Despite being based on a kids show, this is not really a kids' film. The dialog can be a bit adult at times! And Chaka seemed to spend an awful lot of his time groping Holly! I could try to describe the plot, but frankly it's too bizarre and defies my sad ability to describe it. Suffice to say it's about three people (two of which are total idiots) stuck in some bizarre land where time/space are all jumbled and they have to somehow make things right and get back home. In the process, you see lots of dinosaurs and strange creatures that make this film like taking a hit of LSD.

I need to point out that I never saw the TV show "Land of the Lost" as I was a bit too old to watch it--and I hated Sid & Marty Krofft's shows (though they DID produce this movie). And, when I heard that this movie was coming out, I wasn't thrilled as I didn't want to see a silly kids show on the big screen. However, the film makers instead chose to parody their show--making fun of it by making several of the credits just too dumb to believe--sort of like sticking Ricky Bobby and Kyle Naughton, Jr. in a position to save the universe! Often the really dumb jokes, dialog and situations made me laugh but the film was uneven as well. There were also quite a few scenes that fell very flat or were just rather gross and super-low brow (such as the urine scene). For Will Ferrell fans, this would all be very familiar territory but for others it will probably be rather stupid and nonsensical. Low-brow and dumb throughout..but for me, in a good way.

Overall a very stupid movie...that STILL made me laugh.

By the way, Danny McBride sure seemed to be doing a great imitation of John C. Reilly. His character was a lot like the ones Reilly played in the Will Ferrell movies "Talladega Nights" and "Step-Brothers"--really, really dumb and quite funny. I wonder if this part was originally intended for Reilly--it was that close.

Dig that Matt Lauer! He's so darn cool!

If some kids who grew up during the Seventies and remembered this fun children's show which never did get resolved on television were expecting a flashback to that show, than they were gravely disappointed in Land Of The Lost. I myself would have expected something along the lines of the Brady Bunch films.

For those who don't know the TV series involved a family named Marshall, widower father, teenage son, and adolescent daughter who while on a camping trip fell into a time vortex and into the Land Of The Lost. All kinds of living things inhabit this world, dinosaurs, aliens called Sleestax and various strange flora and fauna. At one point the father fell out of the Land Of The Lost and an uncle searching for his brother, niece, and nephew fell in. The Marshalls were still there as the series ended.

Instead of the wholesome Marshall family, what we get is crazy Will Ferrall as the scientist who has no family and seeing what he's about is probably never going to have one. Instead of children we have a graduate anthropology student in Anna Friel and would be groupie and instead of hunky teenage son we get a crazy survivalist type who owns a place with an underwater cave.

Anyway, Ferrall has invented some time travel device that plays show tunes (I kid you not) and the device gets lost during its operation. The rest of the film is the group stuck in the Land Of The Lost and searching for the time machine to get back and encountering some of the creatures that we remember from the TV series if not quite how we remember them.

A whole lot of stupid and rather gross gags get pulled off without the requisite laughs that should go with them. For those who remember the TV series fondly, beware.

Pompous palaeontologist Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell) makes himself a laughing stock in an interview with Matt Lauer. Three years later, he's approach by Holly Cantrell (Anna Friel) who has been following his research. They go an expedition to a mysterious cave which is run by Will Stanton (Danny McBride) as a roadside attraction. They get sucked into another world. They rescue Chaka who is about to be killed by other primitives. They eventually encounter the Sleestaks and escape to Enik the Altrusian. Enik explains that the evil Zarn is looking to take over the universe.

I've got a feeling that people either wanted the old kids TV show or got tired of Will Ferrell. That doesn't stop me from laughing at some really fun gags. Comedies are the easiest to judge and hardest to explain. I laughed at this ridiculous parody. Therefore I judge it to be funny. I can't intellectualize the reason why. It's stupid and funny.