'Land of the Lost has comedic scientific twist
Tilford Mansfield
Issue date: 6/15/09 Section: Entertainment
Past, present, and future meet in the surprisingly hilarious new film Land of the Lost. Beginning to end, the movie had an air of pure merriment.
The story was noticeably different for fans of the original television series. Instead of a family on rafting adventure getting sent to the world mysteriously, it turns out to be a string of events linked to an exploration of the unknown that catapults the cast through their extremely wondrous adventure.
Will Ferrell lit the screen with his usual fire. His character held a PhD, which was surprising, as he was able to carry on with his usual whimsy.
Danny McBride was excellent for his role and without his character there might not have been as many laughs with this movie. Anna Friel was magnificent; though she is less know in the United States, she is a very good actress who was perhaps inappropriately and excessively fondled in her role.
I must admit that the science fiction element in the story was quite clever; however, fiction it was. I had no expectation for any brilliant new scientific theory to come from this movie. What it did do was introduce a facet of the human mind, that peculiar question "what if?"
The aspect of this film I am most pleased with was the writer's willingness to 'play with things' a bit. Since the dimension the cast enters has the normal constraints of time, it was quite feasible that anything really could happen. I think some of the more sociological elements of the film were introduced, maybe unknowingly by the assembly, as a reminder that even in a remarkable, make-believe land people are still going to act like themselves: like humans.
On a scale of one to five, I would give this movie a 4. I found it hilarious and would recommend it to anyone. The ending was more hilarious than the beginning, aside from the deliberately introduced love-story.
The story was noticeably different for fans of the original television series. Instead of a family on rafting adventure getting sent to the world mysteriously, it turns out to be a string of events linked to an exploration of the unknown that catapults the cast through their extremely wondrous adventure.
Will Ferrell lit the screen with his usual fire. His character held a PhD, which was surprising, as he was able to carry on with his usual whimsy.
Danny McBride was excellent for his role and without his character there might not have been as many laughs with this movie. Anna Friel was magnificent; though she is less know in the United States, she is a very good actress who was perhaps inappropriately and excessively fondled in her role.
I must admit that the science fiction element in the story was quite clever; however, fiction it was. I had no expectation for any brilliant new scientific theory to come from this movie. What it did do was introduce a facet of the human mind, that peculiar question "what if?"
The aspect of this film I am most pleased with was the writer's willingness to 'play with things' a bit. Since the dimension the cast enters has the normal constraints of time, it was quite feasible that anything really could happen. I think some of the more sociological elements of the film were introduced, maybe unknowingly by the assembly, as a reminder that even in a remarkable, make-believe land people are still going to act like themselves: like humans.
On a scale of one to five, I would give this movie a 4. I found it hilarious and would recommend it to anyone. The ending was more hilarious than the beginning, aside from the deliberately introduced love-story.
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