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Land of the Lost

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Land of the Lost reviews
32
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Adventure  |  Comedy  |  Sci-fi

Written by: Chris Henchy
Dennis McNicholas

Directed by: Brad Silberling

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 5, 2009
DVD: October 13, 2009

Running Time: minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content, and for language including a drug reference

Starring Will Ferrell, Danny R. McBride, Anna Friel, and Jorma Taccone

Has-been scientist, Dr. Rick Marshall, is sucked into a vortex and spat back through time. Way back. Now, Marshall has no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts to survive in an alternate universe full of marauding dinosaurs and fantastic creatures from beyond our world - a place of spectacular sights and super-scaled comedy known as the Land of the Lost. (Universal Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

I guess you have to be in the mood for a goofball picture like this. I guess I was.

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75

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

I'm pleased to report the new Land of the Lost movie keenly understands that what was once scary is now ridiculous.

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70

Slate Dana Stevens

Land of the Lost is an enjoyable regression to Saturday mornings gone by, as junky and sweet as a strawberry Pop-Tart.

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63

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Scrambled space-time comedy that's as light and silly as it is erratic.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Amy Binacolli

The result is eight times as strange and exponentially more potty-mouthed than the original series.

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50

TV Guide Perry Seibert

If director Brad Silberling had taken this cast to their natural extremes, he might have delivered a raucously funny sci-fi comedy -- think "Anchorman" meets "Jurassic Park." Instead, Land of the Lost is an utter misfire -- not bad enough to hate, not good enough to remember.

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50

Washington Post Hank Stuever

It's cheap-looking (dinosaurs and other beasts here look like CGI loaners from Spielberg), deeply mediocre and predictable.

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50

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

It ends up sagging into a pleasantly undistinguished pudding. The big news is that Matt Lauer, playing himself, can act. A little. Hardly at all, really. But he’s a jolly good sport, and quite handy with a fire extinguisher.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Land of the Lost has stray amusing tidbits, but overall it leaves you feeling splattered.

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50

USA Today Claudia Puig

It's hard to know just who the intended audience is: The movie is too surreal and bawdy for young kids and too silly for anyone older than 25.

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50

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Not exactly a hundred million dollars' worth of classic comedy.

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40

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

The only marginally interesting, if unsurprising, thing about the pricey movie spinoff of the junky children's television show Land of the Lost is that a lot of money has been spent on yet another cultural throwaway.

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40

Time Richard Corliss

Ferrell's latest excursion into delusions of manhood is director Brad Silberling's Land of the Lost, an action comedy with the sloppy construction and saving grace notes of the star's other movies.

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40

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Land of the Lost isn't a terrible movie. It's merely a perplexing one: Who is this thing for?

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40

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

Like its characters, the film keeps getting lost too, stumbling as it struggles to keep kids and adults from squirming in their seats.

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40

Empire William Thomas

Humdrum adaptation that should, given the ripe nature of its source material, have been much better.

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38

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

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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38

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Genially terrible, Lost is lazy, sloppy multiplex filler, good for a few solid giggles and not much more.

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38

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Ferrell may well shoulder the blame for Land of the Lost, even if he doesn't deserve it. He did, however, willingly participate in this coarse, sloppy big-screen version of the old Saturday-morning time-warp adventure.

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38

ReelViews James Berardinelli

A turd of T-Rex proportions, Land of the Lost makes one remember last summer's "Speed Racer" fondly.

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38

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

The whole thing feels at least three summers too stale.

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33

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

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.

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33

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

It's all so resolutely uninspired that even the kids in the audience may want to duck out.

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30

Film Threat Don R. Lewis

Summertime junk food.

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30

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

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.

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30

Variety Brian Lowry

The result is a movie with an exceedingly narrow target audience that should test Will Ferrell's appeal among boys maybe ages 12-14 -- about the only demo likely able to endure this laborious mess.

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25

Premiere Rob Calvert

There is also a sense that the filmmakers weren't quite certain if they wanted to make a fun, kid-friendly adventure or a bawdy adult-skewed comedy. Walking the tightrope doesn't work.

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25

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Land of the Lost is one of those films so caught up in its concept it has forgotten its audience.

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20

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

This lumbering, ha-ha-look-what-we-remade action-comedy is a high-concept disaster.

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20

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

It's all noise and flash and chaos, but it lacks virtually everything that made the original television series so memorable.

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12

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Will Ferrell's terminally stupid, sloppy, campy and cheesy -- and thoroughly unexciting and unfunny -- experiment in "family entertainment."

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0

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

This dramatically, thematically and artistically bankrupt comic fantasy cost something in the neighborhood of $100 million to make and isn't worth the celluloid it's printed on.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 69 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Rick B gave it a9:
This movie was a blast. I laughed over and over. It had little if any resemblance to the TV show from my childhood. But as usual, Ebert loves it and so do I. It's stupid and funny. Maybe it's because my life has been filled with enough tragedy and comedy that I don't need that in my movies to enjoy them. Note to self: don't be a reviewer of movies, my life is clearly too interesting.

Matt W gave it a2:
A real snooze fest. Nothing worse than a comedy movie that just isn't funny.

Jay H gave it a4:
What a stupid movie. Of course, it does have Will Ferrell in it, that should have been warning enough. Even more disappointing, the special effects are only fair. There are a few , very few, amusing scenes, the majority are lame and not very funny.

Mark D. gave it a2:
Muddled, confused, half-funny. A waste of time.

David gave it a10:
The best will ferrell movie yet. I don't know why it got the reviews it did. It was funny and adventure. Sure Will Ferrell has some really stupid funny comedy that some may not appreciate. But, most of it was actually funny. See this movie!

Natalie M gave it a0:
I can't believe how bad this was, what a waste of 2hrs of my life that I'll never get back. If they took out the adolescent 'joke', then it would have a U rating for its lameness, it was dire.

Mike S gave it a4:
The only part where i laughed out loud was the very end of the movie.... Other than that, it wasn't a very entertaining movie... Mediocre at best in my opinion.

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