Year One- "Let There Be Laughs!"
The movie encompasses a large time span is a very short run time (97 mins) but its cracking pace, hums along nicely enough to keep the viewer engaged and entertained. We meet Cain and Abel, and traverse the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorra, and fight alongside Roman soldiers. We also experience the wonders of ' the wheel" and learn that those basic instincts such as hunting gathering and clubbing your prospective mate over the head and dragging her back to your cave, aren't as productive for this developing civilisation as our history books would lead us to believe.
My criticisms here stem from the lack of screen time that Hank Azaria (The Birdcage, Night at the Musuem 2)and Paul Rudd (Role Models)are allowed. Both are underutilised and I thought it was quite a shame to waste their talents. Having recently seen movies featuring them though I can only gather that time and or budget constraints were the cause of their limited screen time.
All in all director Harold Ramis has delivered another quality comic outing. I wouldn't put it on par with Groundhog Day or Analyze This, but it was a boulder of laughs.
This Neanderthal gives it 3/5.
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