Year One

2009 "Meet your ancestors"
4.9| 1h37m| PG-13| en
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When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.

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SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Realrockerhalloween After the success of school of rock I decided to give Jack Black a break in the acting and directing department until This came along. Its not funny or entertaining in the least and only composes random events together as if an attempt to make it so. The caste was worst I've ever seen and try to play it too straight losing any dignity it had. The sets look terrible as if a kindergarten class was putting together a group project.None of the characters are likable and try to be offensive just to be. I really don't see who they were catering to as even the low brow will caste it aside as deserving of a razzie award. Maybe its not my type of film, but after seeing this atrocity I felt it was my duty to steer clear anyone consider renting of buying the DVD. I usually don't trash films or at least cut them a break if any artistic merit was attempted. Here I just don't see it. All I can say is choose better projects in the future Jack Black and Michael Vera or your careers will stall. I'd give it a zero if possible.
Alexia Wilder This movie is smart stupid, everyone is so clumsy and clueless, no mater what they do in ends wrong but there is just one optimistic person... and is the main character.I have watched this movie probably 10 times at least, it is so random, anything can happen and it will. But you have to like that sort of humor, if you like Napoleon Dynamite this one is 1000 better, probably in the line of Ferrys Buellers Day off, not as classic but in the same package. It is good to watch it with your girlfriend with some pizza in a silly night, not for a first date... later on because the movie may be a risk. But totally recommended.
david-sarkies This movie is absolute rubbish. I guess the only reason I saw it was because of the one line in the trailer that I liked, and that was when Oh, upon seeing the woman he loved, asked her if they could catch up when she got off, to which she replied 'I'm a slave, I don't get time off'.Anyway, the movie is about two goof balls, Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera), a hunter and a gatherer, who live in a tribe at the beginning of time. Oh is in love, and Zed is simply lazy, and the others in the tribe look down upon them. While they are out one day, goofing off, they come across the forbidden tree and eat from it, and are then kicked out of the tribe. They the wonder around the ancient world, meeting Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac, and then land up at Sodom where they discover that their tribe have become slaves.The movie is very loosely based upon the biblical stories in the early part of Genesis, and I say loosely because most of the movie is built around Zed and Oh going from being goof balls to rescuing their tribe from slavery and freeing the people of Sodom from the evil high priest.Personally, there is not really much else I want to write about this film simply because the jokes weren't really all that funny, just crude, and the film not all that original. To be honest, it was rubbish.
ichhattezentimeter the only kind of people hating on this movie are Christians they try to hide the fact how god was and how he is and which people still follow him they hate the fact that this just shows that the only people ever defended by god were not eating pork waring headscarfes etc the god of Abraham is not the god of Christianity that teaches Adolf Hitler is in heaven as long he pays church taxes and that all evil is forgiven xtians have problems with people not being lawless beasts they have problems with laws except those made by humans and what is the point crying about people laughing about it when all you do for your "god" is living the exact atheist lifestyle except you say you believe on time in 10 years hypocrites