This is every bit as disastrous as that other jungle-based comedy - when Peter met Katie on I'm A Celebrity.
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06/27/09
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.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jun 18, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $43,337,279
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
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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06/26/09
Unless you pine for second-tier Mel Brooks, you’ll find more laughs in the Old Testament itself.
06/26/09
Top CriticThis uninspired Torah-lampooning sketch comedy is as arid and empty as the landscapes which the protagonists wander across.
06/25/09
Thou shalt avoid it like the plague - at least until the dvd is released.
06/25/09
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06/25/09
The filmmakers and cast find a few great laughs in this flimsy premise, but the whole film is so underdeveloped that it hardly seems to be up there on screen at all.
06/25/09
A buddy comedy that takes a relentlessly lowbrow look at the Book of Genesis.
06/24/09
This strategy -- cutting away before a likely punchline -- is Year One's preferred mode.
06/24/09
Far too witless to even be considered distasteful or disturbing -- it's more like watching with pity as a dorky fifth-grader tries to shock adults with a string of profanity.
06/23/09
Black and Cera produce yawns of biblical proportions.
06/23/09
What LIFE OF BRIAN did so well, was take a strong narrative and dress it up with silly humor and a naked man with a long beard. YEAR ONE has nothing to fall back on here. It's like they weren't even trying.
06/23/09
About as funny as watching Black and Cera darning socks. No, I take that back, I think either of those men could make darning socks look pretty amusing.
06/23/09
[Year One has] some very funny moments but not enough of them.
06/22/09
This is a significant notch below the great Monty Python films that tackled religion with intelligence and wit.
06/22/09
In the beginning, there was the dud.
06/22/09
Year One is quite a mixed bag of nuts...which could repulse [some] viewers... But if you can supress your gag reflex...it ascends to hyperventilating levels of hilarity.
06/21/09
I expected more from veteran comic filmmaker Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day, Analyze That), who does little with the loss of innocence idea, and doesn't really find the laughs to make the premise go the distance.
06/21/09
Top CriticWhile... the filmmakers had a good time making the movie, not enough of it translates into a successful film... the script could have used a lot more divine intervention.
06/21/09
Blessed are the cheesemakers? Not this time.
06/21/09
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June 18, 2009:
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