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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
Caught in an unfunny netherworld between kid-oriented mainstream summer entertainment and a cheap-looking green-screened sort of surreality, it might have been a watchable, no, bearable movie had it just embraced one or the other fully.
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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 pathetic, witless state of modern film comedy and mass appeal. Even at this level, 'Land of the Lost' bores.
It's a little dismaying to hear a man as funny as Will Ferrell give forth with witless exclamations like "Captain Kirk's nipples!"
Defying space and time, we will see one of the worse films of this year.
This big screen re-invention of the hokey old saturday morning series is a passably silly summer guilty pleasure thanks to the antics of Will Ferrell and Danny McBride.
... one can't help but wonder if a more serious version wouldn't have been better... possibly even in the hands of someone like Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits anyone?)
Asks viewers to take off their thinking caps and put on their dunce hats. Comic rewards await for those who agree to do just that.
Embrace the inane wackiness that is Land of the Lost. Seriously, you need to chuck any rational thought and just let yourself enjoy this one %u2013 and don't feel ashamed about it.
This seems like a good fit. A mediocre comedian featured in a parody of what some believe is the worst Saturday morning kiddie show in history.
You sit for long stretches where set pieces fail on every level and then laugh at a PG-13-skirting entendre or an strange reference or a rambling bit of improv from McBride
Unfortunately, the best moments are all on view in the various trailers and film clips available on the Internet, which makes the experience of watching the complete film somewhat disappointing.
The only positive thing I can say about Land of the Lost is that it's so bad perhaps it will put an end to the classic-TV-to-film machine.
... an aimless romp lost in the land of juvenile humor and missed opportunities.
It bears too much resemblance to the detritus jumbled across its frame: patchwork components trying vainly to form a cohesive whole.
Tiresome, repetitive and time-warped, the title says it all.
A big budget, limp comedic exercise in male adolescence.
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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