The Land of the Lost was at one time, a popular 10970’s television show. Today it has been remade into a film, starring the always funny Will Ferrell. Ferrell plays a scientist that strongly believes in the idea of time travel and eventually finds out the truth. With Ferrell and the entire cast, Land of the Lost takes a new spin on the humor and jinks of the original show, while keeping many similarities for the shows fans.
Many of Dr. Marshall’s colleagues do not believe in time travel, therefore he is often being laughed out until he is eventually laughed out of his profession. No longer has a scientist, Dr. Marshall accepted a job as a middle school science teacher, where he finds a friend in Holly, played by Ana Freil. Holly supports Dr. Marshall’s beliefs and encourages him to continue on with his time travel theory.
After an all night eating binge, Dr. Marshall and his new colleague Holly decide to have a live field test of the device and visit a cave in the desert that happens to be a tourist trap run by Will, a flea market fireworks salesman played by Danny McBride. The three of them are sent by a mysterious event hurling into another time dimension. When they arrive, they are greeted by bizarre insects, lizard people and a race of monkey like people, along with a big man eating dinosaur. Ferrell makes instant enemies with the dinosaur for one of the best running gags in the movie.
After the group arrives they meet a monkey person, by the name of Chaka that assists the group in finding their lost time travel device. The group will need this device in order to return home, however finding it turns out to be a more difficult task them expected. During their search they are faced with multiple hazardous situations.
While not the best movie of the summer, or Ferrell’s best work, I think that Elf was his best, this movie is fun and entertaining. McBride and Chaka provide some of the best laughs in the film and Ferrell does his best adolescent-grown-up routine. The special effect and CGI are good and show the wonder of the new world well. The lizard people are a little campy and cheesy, but I think that it is in homage to the classic show. There are a few extras on the disc worth checking out and anything that Ferrell puts any effort into is funny and silly. Though not the blockbuster they were hoping for, this is a pretty fun movie. It deserves its PG-13 rating and is definitely not for the younger viewers because of some of the references and language.
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