Land of the Lost (2009)
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 186
Fresh: 48 | Rotten: 138
Only loosely based on the original TV series, Land of the Lost is decidedly less kid-friendly and feels more like a series of inconsistent sketches than a cohesive adventure comedy.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 31
Only loosely based on the original TV series, Land of the Lost is decidedly less kid-friendly and feels more like a series of inconsistent sketches than a cohesive adventure comedy.
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This big-screen adaptation of Land of the Lost stars Will Ferrell as Dr. Rick Marshall, a quantum paleontologist who has been discredited in the scientific world due to his strident belief in time travel as the cure for all of humanity's problems. After hitting an all-time low, giving a lecture to elementary school kids, Dr. Marshall meets an ambitious young scientist named Holly (Anna Friel), who tells him she has followed all his work and believes he's a genius. Spurred on by her enthusiasm,
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Danny McBride
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All Critics (187) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (140) | DVD (11)
[A] gigantic chunk of scat.
Top CriticA ragbag of lackadaisical plotting, drugs references, puerile lechery and shiny effects work, an assemblage far from child-friendly yet not quite grungey enough to wow older teens.
A seriously mistaken enterprise, this Cat in the Hat-worthy stinker grafts the DNA of a Gerald Ford-era children's TV show (barely remembered by thirtysomethings) to the restless-leg freneticism of today's CGI-heavy blockbustering.
The interesting thing, though, when you actually see "Land of the Lost," is that it ... essentially functions as a high-cost, high-gloss parody of itself.
Farrell and McBride are great together at times in this movie.
Danny McBride is funny in the movie, not nearly often enough.
Danny McBride and Will Ferrell make it worth a trip to Land of the Lost.
Who is this movie being made for in the first place?
By stringing together a bunch of campy retro set-ups and witty improvs, Land of the Lost manages to be a watchable comedy with plenty of laughs.
Land of the Lost is a terrible family film - let's just get that out there - but it is certain to live on as a staple of bleary-eyed uni students' movie nights; sandwiched in-between repeat viewings of The Wall.
Ladies and gentlemen- this is it. This is the moment where Will Ferrell's shtick (already wearing thin after his last couple of films) officially got old.
Better than "Bewitched," if only for its straightforwardness. Then again, even Nora Ephron didn't turn Will Ferrell into a colonoscopic agent for a dinosaur. Depending on if you like him, that may be a comic equivalent to the Berlin Wall's collapse.
...the film boasts a pervasively puerile sensibility that's reflected in virtually all of its attributes...
Ferrell's reboot of '70s show is rife with gross-out laughs.
Boasts a lewd monkey man fond of fondling human private parts without permission, apparently not a felony in prehistoric times, boob sign language chuckles, Tyrannosaurus tongue baths, and moments of humor that seem to arrive centuries apart.
Not really a film version of the oft-rerun '70s Saturday morning staple that happens to star Will Ferrell, but rather a Will Ferrell movie that happens to bear the title and some concepts of the show.
Will Ferrell's and Danny McBride's natural charisma isn't sufficient to save Land of the Lost
An odd film, which will hardly be enough to turn it into the massive hit that it needs to be.
Audience Reviews for Land of the Lost
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- Dr. Rick Marshall: Sweat Gregor Mendel.
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- Dr. Rick Marshall: God I hope I get It, I hope I get It.
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- Will: Do you ever get tired of being wrong?
- Dr. Rick Marshall: Yes! I really do!
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- Will: Never trust a guy in a tunic.
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- Will: Told you. Never trust a guy in a tunic.
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- Dr. Rick Marshall: What the h***?
- Will: Oh my bad. I'm man enough to say I was wrong.
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