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Ferrell fills screen with one liner ‘toilet humour’

The cast of the movie The Land of the Lost.

If the box office numbers for Will Ferrell’s latest movie are any sign, you may want to avoid this one. 

Based on a 1970s Saturday morning cartoon show, The Land of the Lost stars Will Ferrell as a washed up scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, who through some silly quantum time warp devices, winds up in a lost land filled with primates, giant mosquitoes, Sleestaks (Half-lizard, half-human) and a grumpy T-Rex, as well as iconic landmarks such as the Golden Gate bridge and the Titanic surrounded by a dessert. 

Joining Dr. Rick Marshall through a journey to return back to the normal world is a straight-up stereotype redneck named Will (Danny McBride), a seemly crack-smart research assistant (more on that later) named Holly (Anna Friel), and a primate called Chaka. 

Here’s the basic premise, scene-by-scene Will Ferrell and co. encounter some poorly crafted CG creature, freak out, then run from it, all in the midst of a barrage of offensive toilet humor that can only be amusing to young adolescents and hardcore Will Ferrell fans.

So if drinking T-Rex urine or getting high off of ancient narcoleptics, or jokes that degrade women to no end such as remarks about getting “wet” or sitting on a vibrating crystal sound funny to you then prepare for that and lot more tasteless vulgar jokes.

Yes this movie definitely is not intended for kids even though the plot may seem like it is (especially if you don’t want your kids to see brief flashes of almost near-nudity in a PG rated film).

There is no plot, and if you try to make sense of it all you will only get baffled with the next scene, because literally there is no cohesive connection, it’s just one joke to the next. 

The only consistent plot device is the overly unrealistic T-Rex that chases Will Ferrell and crew because of some remark Ferrell’s character made about its intelligence. Sadly, by the end of the movie the one-on-one battle with the dino and Ferrell completely destroys any merit it once had with some of the worst action scenes ever. 

The movie tries too hard to be funny. It’s full of long scenes where McBride or Ferrell just go on and on cracking one-liners and ‘can they get away with saying that’ jokes until one of them finally jabs at your funny bone. 

And if there’s anything positive in this movie then it’s the occasional line from Ferrell and McBride that is indeed quite hilarious (again, not your traditional funny; stupid funny).

The worst part of this movie has to be the aforementioned only female character. 

You’re led to believe she knows all the answers to the mysteries of this land of the lost, and that she can even speak and understand the primate Chaka, but then right in the next scene she is clueless as to what he is saying; where’s the consistency? 

Add in a scene where she tears part of her clothes off to give the whole sexy adventurous outdoorswomen look, along with the constant sexual connotations the other characters make towards her and it sets the whole women’s movement back an era.

Lastly, you’d expect for a movie in this day and age to have decent special effect and believable CGI, but that’s not the case. 

Maybe it was intentional because the movie is based off of an old TV show.

The Land of the Lost is riddled with one-dimensional characters, a plot that makes no sense, grossly offensive toilet humor, and over-the-top fanatics from Will Ferrell. I would only recommend seeing this movie if you’re a true die-hard Ferrell nut, otherwise stay away and save your brain cells. 

1.5 Stars

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