Land of the Lost is a 2009 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Brad Silberling and starring Will Ferrell, Danny McBride and Anna Friel, based on the 1974 Sid and Marty Krofft TV series of the same name.

Plot

An astronaut attempts to contact Houston after crash landing in an alien jungle. He hears a loud roar, and screams in fear as the screen goes dark.

Pompous paleontologist Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell) has a low-level job at La Brea Tar Pits, three years after a disastrous interview with Matt Lauer of Today became a viral video and ruined his career. Graduate student Holly Cantrell (Anna Friel) tells him that his controversial theories combining time warps and paleontology inspired her. She shows him a fossil with an imprint of a cigarette lighter that he recognizes as his own, she also shows him a crystal made into a necklace that gives off strong tachyon power. She convinces him to finish his tachyon amplifier and come help her on a seemingly routine expedition to the middle of nowhere.