It is odd that Will Ferrell described LAND OF THE LOST on its opening night as JURASSIC PARK meets SOPHIE’S CHOICE.  The film is nothing like both films.  It seems that Ferrell and the filmmakers have no clue what their film is about or going to turn out like.

Overblown with special effects and old prehistoric cavemen film parodies, LAND OF THE LOST is basically Will Farrell escaping one hazard (or dinosaur) after another till his romance comes to fruit.  The story concerns a scientist who investigates the time warp phenomenon.  The film starts with a made-up talk show in which Dr. Rick Marshall (Will Farrell) is humiliated over his time travel research.  Be that as it may, he finds an earth portal and travels back to a land where past, present and future exist in a weird continuum.  Just as it sounds, the film takes on too much that it can chew.  It misses with most of its humour.  Comedic timing is awfully bad with LAND OF THE LOST landing as one of Farrell’s least funny outings.

As far as art design goes, the creatures form the T-Rex’s to the future aliens are as impressive as can be seen in any sci-fi film these days.  A few of the comedic set-ups are, literally, out of this world, but most fail to generate the laughs expected.  Ferrell’s sidekick, Danny McBride is annoying at most and his love interest, Anna Friel is a distraction at most.  Be prepared for a lot of Ferrell’s unfunny silliness (show tunes from A CHORUS LINE, private part and lots of toilet humour). 

The main villain as in NIGHT AT THE MUSEULM 2 is decked in a tunic.  As in both films, the advice is that one can never trust one who wears a tunic.  Maybe the saying should go that never trust a film to be good when the villain wears a tunic.