Welcome To Movie Recall. In Today's video, we will be going through the 2009 Comedy Adventure
film : “Land of the Lost”.
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In the opening scene of the movie, we witness a man in a spacesuit lost in a dark, dank,
swampy terrain. He begins to panic and runs through the water and the trees that surround
him. He stumbles and falls over with a splash. As he gets up, we see a dinosaur approaching
him, in the reflection of his visor. in the next scene we see a TV talk show, on
which paleontologist Rick Marshall is being interviewed by the host Matt Lauer. He is
attempting to promote his new book. In this he proclaims it is possible for mankind to
hop across dimensions into other worlds. Worlds in which all of the timelines in ours are
combined. The host is naturally cynical. He then further angers the scientist by refusing
to allow him to smoke a pipe on set. As a result, Marshall walks off, but swiftly returns
to assault Lauer. Next we cut to an apparent lecture in a darkened
room in which Marshall is expounding his theory once again. However, as he turns on the lights
we find it is simply a classroom. His students begin to mock him and he dismisses them. But
at this point a young woman, Holly Cantrell enters the room. She is from the UK, but has
tracked him down because she truly believes in his theories. He is now less certain, but
she presents him with a fossil that is millions of years old and includes an imprint of his
lighter. Later back in his apartment, Marshall has
passed out in a food coma. Holly arrives to find him surrounded with empty wrappers from
the various junk foods he has been gorging on. It is then that she spots his tachyon
amplifier - the device he believes can help transport them to a different dimension. She
turns it on to find, when up and running, it emits the sound of a show tunes song. Having
persuaded Marshall to test the amplifier with her, we find the two of them out in the desert.
They pull over and into a shop, where they meet its owner, Will Stanton. He attempts
to sell them various fireworks as well as various other pieces of tat, but they politely
refuse. Instead, they ask him to show them a cave.
Inside the cave, Stanton is paddling a dingy along a stream. He is animated and attempts
to engage them with his dramatic tales and props. They, however, are more interested
in monitoring the levels of tachyon energy, much to his annoyance. As the signals pick
up, the scientist cranks up his machine. An apparent earthquake is initiated, which Marshall
describes as the greatest ever known. The stream becomes a gushing torrent and the dingy
is carried along it with increasing rapidity, with the amplifier being lost en route. It
quickly carries its three occupants over the edge of a sheer drop and we see them plunging
into an abyss. They awaken in a sprawling sandy desert, with
a multitude of other planets and moons visible in the sky. Confirming Marshall’s theory
about time, they spot a viking ship with a plane that has crashed into it. The scientist
begins to film a video blog of their trip, but it is interrupted by a sound. The three
of them hasten to the top of a dune, from which they spot two apelike creatures trying
to execute another. Stanton, however, interrupts them by showing them his lighter. Behind an
ancient monument the would-be victim of the execution, Cha-Ka, is hiding. The three adventurers
lure him out and attempt to befriend him. Holly is able to communicate with him and
elicits his name. Marshall aggravates him though and, as he runs off, attempts to chase
him. The pursuit doesn’t last long, as the group plunge through a hole in the desert
and into a cave. Inside the cave, Holly is able to convey to Cha-Ka that Marshall is
a great chief. This seems to convince and calm their hairy companion.
The peace is quickly interrupted, when they are all suddenly strung up in the air by a
number of vines. They are in a feeding station! As they attempt to swing across the cave to
free themselves, they are confronted by a t-rex. In the subsequent attack, the vines
are broken and the group escapes. They run along a path with the dinosaur on their tails.
Once they cross a narrow bridge They think they’ve lost it. Marshall begins to mock
its intelligence, suggesting its brain is only the size of a walnut. But the t-rex leaps
over the gap and continues its hunt. Quickly, they take refuge in another cave with a narrower
entrance. Unable to get in, the predator abandons its prey, but only after covering them in
its saliva. Within the cave, the group finds the skeletal remains of its previous human
occupants. Before bedding down for the night, they question whether Cha-Ka should be allowed
to remain, with Marshall against the idea. Holly then questions the Pakuni as to why
he was about to be killed. He claims it was as a result of a plot to overthrow him and
they agree to let him stay. The next day, the group are desperate to eat.
Marshall is busy filming a video log about how he would best cook and serve Cha-Ka. Cha-Ka
then returns with armfuls of a large fruit. Marshall cracks one open to find it full of
insects, which Cha-Ka begins to eat. He then asks if they are now friends. Suddenly the
scientist begins to sense a message being transmitted directly into his brain. He runs
off in the direction of his impulse, with his friends following him. They arrive in
an ancient, seemingly abandoned temple. In the middle of it, is a giant vibrating crystal.
Stanton and Marshall then place their hands on this and begin to sing. They are interrupted
by their local companion who attempts to warn them of something in their midst. However,
all they hear are the words chorizo taco. He was trying to tell them about the Sleestaks
- a group of lizard men, who emerge and surround them. Marshall reacts by reflecting the light
from Holly’s belt buckle onto the eyes of some nearby statues. This opens a triangular-shaped
portal in the previously flat crystal. They hop inside, believing they are now safe. Once
the door closes, they find themselves on a floating crystal with another of the creatures,
although this one is clad in a tunic. He introduces himself as Enik and expresses his respect
for Marshall’s work. He warns them of an exile Zarn, who wants to take over the Earth.
He suggests that this can be prevented with the help of Marshall’s amplifier. Enik claims
it is nearby but he must remain in the pylon to protect his crystals. As they head off
to find it, Stanton remarks that they should never trust a man in a tunic.
To protect himself from the dinosaurs, Marshall douses himself in their urine and also tries
to imbibe some. It doesn’t work though, as they approach an area framed with the Golden
Gate bridge. Here they encounter many smaller dinosaurs attacking an ice-cream seller and
two bigger ones more interested in them. A chase ensues, with Marshall their primary
target. He tries to escape their attention by posing as a statue and then hiding in a
stretch hummer. It doesn’t work though, but when he finds a canister of liquid nitrogen
he has a brainwave. The three use an ancient catapult to propel this into the air and down
the throat of the Allosaurus, killing it. It explodes, to reveal the amplifier had been
inside its stomach. However, before it can be reclaimed it is snatched and carried away
by a Pteranodon, with The Chorus Line still playing. Marshall is on the cusp of giving
up, but his friends are frustrated by this. After some thought he returns to their campfire,
armed with a banjo and begins to sing. As he does so, a mosquito-like bug appears on
his shoulder and begins to suck his blood. As it becomes bigger and bigger, Marshall
tires and grays. Within seconds he collapses onto his back, crushing the now enormous blood-filled
insect. The next day, the friends climb up a volcano
to find a nest of Pteranodon eggs at the top, barring their route to the amplifier. With
Stanton and Cha-Ka reluctant to help, Marshall picks his way between the eggs to retrieve
the vital piece of equipment. This he does, but as he picks it up the music dies and the
eggs begin to hatch. Holly, however, suggests the music was a lullaby. Marshall begins to
sing, with support from the others, Cha-Ka included, and makes his way back unimpeded.
Mission accomplished, a celebration ensues. The group pitch up at an abandoned motel and
begin to party around its pool. Cha-Ka then offers them a drink from a nearby fruit tree.
As the three gentlemen party, Holly heads off to explore the surrounding area with the
amplifier. They are approached by a giant crab, which is suddenly sucked into the earth.
It is expelled equally quickly in pieces and fully cooked. Partiers reveal their feelings
for one another as they chomp on the giant crab claws. In a nearby glade, full of crystals,
Holly encounters Zarn. He warns her that it is actually Enik that they should fear, because
it is he who plans to lead an army of Sleestak to seize the Earth. Before he can finish speaking,
his body is struck down by a beam of light from Enik and Holly is grabbed by one of his
lizard-like followers. Realizing Holly has been taken, the three others set off to find
her. Inside a cave, Stanton and Marshall believe
they are watching two of the lizards about to get it on. However, they are actually shedding
their skins. The men subsequently don these and make their way to Holly’s execution,
where they reveal their true selves. Here they are sentenced to death for attempting
to help Enik who, it transpires, was banished and forced to wear the tunic as a punishment.
A struggle unfolds, during which Marshall is able to rescue Holy from a cage above a
fiery pit. Having escorted her to relative safety, she kisses the scientist passionately.
They are interrupted by Enik, who uses his powers to turn the attention of the t-rex
onto Marshall once again. He sends Holly away by using some harsh words. With Stanton fearful
and unwilling to help, he then grabs a stick and uses it to pole-vault himself towards
the dinosaur and - somewhat unfeasibly - straight down its throat. As Holly and Stanton begin
an unsuccessful fight back against the Sleestak, Marshall returns riding the t-rex. With this
on their side, they win the battle. Though the others are disturbed to find out exactly
how Marshall found his way out of the body of the ancient being.
Next, back in the pylon, the friends confront Enik. A fight breaks out, dislodging a crystal
as it does so. As the opening back to Earth appears to be flickering out, Marshall grabs
a small crystal from Holly’s necklace and uses it to replace the one which was lost.
While Marshall and Holly head to the exit, hand in hand, Stanton declares his intention
to stay in his new home. In the final sequences of the film, Stanton and his buddy Cha-Ka
arrive at Cha-Ka’s settlement to a rapturous reception. Stanton is quickly surrounded by
a group of the females, who prod and probe him with intrigue. Contrary to what Cha-Ka
had previously stated, they are stunning and also scantily-clad. Thus the human is happy
with his decision. Meanwhile, back in the real world, Marshall
reveals his passion for Holly in the cave. They also let Stanton’s colleague know he
has decided to stay. Finally, the scientist returns to the same TV show once again to
revel in his success, give the host a dinosaur egg and unveil his new book. It is titled
“Matt Lauer Can Suck It”. This time it is the host who loses his rag and attempts
to wrestle with his mocking guest. As the credits roll, we are treated to a shot of
the abandoned dinosaur egg shaking and ready to hatch.
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