The sets and CG creatures have a kind of what-the-hell weirdness and tactility that successful recreates the show’s aesthetic on a bigger budget, while Ferrell and McBride still have room to goof around.

| Apr 14, 2025

Plenty of computer-generated dinosaurs and wondrous locales make up the scenery, but the movie lacks adventure and humor, the only two selling points this material has going for it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 4, 2023

It doesn't help that everyone easily outruns the T-Rex, language barriers are introduced but practically ignored, and every dilemma or antagonist presents zero real threat.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 29, 2020

Falls short of its comic potential.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

More jokes fall flat than actually work, but the complete strangeness of it all adds a level of charm to it that it might not otherwise have had.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Part of the fun in this flick is watching Ferrell turn science fiction stereotypes of the intrepid explorer upside down.

| May 23, 2018

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: D- | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

[A] gigantic chunk of scat.

| Nov 15, 2011

Danny McBride and Will Ferrell make it worth a trip to Land of the Lost.

| Aug 15, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Who is this movie being made for in the first place?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 4, 2011

By stringing together a bunch of campy retro set-ups and witty improvs, Land of the Lost manages to be a watchable comedy with plenty of laughs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2011

Land of the Lost is a terrible family film - let's just get that out there - but it is certain to live on as a staple of bleary-eyed uni students' movie nights; sandwiched in-between repeat viewings of The Wall.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 27, 2010

Ladies and gentlemen- this is it. This is the moment where Will Ferrell's shtick (already wearing thin after his last couple of films) officially got old.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jul 6, 2010

Better than "Bewitched," if only for its straightforwardness. Then again, even Nora Ephron didn't turn Will Ferrell into a colonoscopic agent for a dinosaur. Depending on if you like him, that may be a comic equivalent to the Berlin Wall's collapse.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 3, 2009