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Jack Black and Michael Cera headline Harold Ramis' Biblical comedy about a pair of misfit hunter-gatherers who embark on a wild journey through the ancient world after being banished from their primit... read more
Directed by: Harold Ramis
Release Date: June 19, 2009
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DVD Release Date: October 6, 2009
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May 1, 2012Humor must be highly subjective. I didn't see this when it came out because it looked like it was "too high school" but I laughed myself sick watching it. I was choking. Never've been a fan of Black or Cera (though both do okay here) so I credit writer/director Ramis for makin... read more
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March 24, 2012It seems that Harold Ramis didn't know that putting Cera and Black is a big mistake, Jack way of expressing comedy is way to different to how Cera shows which really ruined it for me, critics and the general public who watched it.
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December 29, 2011Year One is a terrible example of a comedy film, it has nothing but toilet humor and thats a sign of a crappy film. The plot is as pointless as they get, and another failure for Judd Apatow. The cast is crappy, one of the work jack Black films ever and Michael Cera is just here... read more
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November 5, 2011Meet your ancestors
Saw it again! Pretty decent funny not boring movie. It was very entertaining and it was a trip just observing the past as they joke about it, hilarious!
Zed, a prehistoric would-be hunter, eats from a tree of forbidden fruit and is banished from his tribe, a... read more -
October 24, 2011Jack Black and Michael Cera together in a comedy movie. Im sorry but it just doesn't mix. Awful movie.
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September 8, 2011Wow, this movie was crap. Everything is saturated with a stink of a crap movie. Horribly shot, horrible jokes, and an incredibly horrible attention to detail.
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August 17, 2011Interesting and laughable (as in the bad jokes and acting) however some genuinely funny moments and a good accent from Wilde. A lot of effort went into the sets and costumes but that doesn't save the terrible editing and continuity.
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June 2, 2011Most everyone seems to crap all over this movie, and, as much as I don't like jumping on bandwagons, I can't help it with this one. This film is simply not funny. I think there was maybe one line. ONE that I found kind of funny. The rest of the film is just tired, dull dreck that... read more
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May 9, 2011Not nearly as bad as I thought it would be, but the fact that I "DVR'd" it off of one of the free cable movie channels helped.
I'm not a Jack Black fan...but he was not AS annoying in this film as he normally is. I would even go so far as to say, his stupidity was actually ra... read more
Critic Reviews
January 5, 2010
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
June 22, 2009
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies
[Year One has] some very funny moments but not enough of them. Full Review
June 22, 2009
Ben Lyons, At the Movies
This is a significant notch below the great Monty Python films that tackled religion with intelligence and wit. Full Review
June 19, 2009
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
The people who made Year One seem to think that all you have to do to make a hit comedy is get a bunch of jokesters together. But where are the jokes? Full Review
June 19, 2009
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Year One is nowhere near as funny as the ancient-civilization movies I saw in high school: Life of Brian, History of the World Part I, Caligula. Its script isn't worth the papyrus it's inscribed on. Full Review
June 19, 2009
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Has neither wit nor wisdom nor charm nor beauty. Full Review
June 19, 2009
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
There is plenty of lowbrow, knuckle-dragging humor; coupled with all the gay jokes, poop jokes, Jewish jokes and you're-stupider-than-I-am jokes, the arrested-development crowd will no doubt be thorou... Full Review
June 19, 2009
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
An inexplicably unfunny comedy made by two people who have proven they can do much better: director/co-writer Harold Ramis and co-producer Judd Apatow. Full Review
June 19, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
It ambles along uncertainly, hobbled by the lack of chemistry between its two lead actors, and by gags that either try too hard or suffer from being barely there. Full Review
June 19, 2009
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Black and Cera posed in cave-man outfits for an amusing poster. Then the movie was brought forth and things went downhill. Full Review
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