LAND OF THE LOST(2009)
This movie is a parody of all the "lost" movies out
there. All in all, not bad.
From Amazon.com
How to make a big-screen version of Sid and Marty
Krofft's Seventies TV show? In this case, place the
thing in the meaty hands of Will Ferrell and give the
special effects a big upgrade. If you grew up with the
show, you will recall that Marshall, Will, and Holly fall
through a time warp into a land where dinosaurs roam
and all kind of weird things grow. In this version, Ferrell
plays a disgraced scientist, Anna Friel a brainy postgraduate,
and Danny McBride (Pineapple Express) the sleazy owner
of a desert tourist trap that happens to be home to the
time portal. This begins to suggest how this movie wants
to have it both ways: keep some of the original's kid appeal,
but raunch it up just enough for fans of Judd Apatow's movies.
The result is that nothing really works very well. There's no
momentum to the plot, the locations are monotonous, and
Ferrell and McBride are desperate in their attempts to
generate something out of nothing. Granted, they succeed
a few times--these guys are too funny to whiff completely-
-but the strain is visible. And although the effects, are
competent, the movie can't even get its fantasy rules
straight (why is the T. Rex sometimes ferocious and
sometimes indifferent?). Fans of the show will enjoy
hearing the cheesy theme song worked in (Ferrell
performs a zonked version) and seeing how the movie
updates the menacing Sleestaks. But on a basic level
Land of the Lost has no idea what it's doing, or what
it means to do. --Robert Horton