LAND OF THE LOST
HEADLINE: ** Putrid, Scatological Sci Fi **
Title: LAND OF THE LOST
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -4
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VVV
Sex: SS
Nudity: NN
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: June 5, 2009
TIME: 93 minutes
STARRING: Will Farrell, Anna Friel, Danny McBride, and Jorma Taccone
DIRECTOR: Brad Silberling
PRODUCERS: Jimmy Miller and Sid & Marty Krofft
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Daniel Lupi, Julie Wixson Darmody, Adam McKay, Brad Silberling, and Ryan Kavanaugh
WRITER: Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas
BASED ON THE SATURDAY MORNING TV SERIES BY: Sid & Marty Krofft
DISTRIBUTOR:
CONTENT: (HHH, AbAb, HoHo, LLL, VVV, SS, NN, DDD, MM) Very strong materialistic, humanist worldview where all that matters is bodily pleasures with some overt blasphemous content mocking Jesus, and strong homosexual references played for vulgar laughs; 88 obscenities and eight profanities, plus man drinks urine, man pours urine over himself and man has animal feces all over himself; constant slapstick violence with a couple very bloody and very strong scenes, including being hit by amusement park dummies, being bitten by dinosaurs, being swallowed by dinosaur, being attacked by small dinosaurs and pterodactyls, ice cream man's arm is ripped off his body, zombie like spacemen attack, spacemen feel up girl while attacking her, human sacrifice twice played for a joke, blood sucker sucks blood and sprays blood all over, etc.; frequent sexual references, space creature keeps grabbing woman's breast, men express homosexual love for one another and lie in a homosexual position, man talks about standing under dinosaur's private parts, implied sex between two lizard men, man stays in land of the lost and meets several women who are naked with long hair covering their breasts and women start fondling him, children talk about crude sex, and reference to sodomy; a flash of upper female nudity, outline of male anatomy in underwear shown, upper male nudity, and naked women with long hair covering their bodies; marijuana use in school, children in school talk about marijuana use and heavy duty drug use using a narcotic liquid; and, lying, cheating, arrogance, pomposity, and deception.
GENRE: Comedy/Science Fiction
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman/CEO, General Electric
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Marc Shmuger, Chairman
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SUMMARY: LAND OF THE LOST is a very vulgar remake of what was a children's TV show, about a foul-mouthed, pompous scientist, his new assistant and a redneck survivalist, who accidentally get trapped in another dimension with dinosaurs, a caveman alien and a group of nasty, but slow-moving lizard men up to no good. Despite some very funny clean moments, LAND OF THE LOST is a rambling, abhorrent exercise in offensive, sexual, scatological, stoner jokes.
IN BRIEF:
LAND OF THE LOST is a vulgar remake of what was a children's TV show. It stars Will Farrell as Professor Rick Marshall, a foul-mouthed, pompous scientist who invents a space-time device to travel between dimensions. Marshall, his new assistant and a redneck survivalist are accidentally taken to the Land of the Lost. They befriend Chaka, a furry alien who looks like a caveman primate. A Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur constantly pursues them. Both Chaka and the dinosaur are smarter than they seem. They encounter an area with crystals, guarded by slow-moving alien zombies in the service of a mean alien who wants to conquer the universe. They also discover that the professor's machine is causing artifacts to come from our dimension into Chaka's.
Despite some very funny moments, LAND OF THE LOST is a rambling exercise in offensive, sexual, scatological, stoner jokes. Everything from pot to hard narcotics is extolled. Sex is a constant refrain for the jokes, including homosexuality. Finally, this abhorrent movie contains 88 obscenities and a blasphemous joke mocking Jesus. MOVIEGUIDE®'s recommendation is to avoid LAND OF THE LOST and see Pixar/Disney's UP or the original TV series instead.
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