Year One
(2009)
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When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Black and Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world. |
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San Francisco Chronicle
Black and Cera have something else in common: They are both very skilled, very precise comedians. In the case of Black, this is well known, and in the case of Cera, it's no surprise, considering his performance in 'Superbad'. Still, it's a striking thing to find a 21-year-old actor with such self-assurance, such innate timing and such a thorough understanding of himself as a screen entity […]'Year One' [...] it's always lively. After 30 years of writing and sometimes directing some very fine comedies ('Groundhog Day', 'Analyze This', 'Caddyshack', 'Ghostbusters', 'Animal House', 'Stripes'), Ramis knows exactly what it takes to hold an audience's attention in comedy. Every character is made vivid and absurd
Time Out
Set at the dawn of humanity (sort of), a time of hunter-gatherers, peasant farmers and idol-worshipping Sodomites,...