Land of the Lost (film)
Land of the Lost is the motion picture version of the 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.
Tropes used in Land of the Lost (film) include:
- Action Dress Rip: Holly, after they arrive in the jungle, rips her pant legs off and turns them into shortshorts. See Ms. Fanservice.
- Adaptational Villainy
- Enik in the show, while a bit of a jerk, was one of the Marshalls' allies. The same can't be said for his incarnation in the movie.
- Inverted in the case of the Zarn, who is a good guy in the movie and was murdered by Enik while giving a warning against him.
- Aliens and Monsters: The Sleestak.
- Aliens Speaking English: Enik
- Alien Sky: The Land has three moons.
- Alternate Universe
- Another Dimension
- Applied Phlebotinum
- Artistic License: Biology: How Marshall escapes after being eaten by Grumpy.
- Better Than a Bare Bulb: The movie has a lot of Lampshade Hanging, played for laughs.
- Big Damn Hero: Marshall and Grumpy.
- Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: The females of Cha-ka's race are Nubile Savages.
- Book Ends: Marshall's confrontational Today Show appearances with interviewer Matt Lauer.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Rick Marshall is a serious hardcase, though all three main characters qualify.
- Comedic Sociopathy: 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.
- Dressing as the Enemy: done by Marshall and Will with molted Sleestak skins. It's not as Squicky as it sounds, though.
- Everything's Better with Dinosaurs
- Godiva Hair: Cha-ka's wives.
- Green Rocks: The light crystals.
- I Choose to Stay: Will.
- It Can Think: Grumpy doesn't take well to 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 camaraderie is when they're stoned out of their minds.
- Just Eat Him: Grumpy and Marshall.
- Lost World
- Mushroom Samba: The narcotic fruits.
- Newscaster Cameo: Matt Lauer interviews Rick on Today.
- Non-Human Sidekick: Cha-ka
- Only Sane Man: Holly to an extent, though she appears at times to not utilze the sense she has been bestowed with.
- Ontological Mystery
- People in Rubber Suits
- Plot Hole: 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?
- Power Crystal
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent
- Saharan Shipwreck
- Take That: "Matt Lauer can suck it!"
- Tempting Fate: Dr. Marshall does it so often that it's lampshaded.
- Too Dumb to Live: All the protagonists.
- Super-Persistent Predator: 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.
- Trapped in Another World
- Tyrannosaurus Rex
- Urine Trouble