Trekker4747, do you like Anchorman?
I found it to be OK. But overall not as funny as others make it out to be.
It was certainly more the level of comedy that suits Ferrell better, however. Such broad comedy needs a "broad universe" to take place in.
For example, Ferrell's apperance in "Wedding Crashers" "broke the reality" of that movie. The movie played it fairly straight that Wilson's and Vaughn's character had to have a level of smarts and "acting" to pull off their "crashes." Then we meet the man who inspired the practice -played by Ferrell- and he's so broad and over the top that's hard to believe he's so sucessful in his "crashing" practices. For instance, we see him "crash" a funeral where his crying out and fussing like a board idiot in a bad melodrama and miming humping his marks. It "breaks the reality" of it because he's so over-the-top.
But I will say that he was darn good in "Stranger than Fiction." I think he just needs to be in a director willing to smack Ferrell on the wrist and keep him in check a little bit. He was OK, also, in movies like Taladega Nights and Old School, again where a degree of broad comedy was "part of the universe."
But the trailers for Land of the Lost just make me sigh and roll my eyes because even I, somone who knows very little about the original, can see what they're doing to the original. And even stuff in the trailer is broad. The serpentine pattern, the tick that appears to suck out ALL of his blood, etc.
Just too much.
You're just not that funny when you play this broad. I loved you in "Stranger than Fiction" but movies like this does you no favors to me.
Just to be clear that's in good humored fun.
