Year One
Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, brief strong language and comic violence.
My Grade: C
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Year One, Life of Brian or History of the World it is not and it very much could've been. Harold Ramis is capable of it.
But in this movie he succumbs to mainstream poop, sex, and dick humor.
Year One chronociles the adventures of "hunter" Zed, played by Jack Black, and "gatherer" Oh, played by Michael Cera (both play their "usual characters.") Zed gets a piece of fruit from the Tree of Konwledge of Good and Evil and takes a bite in a desire to become a better hunter and even leader of his tribe. He is eventualy cast out after eating the Forbidden Fruit and Oh tags along.
Together they stumble through various Biblical tales and meet various Biblical figures, they meet Cain and set-off his battle-to-the-death with Abel, run into Abraham when he decides to start circumcising people ("This look is going to catch on, trust me.") and end up in Sodom ("What happens in Sodom, stays in Sodom.") driving them through most of this journey is to save two women from their old tribe who've been sold as slaves.
Year One works when it's being this Biblical parodlical farce. It's that kind of stuff Harold Ramis is pretty good at.
It's less good when it's making jokes about poop, farts, and having Cera's character being forced to give an oil-massage to a Sodom priest.
If they had stuck to Biblical tales jokes this movie would've been a whole lot better as these moments are when the movie shines and certainly could've done a lot more with them. (They coud've ran into the Good Samaritan, for example.)
This movie isn't worth seeing in the theaters and *might* be worth a rental. I really wonder what made Harold Ramis so suddenly obsessed with poop.
I will say though, that Olivia Wilde -as a Sodom princess- ....
Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, brief strong language and comic violence.
My Grade: C
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Year One, Life of Brian or History of the World it is not and it very much could've been. Harold Ramis is capable of it.
But in this movie he succumbs to mainstream poop, sex, and dick humor.
Year One chronociles the adventures of "hunter" Zed, played by Jack Black, and "gatherer" Oh, played by Michael Cera (both play their "usual characters.") Zed gets a piece of fruit from the Tree of Konwledge of Good and Evil and takes a bite in a desire to become a better hunter and even leader of his tribe. He is eventualy cast out after eating the Forbidden Fruit and Oh tags along.
Together they stumble through various Biblical tales and meet various Biblical figures, they meet Cain and set-off his battle-to-the-death with Abel, run into Abraham when he decides to start circumcising people ("This look is going to catch on, trust me.") and end up in Sodom ("What happens in Sodom, stays in Sodom.") driving them through most of this journey is to save two women from their old tribe who've been sold as slaves.
Year One works when it's being this Biblical parodlical farce. It's that kind of stuff Harold Ramis is pretty good at.
It's less good when it's making jokes about poop, farts, and having Cera's character being forced to give an oil-massage to a Sodom priest.
If they had stuck to Biblical tales jokes this movie would've been a whole lot better as these moments are when the movie shines and certainly could've done a lot more with them. (They coud've ran into the Good Samaritan, for example.)
This movie isn't worth seeing in the theaters and *might* be worth a rental. I really wonder what made Harold Ramis so suddenly obsessed with poop.
I will say though, that Olivia Wilde -as a Sodom princess- ....
