History Film / LandOfTheLost

%%* [[spoiler:IChooseToStay: Will]]

'''''Land of the Lost''''' is the [[TheFilmOfTheSeries motion picture version]] of the [[Series/LandOfTheLost NBC series of the same name]], released in the summer of 2009, featuring Will Ferrell.

* AliensAndMonsters: The Sleestak.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Enik

* AlternateUniverse
* AnotherDimension
* AppliedPhlebotinum

* BigDamnHero: Marshall and Grumpy.

* CreativeClosingCredits

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs
* GodivaHair: [[spoiler:Cha-ka's wives.]]
* GreenRocks: The light crystals.
* [[spoiler:IChooseToStay: Will]]

* JustEatHim: Grumpy and Marshall.
* LostWorld
* MushroomSamba: The narcotic fruits.

* NonHumanSidekick: Cha-ka

* OntologicalMystery
* PeopleInRubberSuits

* PowerCrystal

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent
* SaharanShipwreck

* TooDumbToLive: All the protagonists.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld
* TyrannosaurusRex
* UrineTrouble

* ActionDressRip: Holly, after they arrive in the jungle, rips her pant legs off and turns them into shortshorts. See MsFanservice.

The story focuses on Rick Marshall, a somewhat pompous paleontologist whose career was waylaid after a disastrous TV interview where his theories of time warps were ridiculed, to which he now works as a lowly job at a Tar Pit tourist attraction. However, he's approached by a college student, Holly Cantrell, who believes his theories could be right after showing him proof via a fossil of a cigarette lighter, and a crystal that gives off tachyon energy. After building an amplifier for it, they head for a cave that gives off the same energy. Joined by Will Stanton, the gift shop owner where the cave is located, the three venture in and find a time warp where they fall in. Winding up in the alternate world where objects of various cultures and periods litter the land and populated by primate-like beings (such as their friend, Cha-ka), dinosaurs and lizard people.

The story focuses on Rick Marshall, a somewhat pompous paleontologist whose career was waylaid after a disastrous TV interview where his theories of time warps were ridiculed, to which he now works as a lowly job at a Tar Pit tourist attraction. However, he's approached by a college student, Holly Cantrell, who believes his theories could be right after showing him proof via a fossil of a cigarette lighter, and a crystal that gives off tachyon energy. After building an amplifier for it, they head for a cave that gives off the same energy. Joined by Will Stanton, the gift shop owner where the cave is located, the three venture in and find a time warp where they fall in. Winding up in the alternate world where objects of various cultures and periods litter the land and creatures, such as a primate-like being they dubbed Cha-ka, dinosaurs and lizard like people populate the land.

* ComedicSociopathy: Some moments of in the movie rely on this.When an ice-cream vendor end up on The Land and is attacked by dromaeosaurs, our heroes just watch (and film), not showing the slightest bit of empathy. Likewise, when Rick is drained of blood by a giant mosquito, his companions just stare, never making a move to help him.

The story focuses on Rick Marshall, a somewhat pompous paleontologist whose career was waylaid after a disastrous TV interview where his theories of time warps were ridiculed, to which he now works as a lowly job at a Tar Pit tourist attraction. However, he's approached by a college student, Holly Cantrell, who believes his theories could be right after showing him proof via a fossil with a cigerette in it and a crystal that gives off tychon energy. After building an amplifier for it, they head for a cave that gives off the same energy. Joined by Will Stanton, the gift shop owner where the cave is located, the three venture in and find a time warp where they fall in. Winding up in the alternate world where objects of various cultures litter the land and creatures, such as a prime-mate like being they dubbed Cha-ka, dinosaurs and lizard like people populate the land.

The story focuses on Rick Marshall, a somewhat pompous paleontologist whose career was waylaid after a disastrous TV interview where his theories of time warps were ridiculed, to which he now works as a lowly job at a Tar Pit tourist attraction. However, he's approached by a college student, Holly Cantrell, who believes his theories could be right after showing him proof via a fossil with a cigerette in it a a crystal that gives off tychon energy. After building an amplifier for it, they head for a cave that gives off the same energy. Joined by Will Stanton, the gift shop owner where the cave is located, the three venture in and find a time warp where they fall in. Winding up in the alternate world where objects of various cultures litter the land and creatures, such as a prime-mate like being they dubbed Cha-ka, dinosaurs and lizard like people populate the land.

'''''Land of the Lost''''' is the [[TheFilmOfTheSeries motion picture version]] of the [[Series/LandOfTheLost NBC series of the same name]], released in the summer of 2009, featuring Will Ferrell. The film is more comedic and slapsticky than the series, but also includes drug-use sequences and plenty of sexual humor, making the marketing campaign's partial targeting of children highly confusing. It's more a parody (described as such by Ferrell himself) than actually bearing any relation to the series.

* PlotHole: It's hard to believe that some of the things that obviously went missing from the present weren't missed by anyone. Also, how did so many things go missing without a tachyon amplifier, even assuming the spot had unusually high tachyon levels, if the main characters only got transported to the same spot because they had one?

* NewscasterCameo: Matt Lauer interviews Rick on ''{{Today}}''.

* OnlySaneMan: Holly to an extent, though she appears at times to not utilze the sense she has been bestowed with.

* ComedicSociopathy: Some moments of "humor" in the movie rely on this (making them not funny at all). Like when an ice-cream vendor end up on The Land and is attacked by dromaeosaurs, the "heroes" just watch (and film), not showing the slightest bit of empathy. Likewise, when Rick is drained of blood by a giant mosquito, his companions just stare, never making a move to help him.

* BizarreSexualDimorphism: [[spoiler:The females of Cha-ka's race are [[NubileSavage Nubile Savages]].]]
* BookEnds: Marshall's confrontational Today Show appearances with interviewer Matt Lauer.

* [[DressingAsTheEnemy Dressed as the Enemy]]: Done by Marshall and Will with ''molted Sleestak skins.'' It's not as {{Squick}}y as it sounds, though.

* [[spoiler:IChooseToStay: Will.]]

--> '''Stanton''': Yep, this is definitely between him and you...

--> '''Stanton''': He's looking at you.
--> '''Marshall''': He's looking at all of us!
--> '''Stanton''': No... he's looking at ''[[ItsPersonal you!]]''

** In the case of the mosquito, the others seemed to be too schocked/squicked-out to act. In the case of the icecream vendor being attacked by a pack of raptors - really, what ''could'' they have done?
* [[DressingAsTheEnemy Dressed As The Enemy]]: done by Marshall and Will with ''molted Sleestak skins.'' It's not as {{Squick}}y as it sounds, though.

* ItCanThink: Grumpy doesn't take well to having his brain compared to a walnut.

* SuperPersistentPredator: Grumpy the ''T. rex''. Very slightly justified in that Marshall dumped urine of an herbivorous dinosaur on himself, thinking it would camouflage him. Doesn't explain why the ''T. rex'' was chasing them so much earlier in the movie, though. That was just... spite.

* ComedicSociopathy: Some moments of "humor" in the movie rely on this (making them not funny at all). Like when an ice-cream vendor end up on The Land and is attacked by carnosaurs, the "heroes" just watch (and film), not showing the slightest bit of empathy. Likewise, when Rick is drained of blood by a giant mosquito, his companions just stare, never making a move to help him.

* BizarreSexualDimorphism: [[spoiler:The females of Cha-ka's race are NubileSavages.]]

* DressedAsTheEnemy: done by Marshall and Will with ''molted Sleestak skins.'' It's not as {{Squick}}y as it sounds, though.

* {{Jerkass}}: Rick Marshall -- not that his companions are much better. The only time they show any kind of camaradery is when they're stoned out of their minds.

* NewscasterCameo: Matt Lauer interviews Rick on ''Today''.

* ItCanThink: Grumpy doesn't take well having his brain compared to a walnut.
* {{Jerkass}}: Rick Marshall -- not that his companions are much better. The only time they show any kind of camaradery is when stoned out of their minds.

* TemptingFate: Dr. Marshall does it so often that it is lampshaded.

* Cloudcuckoolander: Rick Marshall is a serious hardcase, though all three main characters qualify.