Neither conventional action-adventure or enough of an out-there pastiche, this really is the land of the lost.
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07/31/09
Land of the Lost (2009)
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Reviews Counted:169
Fresh:43
Rotten:126
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.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jun 11, 2009 Wide
US 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
Reviews for Land of the Lost
21 - 40 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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.
07/31/09
Like a valley of sedimentary rock, the film is comprised of layer upon crumbling layer of dumbness.
07/31/09
Too rude for kids and too dumb for grown-ups, this laboured romp is a dino-snore.
07/31/09
Drawn out to 100 punishing minutes, this has all the markings of 2009's flabbiest summer turkey.
07/31/09
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.
07/31/09
The funniest aspect of this turkey is that it cost more than $100 million to make, yet it still looks like something assembled by idiots. It's one of the most abject family films ever to have slithered out of Hollywood's nether regions.
07/31/09
The crude humour is as unfunny as it is ill-judged. Set to become a favourite of bad movie clubs everywhere.
07/31/09
A lumbering and largely unamusing comedy adventure. Ferrell and McBride are occasionally funny when they head into improv territory, but on the whole it is a limp affair.
07/31/09
Find your juvenile inner self and you might just enjoy Land Of The Lost.
07/31/09
Will Ferrell capers earnestly through a Journey to the Center of the Earth-style comic romp witless of script, wan of invention and pasty of imagery.
07/31/09
It's a kind of cut-price Jurassic Park, with a support cast of gabbling monkeys and lizardish humanoids, and if they don't seem far-fetched you might believe Anna Friel as a Cambridge- educated scientist.
07/31/09
This big-budget revamp of the Seventies TV series flounders around with little consistency of tone, courting kids with roaring dinosaurs and visual gags, then winking at adults with near‑the‑knuckle asides.
07/31/09
The insane comedy/action hybrid emerges as a nutty, funny, unashamedly weird action comedy hybrid that is more consistently laugh-grabbing than many of its contemporaries doing far better business at the box office.
07/31/09
Land of the Lost has decent special effects but ultimately fails thanks to a poorly written script, a general lack of imagination, a series of painfully unfunny gags.
07/31/09
It's far too raunchy for family audiences, nowhere near funny enough to satisfy comedy fans, and asks us to get all nostalgic about a 70s TV show that nobody in the UK has heard about.
07/31/09
In a summer of terrible blockbusters, Land of the Lost's ability to distinguish itself as the worst of the bunch (so far) is almost commendable, given that its awfulness appears to have been achieved so effortlessly.
07/31/09
Just too random and silly to make any sense at all. Although there are a few laughs along the way
07/23/09
Be it dead serious, moronic racecar driver Ricky Bobby or idiotic, deadpan Ron Burgandy, Ferrell has managed to create quite the niche for himself as the honest, earnest moron.
07/21/09
Land of the Lost the movie is upbeat, pretty silly, but funny in enough portion to render it pleasant, with heavy reliance on the tongue-in-cheek art of understatement.
07/14/09
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October 21, 2009:
RT on DVD: Land of the Lost and Hannah Montana
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October 19, 2009:
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October 06, 2009:
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