Year One makes Will Ferrell’s Land of the Lost look like a masterpiece.
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06/17/09
Year One (2009)
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Reviews Counted:151
Fresh:23
Rotten:128
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Year One is a poorly executed, slapdash comedy in which the talent both in front of and behind the camera never seem to be on the same page.
Theatrical Release:26-06-2009
Synopsis: When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black and Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world in Columbia Pictures'... [More]
Starring: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross
Director: Harold Ramis
Reviews for Year One
Just like the stunt fudge on which Black chows down in his signature scene, Year One is unmistakably crap.
06/17/09
The story feels like the pitch developed during a long drinking session — what would you get if you took one of the great comedic filmmakers of the 1980s and put him together with Apatow's Superbad generation?
06/17/09
On the surface, it resembles Monty Python's Life of Brian. Yet underneath, there's cheap material. Sometimes, it briefly gleams; but in the final reckoning, it's dull.
06/17/09
Year One is this summer's The Love Guru, this weekend's Land of the Lost.
06/17/09
Platt, more than anyone, is the soul of the movie, because he makes even the most primitive perversity sound...well, civilized.
06/17/09
Just because the picture's setting is ancient doesn't mean the humor has to be, too.
06/17/09
Top CriticAn amiable stroll through biblical times featuring Jack Black and Michael Cera as exiled Neanderthals, Year One lacks seismic guffaws but elicits many mild smiles.
06/17/09
Top CriticDirector Harold Ramis knows enough about comedy to keep things ticking over nicely. That said, there's something undeniably lazy and tossed off about Year One: everyone feels like they're cruising.
06/16/09
Has its moments — especially Black and Cera's knockabout pairing — but Year One sidesteps greatness by allowing too much filler and swill to plug the gaps.
06/15/09
Targeting with surgical precision the teenage market with a keenly juvenile sense of humour, Year One brings together every manner of silliness that can be crammed into the concept.
06/15/09
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