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Reviews Counted:170
Fresh:43
Rotten:127
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Jun 5, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $49,392,095
Synopsis: Space-time vortexes suck. Will Ferrell stars as has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, sucked into one and spat back through time. Way back. Now, Marshall has no weapons, few skills and... [More]
Starring: Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, Anna Friel, Jorma Taccone
Director: Brad Silberling
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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...
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.
There are genuine thrills, gross-out moments, zingy lines and a Will Ferrell in solid form. No one asked for this movie, but now that it's here, we should be pleased.
By and large, it’s knockabout kids’ stuff (and has been advertised on that basis), but it has some quite risqué smut.
There's a docu-drama to be made about movies like this. About how no-one had the courage to tell the star: This ain't funny!
Humdrum adaptation that should, given the ripe nature of its source material, have been much better.
A 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.
It's not just the land that feels lost in Ferrell's lumbering latest. After Bewitched, you'd have thought he'd have learned to leave old TV shows well alone.
A doughily inexpressive Will Ferrell extinguishes any flicker of originality in one of the worst performances of his career.
It is very surreal, absurd, and often quite gross, with loads of very arch and knowing gags. It's not going to win any awards. Really, it's a DVD rental. There are some laughs. I laughed, anyway.
The humour is lame and more than a little smutty, while the plot barely hangs together.
Neither conventional action-adventure or enough of an out-there pastiche, this really is the land of the lost.
It’s not clear whether the director, Brad Silberling, is camping it up or simply trying to get through it all without too much strain.
Like a valley of sedimentary rock, the film is comprised of layer upon crumbling layer of dumbness.
Too rude for kids and too dumb for grown-ups, this laboured romp is a dino-snore.
Drawn out to 100 punishing minutes, this has all the markings of 2009's flabbiest summer turkey.
As a TV-to-movie remake, LOTL ranks with Lost In Space: fitfully entertaining, largely uninspired. Ferrell does his best, but ends up stranded in the middle of an ideas desert.
October 21, 2009:
RT on DVD: Land of the Lost and Hannah Montana
This week, Will Ferrell and Danny McBride's bizarro comedy Land of the Lost arrives on DVD (surely bound for a possible cult following among stoners), as does Miley Cyrus' first... More...
October 19, 2009:
American Medical Assocation Reprimands Universal for Land of the Lost 
Reviled by critics and largely tuned out by audiences, Universal's "Land of the Lost" also alienated the American Medical Association, which has pronounced the movie "a real... More...
October 06, 2009:
A Frightful Time for Hollywood's Major Studios
It's fitting that Halloween will arrive at the end of the month, because between surprise firings, plummeting profits, and the sudden death of the DVD market, Hollywood is in... More...
August 17, 2009:
Uni's Dismal Summer Prompts Soul-Searching
2009 has been brutal for Universal so far -- and with a disappointing summer drawing to a close for the studio, chairmen Marc Shmuger and David Linde have some hard questions to... More...
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