Review of Year One (2009) by Nick O — 22 Nov 2010
Folks, not every movie has to be a gem. Hell, most don't even try, and they all don't need to. "Year One" is a baseless and primitive (why not immediately go there?) attempt at slapstick.
..well no, it's not even too much an attempt, really. Director Harold Ramis and "The Office" scribe regulars Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg don't squeeze much out of 'em, but show me a wide array of funny people and I'm satisfied with 90 minutes of playing "look who it is!" Even the movie's best scene, a monologue from Bill Hader as a tribal leader, is just Hader being Hader.
That's fine. I really don't care. The only movie I have to compare this to is "Land of the Lost", which hey, embraced an entirely new brand of dumbass but at least didn't look like it was filmed on a sitcom set.
And Ramis, just FYI: none of this actually happened in year one.
This review of Year One (2009) was written by Nick O on 22 Nov 2010.
Year One has generally received negative reviews.
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