Review – Land of the Lost

When I was a kid I liked the old Krofft series upon which this was based. Thus I was extra disappointed by the dreadfulness of the movie version. Will Ferrell follows the infamous SNL tradition of running jokes completely into the ground, only here he adds an extra layer of offensiveness. For example, he does a string of gags that involve drenching himself in dinosaur urine, a scene that felt like it went on for at least 20 minutes. That kind of thing might be acceptable – or at least easily avoided – if he reserved it for movies about frat boys on drinking binges. But in a movie based on a children’s TV show? This is just stupid and disgusting beyond any excuse. Wish I’d skipped it.