Year One (2009)

I can't understand all the bad reviews. Black and Cera are a great team! Together they could make alot of funny buddy-films. Remind me of the dynamic between Tony Randall and Jack Klugman. Even Abbott and Costello. Film has an awesome supporting cast, as well. As much as I love this film I was surprised by the budget of $60 million. Seriously, 60,000,000? Huh.

I like Jack Black and I like Cera as well. Harold Ramis is a funny man, and very talented. However, this turkey could have been made (and looked like it was made) for 6M instead of 60M. I liked some of the skits in the film (the killing of Abel and one or two of the Sodom scenes). However, three scenes and five good minutes cannot rescue a rambling mess. To be viewed only if it is free. (and then much beer and junk food will be required as well).Dr. Arthur H Tafero (AskMrMovies)

This movie is absolute rubbish. I guess the only reason I saw it was because of the one line in the trailer that I liked, and that was when Oh, upon seeing the woman he loved, asked her if they could catch up when she got off, to which she replied 'I'm a slave, I don't get time off'.Anyway, the movie is about two goof balls, Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera), a hunter and a gatherer, who live in a tribe at the beginning of time. Oh is in love, and Zed is simply lazy, and the others in the tribe look down upon them. While they are out one day, goofing off, they come across the forbidden tree and eat from it, and are then kicked out of the tribe. They the wonder around the ancient world, meeting Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac, and then land up at Sodom where they discover that their tribe have become slaves.The movie is very loosely based upon the biblical stories in the early part of Genesis, and I say loosely because most of the movie is built around Zed and Oh going from being goof balls to rescuing their tribe from slavery and freeing the people of Sodom from the evil high priest.Personally, there is not really much else I want to write about this film simply because the jokes weren't really all that funny, just crude, and the film not all that original. To be honest, it was rubbish.

Year One.I love Jack Black's work, he's a hilarious actor. I love his movies. But this movie is no exception. I hate how they gave a funny actor like Jack Black, a crappy, cheesy and completely unfunny script to work with. This movie felt longer than it actually was and I remember falling asleep half way through it. Why? Because it's one of the worst comedy movies ever.Okay, so the concept was good. I've barely seen any movies that do this. But the actual execution of the movie - boring. It's like a Michael Bay movie, it's trying to be funny when it's not! The only thing that prevented me from giving it one star was the fact that Jack Black was in it. The other guy...who the hell is he? Never seen him before.If they got a comedy writer, one who is a master of the art. It could have been a great movie.