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Let's hear it for jungle exploration. You can hunt for legendary lost civilizations. Search for a city overflowing with gold. Swap insults with tribesmen who look like they have their hair teased by the same stylist who fixes up Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue.
It's all in a day's work for Allan Quatermain, the rugged but trim adventurer who's scouring the African jungle for his lost brother in "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold" (citywide). Intended as a sequel to 1985's "King Solomon's Mines," this agonizingly dull update features lots of gorgeous Zimbabwe scenery, an idiotic plot, bug-eyed natives and . . . well, lots more of that gorgeous scenery.
As in "Mines," the film features Richard Chamberlain as Quatermain and Sharon Stone as his lovely fiancee,...