The almost forgotten world

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Movie
German title The almost forgotten world
Original title Land of the Lost
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Brad Silberling
script Chris Henchy
Dennis McNicholas
production Marty Krofft
Sid Krofft
Jimmy Miller
music Michael Giacchino
camera Dion Beebe
cut Peter Teschner
occupation

The Almost Forgotten World is an American adventure comedy directed by Brad Silberling in 2009 and based on the 1970s television series In Land of the Saurians .

action

The paleontologist Dr. Rick Marshall, his controversial book to his scientific theory on the relationship between quantum physics and paleontology in the NBC telecast Today could present, has a tachyon invented amplifier. With this one cannot jump back and forth in time, but jump in parallel. Together with the student Holly Cantrell, who has studied his theory, he makes his way to the place where she found a fossil with the imprint of a modern lighter.

At this point, Will Stanton operates a tourist trap called "The Devil's Canyon Mystery Cave". As a boat driver, he takes the two scientists with his rubber dinghy into the cave in which Marshall measured a particularly large portion of tachyons. When the scientist switches on his device, he triggers an earthquake that first pulls the three boat occupants into a waterfall and then catapults them into parallel time. Without the tachyon booster, they find themselves in another world in a desert where two primates want to murder a third. They save him, and after he introduces himself as Cha-Ka from the Pakuni tribe, the group is torn down again. Now they are in a tyrannosaurus feeding station . You can escape from the animal and discover the bodies of two soldiers in a cave. In the vicinity of the cave you will find bizarre artifacts from the earth.

The next morning, Marshall receives a telepathic call for help, which the group follows into the jungle. There you will find a prism-like obelisk . Inadvertently they wake up a group of lizard people who call themselves Sleestak. They flee into the obelisk and meet another lizard man named Enik who - unlike the others - wears a tunic . According to his own statements, he was exiled by the evil Zarn who wants to subjugate the earth with his followers. Enik can only prevent this if Marshall gets the tachyon amplifier back.

Cha-Ka leads the group to a salt desert, in which there are partly earthly objects and earth dwellers accidentally fall from the sky to be eaten by dinosaurs. Although the group succeeds in blasting the Allosaurus , who swallowed the tachyon amplifier, with the help of a catapult and a bottle of nitrous oxide , the amplifier is carried off by a pteranodon .

The next day they can with difficulty rescue the amplifier from the nest of the pteranodon on the top of a volcano. Marshall, Cha-Ka and Stanton celebrate their success in the pool of a motel , also located in the Salt Flats, while Holly repairs the amplifier. She uses the device to move away from her companions, who are now under the influence of drugs, and is captured by the Sleestak in the jungle. When Marshall, Cha-Ka and Stanton come to, they discover Holly has disappeared. While Marshall and Stanton search for Holly, Cha-Ka makes his way to Enik with the amplifier. Marshall and Stanton are able to free Holly, but when Cha-Kas and Enik arrive they find that the latter is not the friend he claims to be: It is Enik who wants to take control of the earth. The sudden appearance of the tyrannosaurus drives Enik to flight and forces Marshall to fight the dinosaur. In the fight with the dinosaur he wants to use his lighter, which falls to the ground and the fossil is created when the dinosaur is kicked.

At the same time, Holly and Stanton follow Enik. They can thwart his plans when Marshall comes to their aid on the back of the dinosaur. While Holly and Marshall return to Earth, Stanton stays with Cha-Ka and is allowed to discover that his tribe includes attractive, apparently hairless women.

A post-credit scene shows a sleestak hatching from a dinosaur egg that Marshall brought with him.

Reviews

“Adventure comedy with a few successful gags in which the charm of the elaborate setting and the slapstick talent of the main actor are used; most of the rest of the film is lost in fecal humor and a sluggish, uninspired plot. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Hanebuchene gag parade, which balances the wafer-thin story with speed and a series of crazy ideas."

- Cinema

"Spielberg student Brad Silberling (...) dives into a surreal fantasy cosmos and presents a not exactly logical, but quite funny story about a dumb scientist whose intelligence is repeatedly confronted with difficult tasks. The wild-futuristic prehistoric spectacle is less convincing because of the outrageous story than because of a multitude of funny and absurd gags. For such jokes, Will Ferrell is of course always the right person, even if a few situations (such as the intoxicating sequence) should have been even more hearty. "

- prism

publication

marketing

The first trailer for the film was shown as part of the 39th Super Bowl . Another trailer was evaluated exclusively by the Subway fast food chain . The entire original series was broadcast on the Syfy channel on Memorial Day and combined with interviews with the makers of the film.

evaluation

The film opened in US cinemas on June 5 and in German cinemas on October 1, 2009.

Awards

  • At the Teen Choice Awards 2009 Will Ferrell was nominated in the category "Actor Comedy".
  • In 2010 the film was nominated for a total of seven Golden Raspberries , including in the “Worst Film” category.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Almost Forgotten World . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 467 K).
  2. ↑ Age designation for The Almost Forgotten World . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ The Almost Forgotten World in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on December 23, 2009
  4. ^ Film review . Cinema . Retrieved December 23, 2009.
  5. ^ Film review . Prism . Retrieved December 23, 2009.

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