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DVD Review - Land of the Lost  |
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Growing up, some of my favorite Saturday morning shows revolved around the creations of Sid and Marty Kroft. I grew up on H.R. Puffnstuff, Lidsville, and even honed my burgeoning heterosexuality on those rare episodes of Electrawoman and Dynagirl. Our childhood innocence of the 70’s combined with the cheesiest “state of the art” special effects also brought us another popular Saturday morning show.
Land of Lost was wonderful at the time of Watergate. What we didn’t know at the time was that it was so bad it was good. The shows mixture of new age, post-1960’s science fiction and hippie mentality tried to give us youngsters a message. Throw in a couple of dinosaurs for good measure and we had some pretty awesome television considering we only had four to five actual stations in any market.
Fast forward to 2009. To capitalize on the aging Generation X-ers fondness for nostalgia, comes the motion picture of the same name, Land of the Lost. Whereas, the original somehow transcended its shortcomings, the new version is simply not a good movie. In fact, it is a very bad movie.
Painfully, the major reason this release doesn’t work is the star which the film is a vehicle for in the first place. Will Ferrell will more than likely be remembered for his post-Saturday Night Live career as the premier comedic slapstick actor of his generation. Therein lies the rub. Land of the Lost was never a comedy and trying to fit it into that mold fails miserably.
The box says that Ferrell portrays scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, but in fact the audience knows that’s not the truth. In his past half dozen or so films, Ferrell merely plays Will Ferrell in every film. The film could have easily been called Land of the kicking elfs school Lost and no one would be better or worse off.
Land of the Lost is lost from the start and never takes a right turn earning a one out of five dinosaurs.
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