After being banished from their tribe, two hunter-gatherers encounter Biblical characters and eventually wind up in the city of Sodom.
4 June 1969, Santiago, Chile
25 April 1964, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
12 January 1960, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
4 April 1964, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
21 November 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 September 1967, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
7 June 1978, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
31 January 1976, New Hyde Park, New York, USA
26 August 1977
18 October 1985, Petaluma, California, USA
28 August 1969, Hermosa Beach, California, USA
21 January 1969, La Mirada, California, USA
20 June 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 January 1965, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
September 29, 2012
Stretched painfully thin to feature length, it's a concept that's gestated for 34 years but hasn't evolved a microbe. It also proves that the Harold Ramis of '09 has nothing on the Harold Ramis of '75.
June 22, 2009
[Year One has] some very funny moments but not enough of them.
June 19, 2009
The people who made Year One seem to think that all you have to do to make a hit comedy is get a bunch of jokesters together. But where are the jokes?
January 05, 2010
Creatively it's a giant step backwards, with Jack Black and Michael Cera playing to the kids as inept hunter-gatherers who stumble across various Old Testament characters.
June 19, 2009
Harold Ramis' comedy is more evolved than the trailers let on, but after a solid hit to the popcorn audience's vestigial funny bone, the humor retreats into a lazy, generic swamp.
July 04, 2010
a lazy excrescence of a film. Crude, sloppy, flat, and singularly uninspired, its only redeeming virtue is proving that Michael Cera is capable of rising above even this abominable material
April 15, 2010
Only big fans of Cera and Black need catch this film, and even then, it's far from a must-see.
August 09, 2010
From its ill-concieved concept to its timing-free chemistry and embarrassingly-bad characterisations, Year One is a major misfire in every respect.
December 28, 2010
Dudley Moore once made a pretty forgettable comedy giving various well-worn bible stories a light irony wash by reacting to them with the skepticism and confusion a person of today might. Year One is basically that, but dumber.
July 03, 2009
'Year One' wants to be seen as a freeform, knockabout trawl through Biblical history, perfect for an undemanding Saturday night. There are only two problems: it's kind of dull and just isn't funny.
October 21, 2014
In the beginning there was light, which was closely followed by the fart joke.
