The movie races around to nowhere in particular, more concerned with rarely spectacular spectacle than a beating heart.
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06/04/09
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
141 - 160 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
A pleasantly undistinguished pudding.
06/04/09
Audiences of a certain sort will be dumbstruck by how high the silliness gets piled; but whether or not you're puffin' stuff, you'll likely get lost in laughter.
06/04/09
It's not that Land of the Lost is devoid of humor or adventure... Ultimately, though, the film feels like a series of ideas thrown at the wall, with only some of them sticking.
06/04/09
Preteen boys and Ferrell followers will like it fine. Wider audiences might be harder to impress.
06/04/09
On the Ferrell scale, Land of the Lost ranks squarely below Anchorman and leagues above Semi-Pro, landing right in that murky middle-ground Talladega Nights territory. Let your tolerance level for the comedian be your guide. If
06/04/09
Land of the Lost is, unfortunately, a perfect example of studio bloat: It's all noise and flash and chaos, but it lacks virtually everything that made the original television series so memorable.
06/04/09
[M]erely a cynical attempt to mine some cash from one of the few remnants of Generation X's collective childhood that has yet to be picked over for the sake of nostalgia...
06/04/09
An aggressively weird, suitably uneven and decidedly un-kid-friendly keg-stand of nostalgia for those unable to scrub the fever-dream of a series from their memories.
06/04/09
Confronted with such effects, the actors make not the slightest effort to appear terrified, amazed or sometimes even mildly concerned. Some might consider that a weakness. I suspect it is more of a deliberate choice, and I say I enjoyed it.
06/04/09
Top CriticStill boring, senseless and something no one should be proud of.
06/04/09
Lost feels haphazardly scripted on cocktail napkins and creatively fueled by paychecks and a series of dares. It's Ferrell harvesting the wilted fields of absurdity, turning mild '70's entertainment into a tuneless slapstick comedy.
06/04/09
Lame sketch comedy, an uninspired performance from Will Ferrell and an overall failure of the imagination turn Brad Silberling's Land of the Lost into a lethargic meander through a wilderness of misfiring gags.
06/04/09
Dull, unfunny, and completely unsuitable for viewing by anyone who isn't a charter member of the Will Farrell fan club.
06/04/09
Tonally inconsistent, incoherently plotted and almost never funny.
06/04/09
We're in Howard the Duck and Pluto Nash territory here...so awful that watching all forty-three episodes of the original without a break would be less painful.
06/03/09
Director Silberberg should have known better than to go with this draft by TV writers Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas, an "SNL" shtick-meister.
06/03/09
Director Brad Silberling can't seem to decide whether he's making fun of the show's cheesy visuals or seizing on its sense of roughhewn adventure.
06/03/09
McBride and Ferrell, who seems content to spin his wheels in vehicles that indulge his passion for stripping and dumbing down, are gifted performers. Here, they are given little to work with, and deliver accordingly.
06/03/09
Modernizing a 1970s children's TV show known for its cheap special effects offered certain possibilities, but the filmmakers have traded in any kid-friendly elements for bathroom humor of dinosaur-sized proportions.
06/03/09
Top CriticLatest News for Land of the Lost
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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