Will Ferrell and Danny McBride can find the dumb fun in anything. Too bad that Land of the Lost is so much less than anything.
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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
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Not exactly a hundred million dollars' worth of classic comedy.
06/05/09
Land of the Lost isn't the butt of the joke, Will Ferrell is, and we've seen this movie before.
06/05/09
Ferrell plays Dr. Rick Marshall, Quantum Paleologist. Well, kinda. He's really just Will Ferrell, Guy Who Wears Speedos No Matter What Movie He's In.
06/05/09
A wildly bizarre and frequently hilarious adventure that appears to be whacked-out by design, not out of sloppiness.
06/05/09
Two funny actors and a criminally underused actress tramp around an alternate reality in search of comedy but not finding much for us to laugh at.
06/04/09
Land of the Lost is only one hour and 36 minutes long, but it could easily be 15 minutes shorter without the scenes of Ferrell's meandering ad-libs.
06/04/09
An amusing and incredibly strange experience that might have you laughing at the ballsiness of pulling something as crazy as this off.
06/04/09
Land of the Lost becomes an endurance test -- one that's too borderline bawdy for families and too dull and rote for anyone over 15. Who, exactly, is the intended audience for this drivel?
06/04/09
Will Ferrell justifies his outsized fame in this surprisingly bizarre and dirty adaptation of the campy '70s TV time-travel classic.
06/04/09
This only intermittently amusing film isn't going to win over any new fans of the divisive Will Ferrell.
06/04/09
Why remake a property when the demographic you're aiming at would have almost no familiarity with the original? Wouldn't it be enough to just hire someone to write a movie with Will Ferrell and dinosaurs and be done with it?
06/04/09
Genially terrible, Lost is lazy, sloppy multiplex filler, good for a few solid giggles and not much more.
06/04/09
(T)he equivalent of a nonsexual succubus, slowly sucking out the audience's intellect with each succeeding scene.
06/04/09
It doesn’t help that neither Ferrell nor McBride bring their best material, with McBride offering yet another variation on an angry redneck, and Ferrell falling back on Ron Burgundy-like bluster and nonsense exclamations.
06/04/09
A soulless special effects flick crossed with a tired gross-out comedy.
06/04/09
as much of a nonsensical head-scratcher as the source show.
06/04/09
Will Ferrell has officially used up my cache of good will...
06/04/09
This Land exists at the bottom of the pop-cultural barrel.
06/04/09
Not a children's movie, but a movie for people with childlike minds, Land of the Lost" combines the kind of juvenile humor that might amuse a 14-year-old with a shoddy plot that wouldn't satisfy a 5-year-old.
06/04/09
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