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Age by Age Review For: Land of the Lost
Land of the Lost
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Best For Tweens (10-12)
Rated PG
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Comedy | Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Paleontologist Dr. Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell) creates a machine that takes him to a parallel universe of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures.

Dinosaurs have always been some of children’s favorite characters--and so has Will Ferrell!--so the movie's sexist remarks and actions seem particularly out of place and offensive. Sure, tweens may find them funny, especially when a primitive ape-man continually grabs and holds on to a woman's breasts, but they're inappropriate for the young audience to whom the movie is being marketed. Consider bringing the family to another theater, and letting this movie get lost among the higher-quality summer blockbusters.
Baby (0-2)
No This movie is intended for older children.
Preschool (3-5)
No This movie is intended for older children.
Kids (6-9)
No This movie is intended for older children.
Tweens (10-12)
Although tweens (and younger kids) will enjoy much of the dinosaur action, it's not worth enduring lines the moviemakers could have--and should have--resisted, like when Marshall and another man enjoy touching the vibrating walls of a pyramid and agree that their female colleague "should sit on it."
--Lois Alter Mark, the Flicks for Kids Expert
Points For Parents
Movie Pluses

  • Encourages imagination
Movie Minuses

  • Suggestiveness, crudeness, and sexist behavior
  • Some profanity
  • Potty humor
  • Cartoonish violence
  • The men get high on a narcotic plant