So, Kevin Smith predicted it, in 2001, Will Ferrell played Marshall Wilenholly in Jay and Silly Bobs' Stricken Backs, and 8 years later Ferrell pops up in TV adaptation Land of the Lost as Rick Marshall in a film that tries to do the Starsky and Hutch mickey take and yet loving homage to the show, but messes it up completely by losing the funny for CGI, jump scares, lots of unnecessary plotting and poor character development.
Rick Marshall and new assistant Holly, Anna Friel, go to Will, Danny McBride, and his crazy devil cave where they travel time and space to an odd land full of monkey men, Chaka played by the legend that is Jorma Taccone, dinosaurs who are smart, odd lizard men and a giant crab for no real reason.
It begins with a horror scene, then some relaxed improv, with Bobbe J'Thompson, the brilliant kid from Role Models, and slowly forgets this for lots of running, gross out gags with blood sucking bugs, sex jokes that aren't funny, except "Watch out you'll get wet, No I mean Holly" which the kids in the audience, mainly the entire limited audience, after all the ads and trailers were child friendly, didn't get. Add the moment where Ferrell says Eff you to Chaka and lots of cursing and some violence, comedic but boring, and it's stupid how they can put Coco Pops ads in front of it.
So, whilst the actors are solid, the music is brilliant, it's just forgotten that CGI is the anti-funny, like David Koepp said on the Ghost Town commentary, CGI stops jokes, it's true.
What a waste of time, avoid, like most films this year, avoid.
2/10
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