Will Ferrell is a buzz kill to this innuendo-laced comedy that's unrelated to the television series it's ostensibly based on.
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06/05/09
Land of the Lost (2009)
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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.
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
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Land of the Lost makes a wise decision to never poke fun at its source material's campy flaws; instead it takes the best parts of the beloved series and puts a hilariously off-the-wall spin on it.
06/05/09
The reason this new picture works on occasion is precisely because it isn't a Will Ferrell movie; rather, it's a movie that just happens to star Will Ferrell.
06/05/09
The Will Ferrell Comedy Train might be out of steam.
06/05/09
In the interim, however, he makes us laugh now and then, and that is supposedly why we’re there in the first place.
06/05/09
Maybe those lowered expectations played some part, but I was very, very surprised by the actual movie.
06/05/09
a dumb, fun amusement park ride, and it touched a certain level of childlike excitement in myself. I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, but I had a blast watching it.
06/05/09
It’s a little more than half and half, definitely fun to watch with some memorable parts.
06/05/09
Even Will Ferrell can’t save the repetitive, inane and uninspired humor from often falling flat.
06/05/09
It lives down to the source material.
06/05/09
Land of the Lost is if nothing else an interesting place to visit.
06/05/09
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.
06/05/09
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.
06/05/09
This is the worst adaptation of a classic kids TV show to the big screen since …well, since last year’s joyless movie Speed Racer. But Land raises the bar on joylessness.
06/05/09
Pity the unwitting parents who take their kids to see Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell's terminally stupid, sloppy, campy and cheesy -- and thoroughly unexciting and unfunny -- experiment in 'family entertainment.'
06/05/09
I hereby pronounce Land of the Lost the funniest dinosaur movie since Caveman.
06/05/09
It all amounts to a certain brand of comedy -- something closer to long-form Dada than conventional humor.
06/05/09
I'm pleased to report the new Land of the Lost movie keenly understands that what was once scary is now ridiculous.
06/05/09
When it comes to movies, there's good stupid and there's just plain stupid. Land of the Lost is just plain stupid, and that's not good.
06/05/09
Land of the Lost is harmless enough. It just isn't, with the exception of a few odd air pockets, particularly funny.
06/05/09
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