Land of the Lost (2009)

On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures.

Director:

Brad Silberling

Writers:

Chris Henchy, Dennis McNicholas,

Stars:

Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, Danny McBride

1 win & 9 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Will Ferrell	...	Dr. Rick Marshall
Anna Friel	...	Holly Cantrell
Danny McBride	...	Will Stanton
Jorma Taccone	...	Chaka
John Boylan	...	Enik
Matt Lauer	...	Matt Lauer
Bobb'e J. Thompson	...	Tar Pits Kid
Sierra McCormick	...	Tar Pits Kid
Shannon Lemke	...	Tar Pits Kid
Stevie Wash Jr.	...	Tar Pits Kid (as Steven Wash Jr.)
Brian Huskey	...	Teacher
Kevin Buitrago	...	Teenager
Noah Crawford	...	Teenager
Jon Kent Ethridge	...	Teenager (as Jon Kent Ethridge II)
Logan Manus	...	Teenager

Storyline

Palaeontologist Rick Marshall takes Will and Holly into a new world of danger, dinosaurs and big bug-eyed lizard people while trying to find their way back home and, too, save the universe and in doing so saving his reputation. With the dinosaur with brains, brawn and personality and the adventure of scientific advancement and exotic beasts in a far away land, it all adds up to time traveling fun and frolics.

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Plot Keywords:

dinosaur | lizard | primate | liquid nitrogen | tour guide | 

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Taglines:

Right place. Wrong time.

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, and for language including a drug reference

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [France] Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 June 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

La tierra perdida

Filming Locations:

Dumont Dunes, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$100,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£642,553 (UK) (31 July 2009)

Gross:

£1,409,998 (UK) (7 August 2009)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In Land of the Lost Holly Marshall calls the T-Rex "Grumpy". In the 2009 version Holly Cantrell says that they should call the T-Rex "Grumpy".

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Goofs

When Dr. Marshall is being chased around by the T-Rex in the desert. At one point it picks him up by his backpack and rips it apart and destroys it. He doesn't have it for the rest of that part. Then when they are climbing the volcano, he has it again on his back.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Astronaut: Mission Control, come in. Mission Control, do you read?

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Crazy Credits

The early 1970's Universal logo is used in the opening credits.

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Connections

Features Play Misty for Me (1971)

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Soundtracks

"Goodies"
Written by Sean Garrett, Ciara (as Ciara Harris), La Marquis Jefferson,
Craig Love, Lil' Jon (as Jonathan H. Smith), Zachary Wallace, Petey Pablo
Performed by Ciara featuring Petey Pablo
Courtesy of La Face Records and The RCA/Jive Label Group, A Unit of Sony Music Entertainment
By Arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment

User Reviews

A very good sci-fi Comedy*

I cannot believe after watching this film that it is rated 5.5 or less, so I start reading the reviews and I find ratings of 1/10...seriously...why can't people give this film a realistic rating. OK if you thought the film was bad give it a low rating, but 1/10?? there are numbers in between 1 and 10. I thought Love Actually was one of the worst films I ever saw but I would give it at least a 3. All I'm asking for is abit of consistency take a look at another film I really hated - Crank high voltage 2 rated above 6 how are these scores accurate?? you're telling me that crank is funnier than this film...I can't accept this, so here I am I've signed up at IMDb because of the unfair ratings this film is getting.

Anyway about this film I thought it was kind of similar to hitchhikers guide to the galaxy but not really aimed towards kids both in my opinion were great films.

Key point to this rant**if you do not like sci-fi comedy don't watch this film** even more important if you disregard my last comment Do Not then go on IMDb and then think oh I don't like this film so I will vote it 1/10 because I didn't know there are any other numbers apart from 1 and 10.

I read another review about how this film had no plot...are plots key to comedies?? uh no. Also this person stated his kids found it boring, is this a kids film?? not really. One more thing there are quite a few saying this film was not very intelligent...have you watched crank 2?? if you expected to watch a film with an intelligent plot and intricate story lines watch death note this may satisfy thirst but then again it probably won't. Because how people can say this is for people with low IQ and then these people will go on watch things like crank 2, quantum of solice with require even less intelligence than this film.