GROUP THERAPY: Holly (Anna Friel) and Will (Danny McBride) discuss their viewpoints with Dr. Robert Marshall in Land of the Lost.
PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES
SEBRING, June 5, 2009 – We hate to belittle a film but… .
What’s a reviewer to do when the film boasts little?
Land of the Lost is a self reflection of the work by Director Brad Silberling and scriptwriters Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas. There is no moral to the story. In fact, there is no story. The plot – a ridiculed scientist is validated by his space-time machine – is a funny mirror twisting of the original idea by Marty and Sid Krofft and fails to do justice even to them. Add a somnambulent performance by Will Ferrell and you get a movie even my 12-year-old called “boring.”
Worst of all is the script, which heads nowhere and patches together characters without chemistry. Character development is nil, except for a moment of revelation by the “love interest” (and we use that loosely) played by Anna Friel. Only Danny McBride gets an props for a job partially well done.
Land of the Lost is ridiculous, not funny; hackneyed and predictable with the usual insertion of irrelevant profanity and raunchy visual gags. It is not for children younger than 13 and may be not even for those older. All the dinosaurs and visual effects in the world cannot save Land of the Lost.
Rated PG-13 for language, randy themes and some CGI violence.
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