Land of the Lost Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle | Amy BinacolliAdd Critic to Favorites

The result is eight times as strange and exponentially more potty-mouthed than the original series.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Betsy SharkeyAdd Critic to Favorites

Like its characters, the film keeps getting lost too, stumbling as it struggles to keep kids and adults from squirming in their seats.Read the full review

Variety | Brian LowryAdd Critic to Favorites

The result is a movie with an exceedingly narrow target audience that should test Will Ferrell's appeal among boys maybe ages 12-14 -- about the only demo likely able to endure this laborious mess.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

It's hard to know just who the intended audience is: The movie is too surreal and bawdy for young kids and too silly for anyone older than 25.Read the full review

Slate | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

Land of the Lost is an enjoyable regression to Saturday mornings gone by, as junky and sweet as a strawberry Pop-Tart.Read the full review

Washington Post | Hank StueverAdd Critic to Favorites

It's cheap-looking (dinosaurs and other beasts here look like CGI loaners from Spielberg), deeply mediocre and predictable.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

A turd of T-Rex proportions, Land of the Lost makes one remember last summer's "Speed Racer" fondly.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

This dramatically, thematically and artistically bankrupt comic fantasy cost something in the neighborhood of $100 million to make and isn't worth the celluloid it's printed on.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith PhippsAdd Critic to Favorites

It doesn't help that neither Ferrell nor McBride bring their best material, with McBride offering yet another variation on an angry redneck, and Ferrell falling back on Ron Burgundy-like bluster and nonsense exclamations.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

Lame sketch comedy, an uninspired performance from Will Ferrell and an overall failure of the imagination turn Brad Silberling's Land of the Lost into a lethargic meander through a wilderness of misfiring gags.Read the full review

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