Land of the Lost [Blu-ray] by Brad Silberling, starring Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, Danny McBride, Jorma Taccone, John Boylan: DVDNear.com

Land of the Lost [Blu-ray]

Land of the Lost [Blu-ray]
by Brad Silberling

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Actor: Anna Friel, Danny McBride, John Boylan, Jorma Taccone, Will Ferrell
Director: Brad Silberling
Brand: NBC Universal
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-10-13
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal

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Movie Review: Yes, it's directed at the series' fans! They're adults now!
Summary: 5 Stars

Marshall, Will, and Holly, on a routine expedition, met the greatest earthquake ever known,... but this isn't the same Marshall, Will, and Holly. Instead of a father with his two children being turned into a stone-age Swiss Family Robinson, here we have Dr. Rick Marshall, an arrogant paleontologist with a theory about parallel dimensions that ruins his career until his fire is rekindled by sexy Brit Holly Cantrell, a newbie scientist who is fascinated with his work. Together, they follow Marshall's tachyon amplifier invention to a roadside tourist trap in the desert that proves to hide a vortex to a parallel world: the Land of the Lost! Along with the tourist trap proprietor, redneck rebel Will Stanton, Marshall and Holly travel to the mysterious land where they encounter a T-Rex named Grumpy, a plethora of vicious lizard-men called Sleestaks, and a monkey-man named Cha-Ka who joins their little group. The explorers, fascinated at first, soon find themselves frequently running for their lives while questing to recover Marshall's invention and save a Sleestak leader and his people. It's constantly bizarre, but very hilarious and loads of fun!

"Land of the Lost" is unquestionably for fans of Will Ferrell. If you don't like him, you're not going to like this film. It's great for fans of the old TV show if you can handle the re-imagining of the human characters (all the other elements are there), but Will Ferrell haters just aren't going to like this (why some Ferrell fans don't like it, I cannot imagine)! It helps if you're a Danny McBride and Anna Friel fan too (in fact, McBride particularly shines in this film). It's all about this misfit trio and the wacky situations and creatures that inhabit the Land of the Lost. The effects are excellent and so is everything else. Yes, it's loaded with "adult humor", as one should expect from the cast, but it's consistently very funny and doesn't feel like it's retreading old ground in neither the dinosaur film department nor the adult humor department. I suppose, at the heart of the issue that made this film a flop is that A: A lot of moviegoers didn't watch the old show, and B: most of those who did wanted the film to have the same tone and take on the characters. Oh, well. Discover this one on your own, because if you love the cast and especially the old Land of the Lost shows, this film should be perfect for you if you know what to expect!

The Blu-Ray looks fantastic and includes deleted scenes, fun, funny, and informative featurettes that include interviews with the original "Land of the Lost" creators, Sid and Marty Krofft, and a director commentary. Well worth owning and with a fantastic ending too!

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Summary of Land of the Lost [Blu-ray]

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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