Land Of The Lost

If you have a short attention span, you’ll love Land Of The Lost. This movie wastes no time jumping into the action, with silliness and hilarity close behind. Based on a 70’s children’s show, this version is so strange you can’t help asking yourself, “What were they smoking?” But then it was kind of like that in the seventies too.

Will Ferrell plays a scientist who is laughed out of the profession when his preposterous theories are ridiculed on National Television. He is reduced to teaching children in a science museum, when a young attractive student searches him out because she admires his work and believes in his theories. After a little coaxing, he recreates his trans-flux amplifier and is whisked away to give it a field trial. The result is a trip back in time where objects are ripped out of their element and thrown into a time-traveling junk yard. This is the point where you must leave all logic behind and just enjoy the ride.

Anna Friel is spunky as the admiring young scientist who convinces Dr. Marshall to resume his work. Danny McBride is hysterical as the unwitting cave guide who gets caught up in their adventure when the invention actually works. Jorma Taccone plays Cha-Kha the monkey boy who becomes their escort through this strange and bizarre land. Add in dinosaurs, lizard men, giant bugs, battling aliens and you’ve got one crazy movie. But don’t even bother trying to make sense out of it, check your brain at the door and just have fun. Like a series of skits strung together with a loose plot, this film is pure fun and you’ll leave the theater shaking your head, chuckling, and feeling much lighter then when you went in. And that in itself is worth the price of admission.

Rating: First Run Check your brain at the door and have fun