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“Land of the Lost” is a truly outlandish film. It’s not necessarily an insult because some of its earlier critics regard it as a hanging offense (as Peter Keough of the Boston Phoenix put it, “a pot of ersatz dinosaur piss). “Land of the Lost” sparks intense loathing, which, in the case of a certain type of movie, is a good thing. While almost everyone else seems to hate it, I do, at a whisper of, admit, moderate admiration.
This film features an utterly ridiculous concept and features a number of cheerfully fake landscapes which can be altered by the director of art. What gives sense to a primal marsh that can be reached by foot from an infinite wasteland? Or why is it that there is a motel sign from another world with the entire motel missing except for the water-filled pool? It is like saying that primitive men have lived alongside dinosaurs the way they do in Alley Oop and Flintstones.
Will Ferrell performs as Dr. Rick Marshall, a scientist who expresses with Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today about how he came up with a solution to the energy crisis by bringing oil and gas from a parallel universe. Informs him that respectable scientists think he is mentally challenged. Like who? “Stephen Hawking” Lauer replies. Rick goes nuclear, “You told me you wouldn’t say that!”
Indeed Marshall does have a working machine that can send him into those universes and is motivated to try it out by the one scientist in the world who agrees with him, Holly Cantrell (Anna Friel) who while had thrown out of Cambridge had claimed to agree with him.
For reasons too complex to explain, they are helped on their quest by a cave tour guide and part-time fireworks salesman, Will (Danny McBride). His tour includes a bizarre cave that contains a river flowing straight into an artificial mountain which sucks them into a vortex and dumps them into The Land of the Lost.
In this strange new world, they befriend Chaka (Jorma Taccone), a Missing Link tribe member who provides convincing proof that orthodontists had not yet achieved straightening teeth in his homeland. Holly is lucky enough to understand him. Yes, understand him which means that the movie is prepared to get to the next scene.
There are numerous jokes about dinosaurs’ feces, dinosaurs’ urine, dinosaurs’ intelligence, babies’ dinosaurs, and their hurt feelings. Plus, blood-thirsty bugs, man-eating trees, and the music from “A Chorus Line.” The way of using the songs is absolutely ridiculous, of course, which is the exact reason I enjoyed it.
The movie is based on the 1974 television series that shares the same producers, Sid and Marty Krofft. While the show and the movie are not counterparts, the one aspect they do share is their locations, props, and special effects. The dinosaurs are clearly fake as they attempt to do harm to the humans in the movie, and their presence can only be understood through the lens of how they are not really there. The actors also do not bother to look fearful, astounded, or even a bit concerned, let alone make an attempt to do so. Some might think that is a flaw. However, in my view, that seems to be a more conscious decision, which I gladly say that I appreciate.
To watch a goofy movie like this one, one must be in a specific mood. I think I was in one of those moods. Marshall Fine claims that it is more terrible than ‘Night at the Museum’, but after watching that movie too, I can assure you, this is no ‘Night at the Museum.’
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