Sadly Over-hyped

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Blistering performances.

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Will Ferrell shows his comedic mastery here as Dr. Rick Marshall an arrogant scientist who has lost his bravado as his mission went at an unexpected turn of events as he and his crew, the intelligent assistant Holly (Anna Friel) and a redneck tracker Will (Danny McBride) landed in the mysterious Land of the Lost. With dinosaurs ruling the gambit and other grave dangers ahead, the trifecta are defenseless, weaponless and need to depend on their resourcefulness to survive in a comedy homage to the Sid and Marty Kroffts based on the 1970's TV series.With a formula that will make Ed Wood green with envy, the nostalgia factor truly speaks volumes. The campy nature looks like it was filmed someone's backyard, but it never looked better as it defied itself from any conventional expectations as our protagonists face up with Grumpy the T.Rex. "Land of the Lost" succeeds in breaking the barriers of any sort of conventional film-making by deliberately making it campy and showing no apologies about it. Plus it gives you that opportunity to relax our brains and not once should it be taken seriously.In spite of the vulgar language and the sexual references, Will Ferrell can still produce a compelling performance which will likely appeal to material aimed for a much younger audience. When Dr. Rick and Will go incognito dressed as members of an alien specie known as the Sleestaks, to look unconvincing as the creatures themselves, we see that they know what kind of film they've got themselves into and they're having while they're at it. And how they can still do things in scenes where very little is happening and make it feel like they're doing a service to its audience and that shows they truly care about their audience and want to do everything they can to make us care about them. Okay maybe they went overboard with the whole "All Along The Watchtower" montage as a Bigfoot like creature who they befriended named Cha-Ka (Jorma Taccone) as he and his give them some sort of hallucinogen. For a kids flick, "Land of the Lost" is one whacked out movie.They make no bones about it that this movie is an homage to the Sid and Marty Krofft TV special that ran from 1974-1976. I had a chance to peruse through the show on You Tube and unless you can understand 1970's humour or understand the satirical jokes it has to offer, this series would do no justice. Ferrell and McBride were amazingly hilarious here, and the scenes were truly fun and exciting it can be a bit overly done in terms of surrealism. And though it may not be everyone's cup of tea, from a child's perspective it's got everything a kid wants to see. It has crazy adults, dinosaurs, aliens and a Bigfoot creature who's like the archetypal character to our protagonists. I might be the minority here, but I think that if you fend off the naysayers and not get caught up in high expectations I think kids and adults could enjoy this film.

"Land of the Lost" is a totally cheap Si-Fi comedy movie – and is meant only for the unrefined class of people!PROS of "Land of the Lost"The Dinosaur looks real (but it does not last for too long)CONS of "Land of the Lost"1. Very low-grade comedy 2. Low-grade dialogues 3. Repeated use of the F-word 4. The director is confused about the target audience (kids or the people living in lunatic asylums or is it for the ones living in slums) 5. Implausible events and situations (the actress understands the language of the apes which she had never learned) 6. No sense or logic in the plot

A fun film that needs a little time to start up (except for the talk show scene), but then it presents a nice mix of terrific (sci-fi) fantasy elements (with more than adequate effects, for instance, the 'Sleestaks' were nicely done, reminding me of 'Creature from the black lagoon' from 1954) and the familiar Ferrell sense of humour. And that works well for me.The deleted scenes were added as extra's on the DVD, in poor quality, though, unfortunately. Luckily still, because they should have been in the film, really. After these scenes (such as Ferrell daring a little black kid to a fight after a bit of 'yo mama' joking, Danny R. McBride offers his services for human trafficking over the Mexican-American border and McBride's little get-together with the ape man) were cut, the film apparently went from an R-rating to a PG-13 rating. O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave...7 out of 10.