Dear sweet baby Jesus, in your swaddling clothes laying in the manger with your tiny little hands and feet... Sweet tiny baby Jesus, please let Will Ferrell keep making hilarious movies. Thank you.

I like Will Ferrell. Perhaps I even love him. He was a good sport when I worked a TV show where he was a guest considering the crap we threw at him (not literally, but I'm sure that probably did cross someone's mind at the show!), so that endeared him to me.

I did see Semi-Pro (via Netflix) and thought it was amusing, but not hilarious like Anchorman or others. I don't know that I'll see "Land of the Lost" in theatres, but I'll probably Netflix it. Like Adam Sandler, there are certain movies of Ferrell's that I love and ones that I don't care about as much, but they all pretty much make me laugh. Does that make me a bad person? Stupid? Low-brow? Meh. It's funny and I think we need all the funny we can get.

Speaking as someone who grew up watching the series - no, I wasn't looking for an action-adventure remake. Frankly I wasn't looking for it to be remade at all!

That way the show could live in my memory, and I could travel on in blissful ignorance of how not scary Grumpy and the Sleestacks really were.

He was a MAN he had a beard!

Okay, I saw it last night. I was a fan of the original show, although I was five when I watched the show and the cheesy low budget claymation TRex scared the hell out of me as a child.

So yeah, the movie was a little weird, but so was the TV show. I didn't go in with high expectations. A few scenes I felt went on too long (the bloodsucking bug and the dinosaur urine scene especially. ) However, it had some laughs. I was really in the mood for a stupid/funny movie last night, and this one fit the bill.

Will Ferrell is AWESOME. He is one of the funniest men of his generation, and people who don't like him are certainly entitled to that, but I don't understand this business where people who hate Will Ferrell pay to see Will Ferrell movies and then come out and complain some more about how much they hate Will Ferrell. This is why I say "no thanks" when people ask me to go see a Cameron Diaz flick - because the logic centres in my brain are operational.

Haven't seen the movie yet, but but can't wait - thanks for the review Zach! :)

I saw the movie last night and really enjoyed it. My memories of the TV show were hazy, (although by some extraordinary memory savant trick I can still remember the words to the opening titles) and I think that will be the case for most of the target audience - the other reviewers seem to only have vague childhood memories of the show. So I thought it was very well done that the movie built on the few things that stick out from the show - the T-rex, the sleestaks (man, they creeped me out) and, again, the opening song with the banjo accompaniment. As for Will Ferrell, my opinion of him has been troughing and cresting the waves these last few years but after the genius of Stepbrothers, I was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt and he did not disappoint - his final confrontation with Matt Lauer had me giggling like a loon.

How about we all agree that that some people like it and some people don't? Is there a mandate that everybody has to like 100% of any given movie? The Land of the Lost movie was clearly intended to be a contemporary comedy rather than a remake of the TV series. A remake (IMHO) should take the same story and use modern technology to provide the 'real' look that was unattainable before. Sure, there should be some new material, but why bother calling it a remake if the only thing kept is a name? (Josie and the Pussycats, GI Joe).

I would rather have seen a serious sci-fi approach that explored the mystery of the pylons. The addition of a tour guide would have been fine, but leave the kids as kids. Family relationships provide opportunity for multi-layered drama.

I do not enjoy the type of comedy that Will Ferrell employs, but I understand that others do, and that's fine. I don't have a problem with a comedy remake of an old TV series. But I am disappointed that I won't get to see the Land of the Lost that I had hoped for.

Hmmm -- I wonder what would happen if two versions of a remake were made - a serious one and a funny one? (Guess I gotta find a job that'll make me a multi-millionaire so I can do that.)