Steve Pulaski Watching Larry Clark's Teenage Caveman, I felt as if I was being Punk'd, especially when one character tells another she looks like "she's in a bad B-movie." Clark has made a career out of being subversive and downright wild behind the camera, capturing adolescent debauchery and lawless behavior amongst youth with a frightening authenticity, mainly because Clark's own adolescent was dominated by intimate photography and heavy drug use.By the time Teenage Caveman was made, Clark had developed a name for himself with his shocking film Kids, his solid sophomore effort Another Day in Paradise, and his brutally honest Bully, released a year prior. I'd say he was on a role, with one strong film after another at the time. With Clark's already established filmography, I can only assume and guess why he wanted to dive into the often doomed realm of modern odes to campy science- fiction pictures of yesteryear. The story exists in a post-apocalyptic world where a great deal of humanity has been erased thanks to a viral epidemic. The few remaining souls have resorted to tribalism in the regard that they gather in packs and rely on basic human instinct to get by, as if their common sense, morality, and values have all been extracted along with the epidemic.A group of survivors, all teens, soon come in contact with two people who have been genetically altered and modified in order to combat the epidemic and now reside in a city reliant off of solar power. They have their own vision of humanity, although we never really grasp what that may be. The two groups collide and what ensues is pure madness as each try to assert dominance as well as go about their own agendas.The teens have virtually no personality, so to name them is a worthless exercise. The film, if it should be remembered as anything besides what seems to be a go- for-broke filmmaking attempt by Clark, should be seen as a solid showcase for talents of Richard Hillman, who plays one of the genetically-altered humans. Hillman handles this offbeat character effectively, that is, until emotions rings true in the last act. Up until then, however, he is great fun to watch and his frantic acting talents are a rarity that are nice to see unfold before us. Other than Hillman, nobody else shines, particularly because their characters are so thinly written. But even that is a non- issue compared to the fact that the film is just terribly uninteresting. Clark tries to infuse the story with the coldness of teen sex and relations and it's a move that is more fun to comment on than actually watch. The futuristic setting, especially in the context of a viral epidemic and mutant forces, just doesn't make for an interesting time period on sex and adolescent bonding. It seems that beneath the rubbish, Clark had the idea of making this film one that would potentially see sex in the future as an action robbed of its intentional purpose - to produce love and pleasure. An overarching theme in Clark's filmography is the loss of meaningful sex, and here, the meaning is muddled to the point where sex means as much as a spur-of-the-moment kiss or hug but with even less sentiment and passion. With this idea as my only justification for the material at hand, Clark seems to be going for some attempt at commentary lodged firmly inside a story that acts as an homage to the corny, ultra-low- budget science-fiction films from the thirties, forties, and fifties. I admire the courage and the subversiveness completely but, in the end, I sigh at the result. Teenage Caveman will forever be etched in Clark's filmography, replacing another film potentially having a great amount of insight and braver filmmaking.Starring: Richard Hillman, Tiffany Limos, Andrew Keegan, Tara Subkoff, and Stephen Jasso. Directed by: Larry Clark.

d-plate Teenage Caveman is quite possibly the worst movie ever created. Unfortunately I will never watch Law&Order SVU ever again because the writer of that wrote this movie. This B film should be referred to in negative numbers it was so bad. I will say it is entertaining to make fun of the plot and the lack of acting. Not to mention the nasty boobs that are throughout the movie. I am now seriously re-evaluating my life after watching this movie, maybe because I don't want my life to be as empty and pointless as this storyline. I didn't know when the next person would spontaneously explode that was the only real entertainment I took from this movie, and if your reading this and haven't see the movie, yes i'm not kidding a topless black woman explodes while another alien woman pleasures herself. Who ever helped in this movie I hope God has mercy on your soul.

bammy_international Having seen Larry Clark's films prior to this, those that were stirring, confronting and thought provoking, I was prepared to forgive the title of this movie and give it a chance. What a mistake, a Z grade movie of a budget too low to bring it to anything near what the initial vision would have been, a story thinner than Karen Carpenter after purging and acting that I have seen better improvs and single takes of. 80 odd minutes of my life I will never have back. And the sad thing is we have seen him get results from unknown actors, ugh! Come on Larry, I can forgive this as a one off blip, but only because I know that your best is brilliant. Get rid of the girl with the curl and please be very good again. If you want to see quality low budget shlock horror go for one of Peter Jackson's films like Bad Taste instead.

mcw8u This film feels like a big group of guys got together and said "let's make a movie!" Some of them wanted to make a sci-fi movie, some of them wanted to make a horror/action flick, some of them wanted to make a "Lord of the Flies"-esquire statement about the nature of man in his natural habitat, and some of them wanted to make a porn. Since they couldn't decide on just one type of movie, they decided to try and cram it all together - however each genre is so shoddily done that they all fail. The terrible special effects were rivaled only by the terrible acting, which was topped by the skin-crawling bad script. I watched this movie for three reasons: first, I couldn't believe it was really THAT terrible (it thought it had to get better at some point). Second, I've seen Andrew Keegan act, so I know he can and thus kept expecting him to at some point. And to be honest, the guy who plays Neil is pretty attractive. (You're stooping pretty low when the only redeeming fact you can find in a movie is that the actors were pretty.) It's amazing that hundreds of people can work on the creative end of a movie, and yet productions like Teenage Caveman still get made.