entertaining movie
Review: This movie really only suffers in comparison to its entertaining and fun-loving predecessor KING SOLOMON'S MINES. Filmed back-to-back to save money on what the now defunct Cannon Company obviously thought would be a highly successful franchise. Whereas the first film features an incredible cast including the always amazing John Rhys-Davies and Herbert Lom and a fun, fast paced and amusing series of adventures, this follow-up can only offer us James Earl Jones as a major addition to series regulars Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. In fact Jones steals every scene he appears in, wielding an axe with impressive power.
In this adventure, Allan Quaterman (Chamberlain) sets out across the jungle, with fiancee Jessie (Stone) in tow, in search of his lost brother who apparently has been successful in his search for the Lost City of Gold of the title.
Where this movie fails is that, in contrast to the first movie, the action sequences are uninspired, the comedy is dull to downright annoying and when Chamberlain and Company reach the city it becomes apparent that the only people in danger (his brother is doing fine thank you very much) is Quatermain and company who are tried for killing a sacred lion outside the city gates.
There is some attempt at an action filled climax as they face off with the dastardly wicked High Priest and a band of mercenaries, but it comes too little and too late to save a movie which has already lost its audience during a tired journey to the city.
I really wanted to like this movie. I saw and enjoyed 1985s KING SOLOMONS MINES in the movie theater and for years was curious as to what its sequel had to offer. The answer sadly is - not much. Given its low price completist's might like to pick it up as a companion piece to its superior prequel but for all others this is hard to recommend.
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Summary: Ribs, the lion, and I have a bone to pick with you
Review: This movie was absolutley hilarious in its attempts at an Idiana Jones rip off. Needless to say it was not even close. Granted I didn't see the prequel or the beginning but I saw enough to see how silly it was. In one cave scene they are walking and are randomly attacked by a lion, the lion had no significance to the "so-called" plot and it the attack was never mentioned again. The ending is weak and confusing. Why was the lightining striking the axe? Also, why did Sharon Stone's character have a "bone to pick" with that priestess woman? Nowhere in the movie was she ever disrespected by the woman. And also the priestess woman wore a vest with chains that looked like her ribs. I recommend seeing this movie at three in the morning because everything is quite hilarious.
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Summary: Mankind's Greatest Cultural Achievement
Review: Webster's dictionary:Dreck: adj. see: Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold Apparently James Earl Jones dedicated his salary to a group of bounty hunters charged with the task of tracking down every known copy of this film and destroying it. The effort failed, unfortunately. Run. Run while you still can.
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