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[A] gigantic chunk of scat.
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.
The movie is 90 minutes of bickering and blase under-reaction to outrageous events, interrupted by gross-out scraps such as Ferrell's run-in with an enormous mosquito, which ends with a tremendous amount of blood and guts.
This isn't the Land of the Lost you remember from childhood, but get on its antisocial wavelength and it's fitfully laugh-out-loud funny.
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.
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!
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