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Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Jack Black has always had an appealing personality which always lightens up the screen, especially with movies such as High Fidelity (2000), Shallow Hal (2001), The School of Rock (2003) and Tropic Thunder (2008). Not even his presence in Year One could even save this movie from being banished back to the stone age. Humour was non-existent from start to finish and anything that was meant to be funny just wasn't working. Overall, this was a movie to forget.Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) are banished from their village after eating from the forbidden tree. As they make their way to Sodom, they encounter a variety of biblical characters and somehow change the course of history.The late Harold Ramis who always struck box office gold as an actor with Stripes (1981) and Ghostbusters (1984) and in the director's chair with Groundhog Day (1993) and Analyse This (1999) struck out with this forgettable comedy.The only redeemable thing about Year One was when the movie ended. Such a shame that this could have been light hearted entertainment but in the end, the movie just did not work. Give this a miss.2/10.

This movie offers a cozy relaxation time with a few laughs and a good cast and also a good director.So we have two buddy's who are different but work well of each other and leave their village 2 discover new things and it just has a nice sense of adventure and good feel and the movie just offers this good and cozy look. Its definitely not a great film but its something that you might want 2 see again when your in the right mood.These guys meet a lot of weird people and get into lot of weird circumstances and its just genuinely funny sometimes.Definitely worth a check and not bad in a sense that its not enjoyable cause it most certainly could be worth your time.

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.

Comedies, with the exception of Rom-Com's seem to get the short end of the ratings stick, but I ask what's harder these days: to jam in a bunch of special effects on screen, or make an audience laugh, and I'd say it's the latter. Year One has many laugh out loud moments and unlike many comedies they aren't all exhausted in the first 15 minutes. The humour is silly and no, don't look for sophistication, but when I think of all the poorly written SNL based films and other comedies that border on the absurd, Year One doesn't deserve the poor ratings it has. Watch it again, or for the first time whatever the case may be and be surprised at the jokes. I don't like rating movies on one general scale so I will say it's a 9/10 in the pure comedy genre - in that it makes me laugh to this day.