Mynameisroman
Wow. After only 7 minutes in the movie you know why the low ratings. its just awful. i usually like the main cast but here they feel totally wrong from the beginning. this humour might works when you are a child but not when you are an adult. sadly the movie continues to be bad. there are some nice bits and pieces here and there but mostly not worth your time.
Movie Enthusiast
I join with those people who say that they do not understand what the critics are on about. I think people who criticize this movie do not understand the style of humor the movie has.I think the setting and concept was quite original for the comedy and Jack Black was as funny as ever. I really like Jack Black, he is one of my favorite comedy actors. He has many things going for him that make him very likable: he has very positive energy overall, warm and friendly on-screen aura, is over the top, crazy in a cute sort of way, spunky and sparkly.Michael Cera had a very good chemistry with Jack Black, balancing his extrovert Zed with sattle awkwardness and kookiness.The actress who played Cera's characters girl friend was super cute, i have forgotten her name, she is quite famous. All other supporting characters did a good job as well.Really, if people are giving this film a bad rap I just think they did not understand the off-beat humour of the film.
Screen_Blitz
Director Harold Ramis takes us back the old ages with this slipshod comedy partially based on the Book of Genesis, starring an amazing cast of Jack Black, Michael Cera, David Cross, Oliver Platt, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Olivia Wilde, Juno Temple, Vinnie Jones, and Hank Azaria. Jack Black plays Zed, a caveman living off in a poor village, surviving from hunting and gathering from animals. Zed is unhappy about the village life as is friend Oh (Michael Cera), who tries unsuccessfully to win the heart of one of the village girls Ema (Juno Temple), and Zed who is in love with Maya (June Diane Raphael). While trekking outside the boundaries of the village, Zed and Oh come across the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil where Zed eats the forbidden fruit. Thus, Zed becomes cursed and flees from the village with Oh and travels to the city of Sodom ruled by a cruel priest (Oliver Platt). In the process, they encounter the murder of Abel (Paul Rudd) by his brother Cain (David Cross) and the attempted killing of Isaac (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) by father Abraham (Hank Azaria).Despite the talented cast, this movie falls short of nothing but one-joke comedy. It introduces a fresh idea, although genuinely similar to the popular Monty Python films such as The Holy Grail and Life of Brian. This film tries to get out the laughs from dull humor and stale dialogue, some of the humor is hilarious, but most of it falls flat. Apparently since this is set in the year one as described by the title, the jokes have to be "year one". The film struggles to come with inspiring humor other than light-hearted reenactments of the killing of Abel and binding of Isaac. Jack Black and Michael Cera manage to steal at least most of the spotlight with occasionally funny gags and dialogue, the rest of the cast left with nothing funny or remotely exciting to bring to the table. The biggest dilemma is not the cast nor the acting, but the lazy screenplay.Year One is quite a disappointing comedy for such an amazing cast, with lame jokes and lame script. Unless you are avid Jack Black and Michael Cera fan, this film mostly not for you.
alsation72
Most of the references are biblical, but this "year one" has no real historical meaning at all. It is just a stupid, irrational look at a past that never happened. (The bible is a Bedouin book of folktales if you were to ask me).If we are going to talk about 1 BC - 1 AD, well that is a full thousand years AFTER the last of the Egyptian empire (subsequently conquered by Persians, Greeks, then Romans). This is just a silly pastiche of sketches that apparently lampoon various stories in the old Testament (you know, the Jewish religious text; Christians tend to ignore this fact.If it were funny, and had a Monty Python/ Mel Brooks touch to it, this might have worked to some extent. Jewish people should probably be insulted by this crap.It is totally unfunny and the illogic overwhelms anything remotely humorous. What on Earth were Jack Black and John Cera thinking? What was anyone associated with this abomination thinking?
AD
