Land of the Lost
by Brad Silberling
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Actor: Anna Friel, Danny McBride, John Boylan, Jorma Taccone, Will FerrellDirector: Brad Silberling
Brand: NBC Universal
Producer: Brad Silberling
Producer: Adam McKay
Producer: Daniel Lupi
Writer: Chris Henchy
Writer: Dennis McNicholas
Writer: Marty Krofft
Writer: Sid Krofft
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
Published: 2009-10-01
DVD Release Date: 2009-10-13
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
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- Condition: Used, Good
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Land of the Lost
Movie Review: Ferrell and Company...In over their heads in another Dimension
Summary: 5 Stars
This spoof-satire is one of my favorite Ferrell flicks with an outstanding supporting cast working with an outlandish, mind-blowingly impossible script. If your hope is to see something based on reality then I suggest you look elsewhere. If you have ever seen the TV show it was based on (which was equally unbelievable) it uses that as a touchstone but takes that to a whole new level of craziness.
We begin with Dr. Rick Marshall (Ferrell) as a scientist that develops some theories of time-travel. Although he gets some fame/infamy it seems like his theories are soon discredited and his career path has fallen to the level of working at the La Brea Tar Pits doing scientific demonstrations for children's field trips (poorly) and validating parking in his spare time (see DVD extras for some hilarious deleted scenes). He puts his machine together and gets convinced by the closest thing to a straight-man in the film, Holly Cantrell (played by the lovely and talented Anna Friel) who is not only virtuous and intelligent but has seemingly-unshakable faith in Dr. Marshall, to try it out. They are led by his Tachyon Meter to one of those weird middle of nowhere "pray that the people passing by here stop" attractions Devil's Canyon Mystery Cave run by none other than Danny McBride. McBride plays his usual wannabe tough guy/trailer trash character, named Will Stanton in this case, who with his own brand of under-informed vanity, is a comedic gold match-up with Ferrell's character.
To cut to the chase they are soon transported to another time, with past, present and future mixed up in a wonderfully weird/oblique way, where they immediately encounter and save the life of their simian-human companion/resident tour guide Chaka, Jorma Taccone, who seems to be either leading them to danger or safety (it is often hard to tell if he just helped or hurt them or figure out his motives). The interactions of this unlikely crew with all of the dinosaurs, lizard people, time portals, etc... as they try to alternately explore, escape and survive this bizarre new world makes up the rest of the movie complete with a sequence where they consume some type of narcotic substance in this strange desert landscape and have a trippy yet somehow bonding pool party, as if it wasn't weird enough.
I loved it and my wife (who thinks many comedies I like are stupid/ridiculous) and my kids loved it which is rare for all of us to like the same movie so much. If having to choose between "Anchorman", "Talladega Nights","Step Brothers" or "Land of the Lost" again I think "LotL" is the funniest as far as laughing out loud goes. For what it's worth I didn't really like "Blades of Glory" or "Semi-Pro" that much and I'd generally avoid seeing them again. Ferrell has developed and cultivated this character that plows/stumbles through these situations , sometimes unintentionally, with the opposite of traditional leading man virtues. "Land of the Lost" is a great vehicle for his type of character. Ferrell is at his best when he is in over his head and this movie has seemingly endless opportunities for that. He comes up with nonsensical solutions (at least everybody in the audience realizes they are) and bravely, or crazily, tries to pull them off. Somehow or another he gets to the other side, and that is the fun part.
The ending has two great setups for a sequel so hopefully some brave producer will get behind it someday soon.
Summary of Land of the Lost
Comedic genius Will Ferrell stars as has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, who gets more than he bargained for when his expedition takes a wrong turn into the Land of the Lost. Now, Marshall, his crack-smart research assistant Holly (Anna Friel) and a redneck survivalist named Will (Danny McBride), have no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts to survive in a world full of marauding dinosaurs, fantastic creatures and laugh-out-loud comedy!How to make a big-screen version of Sid and Marty Krofft's Seventies TV show? In this case, place the thing in the meaty hands of Will Ferrell and give the special effects a big upgrade. If you grew up with the show, you will recall that Marshall, Will, and Holly fall through a time warp into a land where dinosaurs roam and all kind of weird things grow. In this version, Ferrell plays a disgraced scientist, Anna Friel a brainy postgraduate, and Danny McBride (Pineapple Express) the sleazy owner of a desert tourist trap that happens to be home to the time portal. This begins to suggest how this movie wants to have it both ways: keep some of the original's kid appeal, but raunch it up just enough for fans of Judd Apatow's movies. The result is that nothing really works very well. There's no momentum to the plot, the locations are monotonous, and Ferrell and McBride are desperate in their attempts to generate something out of nothing. Granted, they succeed a few times--these guys are too funny to whiff completely--but the strain is visible. And although the effects, are competent, the movie can't even get its fantasy rules straight (why is the T. Rex sometimes ferocious and sometimes indifferent?). Fans of the show will enjoy hearing the cheesy theme song worked in (Ferrell performs a zonked version) and seeing how the movie updates the menacing Sleestaks. But on a basic level Land of the Lost has no idea what it's doing, or what it means to do. --Robert Horton
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