- I saw this because I only had to pay $6 for my ticket.
- I hate it when the only good jokes in a movie go right over the audience’s head. There were two (only two!) in this entire movie.
- When Dr. Marshall routinely dismissed the T-Rex as having a brain the size of a walnut and then the T-Rex left a gigantic, Mesozoic-sized walnut at the doorway of their cave, Marshall said “Sweet Gregor Mendel!” No one laughed.
- When Marshall tried to fist bump his new BFF, T-Rex, and said “I know it’s hard with your short vestigial limbs.” No one laughed. HOW DO YOU NOT LAUGH AT THAT? OMG. People. Come on. This is good science humour!
- Apparently this movie had a really terrible box office showing this weekend. I would say that perhaps they overestimated the public’s love for dinosaurs, since that was the main selling point in all the trailers and commercials, but I would argue that it’s impossible to overestimate anyone’s love for dinosaurs. Everyone loves them. The only reason a movie like this exists is because people are hungry to see dinosaurs on screen as often as possible. How is it no one is seeing this? It can’t possibly be because this looks stupid; if I recall correctly, Angels and Demons topped the box office a few short weeks ago, so obviously this movie’s box office failure cannot be tied to stupidity in concept and execution.
- Speaking of dinosaurs, obviously they were the only reason to see this movie. I’ve been burned before by movies that feature dinosaurs heavily in the trailer but have maybe one scene with them in the actual movie (e.g. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which I’m pretty glad I only saw on TV), but this had lots of dinos from start to finish.
- T-Rex was big and brash and wonderful. It was mildly amusing when he got the laser pointer stuck in his teeth. There’s a lot of stupid humour in this movie, but I think the entire audience could agree with Will when he said that Marshall riding the T-Rex and then sliding down his tail Fred Flintstone-style was the greatest thing he had ever seen. Because yeah, if you saw that in real life? You could die a happy person. This is one of these base reactions shared by all humans.
- I think Compsognathus is the default tiny obnoxious pack dinosaur that writers include to annoy the audience.
- The pack of raptors that destroyed the ice cream truck was AWESOME.
- I think the problem with remakes of these campy 1960s TV shows is that they CGI the hell out of them and employ creature costumers who actually put effort into creating life like lizard skin, etc. The enjoyment of these 1960s shows comes specifically from the extremely lo-fi production values; when you remove that, you just get a really phenomenally stupid movie. Like this.
- Why on earth was Leonard Nimoy the voice of The Zarn?
- I highly enjoyed the animation in the closing credits. The movie may have been more interesting if it had been done entirely in that style. I think I say that a lot about end credits that are better than the movies they’re created for.
- I’m clearly not the target audience of this movie, dinosaurs aside. That said, I have no idea who this is geared towards because it’s rated PG in Ontario and yet Will Ferrell actually said “Fuck you!” to one character at one point (this in addition to a variety of other lesser profanities throughout the movie), which I didn’t think you could do in a PG movie. It’s rated PG-13 in the States, but swearing aside you’d think this was geared at eight year-old boys.
- This would have been better if it was only 88 minutes long.
Land of the Lost
As usual, dinosaurs > than everything else.
IMDB Plot Synopsis On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall (Ferrell) is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant (Friel) and a redneck survivalist (McBride). In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka (Taccone), their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures. Can they all make it back to our world alive, and if so: Will Dr. Marshall can go from zero to hero with his discoveries?