Something for everyone

Rating: 8/10 (8 August 2009)

This is a charming movie, agree with most of the other posted comments. As a former resident of Venezuela, it was also great to see the tepuis (flat-topped mountains) of the Gran Sabana to the south of the country represented in the movie. Paradise Falls, are of course Angel Falls, the tallest on earth, falling off Ayuntepui mountain, and Charles Muntz, the villain of the story, has his resonance in Professor Challenger of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous book "The Lost World". In the book published in 1912, Challenger also finds a rare animal, in this case a prehistoric flying reptile, on a journey to South America. He reports his discovery back in London but is ridiculed, and returns to capture the beast and bring it back to prove his skeptics wrong. Conan Doyle is widely believed to have taken the tepuis of Venezuela as his inspiration for the book, specifically the huge mountain of Roraima whose summit has exactly the same rain and wind shaped rock formations that appear in the movie.