Land of the Lost

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

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

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.

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.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

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

San Francisco Chronicle Amy Binacolli

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

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.

Washington Post Hank Stuever

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

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.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

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

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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

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

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.

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.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

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

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.

Empire William Thomas

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

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.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

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

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.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

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

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

The whole thing feels at least three summers too stale.

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.

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

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

Film Threat Don R. Lewis

Summertime junk food.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

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

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.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

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

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.