Review of Land of the Lost (2009) by Kurtis M — 02 Sep 2011
Land of the Lost is one of those things were they take an old property and make a movie about it, but then the movie ends up having nothing to do with whats its based on, in this case they take the 1970's childrens science fiction tv series, use that as a framework and then put a Will Ferrell movie over top of that.
And thats the biggest problem, its just a Will Ferrell manchild movie with a bunch of special effects, which I thought were very poorly done, because the effects are only good in the sense that they're better than the effects in the original tv show.
What you get besides the effects, is like I said a Will Ferrel movie, which means there's plenty of scenes of him yelling loudly and running around, and his costars don't add anything to the film, Danny McBride is basically playing himself, Anna Friel really serves no purpose and the monkey thing named Chaka was just annoying through the whole film.
I'm sure that kids are going to like it, which admittedly is the audience for this considering that was who the original show was for, but at the same time the movie tries to be raunchy at several points so its almost not for kids in a sense, but if your over 8 years old, even the raunchy parts aren't going to keep you interested.
This review of Land of the Lost (2009) was written by Kurtis M on 02 Sep 2011.
Land of the Lost has generally received mixed reviews.
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