Trailer Review: Land of the Lost

Posted by Paul Clark


Last week, the Screengrab brain trust predicted that this big-screen remake of the cheeseball TV series would be summer’s biggest flops. Based on this trailer, it’s not hard to see why. Frankly, for a movie that allegedly cost more than $100 million to produce, this looks really cheap, with second-rate special effects like the T-Rex that menaces star Will Ferrell at the end. Yes, I know that the original series wasn’t exactly a paragon of cutting-edge technology, but if Universal and director Brad Silberling wanted to pay tribute to the Krofft brothers’ rinky-tink effects, they should have gone all out instead of simply turning it into cheap CGI. Plus there’s the presence of Ferrell, whose sense of quality control has never been all that great, trying to lend some marquee value to a movie that’s half camp, half nostalgia piece- never the most bankable of hybrids. Ferrell can be very funny given the chance, but here it looks like he’s just flailing around, reining it in to get the PG-13. Worse yet, Danny McBride barely says anything at all in the trailer, which is never a good sign. Everything about this trailer, down to the title font (which comes straight from the Fast and Furious tetralogy, attests to how shabby and cut-rate this movie will almost certainly be.


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