Sunday, June 14, 2009

Land of the Lost

Slow start then the fun and slapstick comes. No need to think since it is a Will Farrell movie, nothing serious but just be there to laugh. Will is Dr Rick Marshall who believes in time warps but of course no one believed him, after his attempt to assault host Matt on his TV show, he was reduced to teaching in a museums where children ask him whether dinosaurs has boobs.

Then came Anna Friel as Holly, a grad who totally believed his theory and urged him to finish his tachyon amplifier which will help to open up a vortex like thingie. Anyway, he did finished it. And together they went to some out of no where desserted theme park to try it out in a cave. Danny Mcbribe as Will was their guide as they boat through the cave, then it happened, sucked through and into the land of the lost. Here it starts its crude humour, sexual innuendoes and slapsticks. Will throughout the movie, became his crap dialogue partner, to some good effect.

Appearing in a dessert, they saved Chakkar, a primate who was being attacked by other primates. As Holly tried to explain to it, in primate language, it sort of understand. The part where she put her hands on her chest and say "Holly" ... well Chakkar replicated the action, but of course his hand on her chest. As they wandered through land, they got chase by T Rex which they managed to escape to a cave.

They seem safe till Rick commented T Rex brain is smaller than a walnut. Rex was pissed and targetting him throughout the movie. Then a creature Enik, tried to tell Rick that some creature Zarn and his Sleestak are taking over the universe, and he need the tachyon amplifier to stop him. Rick believed him and continue to search for the device which he lost in the vortex. To protect himself and out of stupidity sake, he explain to Will and Holly, he had to pour dinosaur urine all over himself, this scene was quite disgusting but funny.

Chakkar offered his help to bring them to an area where little dino feesds on a ice cream truck, of course the ice cream man as well. Then T Rex appeared, worse an Allosaurus also. Somehow he outsmart it and blew it into pieces as she swallowed a nitrogen tank. Out it came, tachyon amplifier but a flying Pteranodon took it. Rick became down and out, Holly and the rest left him. Rick thought through and re-join them as he tried to sing a apologetic tune, unknowingly he was bitten by a giant mosquito which left him with a gigantic swollen bump on his back, the whole scene was really funny.

Then they went to the Pteranodon nest and Rick successfully got the amplifier. They went back to the feeding area where there is a motel. As Rick, Will and Chakkar were drunk, Holly wondered with the amplifer and was caught by Enik. They woke up and search for her, into the Sleestak cave, saw 2 of them trying to makeout, somehow have to have this scene. He did saved Holly but then Rex came, as he tried to beat it but to no avail, ending up pole vaulting into his mouth.

Holly and rest thought he was dead but he returned with him sitting on Rex back, terrorizing the Sleestak. They became good friends after it pooed him out which made its intestinal problem better. Then they stopped Enik but Will chose to stay which sseemingly a wise choice as he met the female primates which Chakkar describe as "ugly". Truth was because they are too human like. but simply beauty for Will. 7/10

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