By and large, it’s knockabout kids’ stuff (and has been advertised on that basis), but it has some quite risqué smut.
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08/04/09
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.
Theatrical Release:31-07-2009
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
There's a docu-drama to be made about movies like this. About how no-one had the courage to tell the star: This ain't funny!
08/03/09
Humdrum adaptation that should, given the ripe nature of its source material, have been much better.
07/31/09
Top CriticA ragbag of lackadaisical plotting, drugs references, puerile lechery and shiny effects work, an assemblage far from child-friendly yet not quite grungey enough to wow older teens.
07/31/09
Top CriticIt's not just the land that feels lost in Ferrell's lumbering latest. After Bewitched, you'd have thought he'd have learned to leave old TV shows well alone.
07/31/09
Top CriticA doughily inexpressive Will Ferrell extinguishes any flicker of originality in one of the worst performances of his career.
07/31/09
Top CriticIt is very surreal, absurd, and often quite gross, with loads of very arch and knowing gags. It's not going to win any awards. Really, it's a DVD rental. There are some laughs. I laughed, anyway.
07/31/09
Top CriticThe humour is lame and more than a little smutty, while the plot barely hangs together.
07/31/09
Top CriticNeither conventional action-adventure or enough of an out-there pastiche, this really is the land of the lost.
07/31/09
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
Top CriticDrawn 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
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