Year One

Pros: Black and Cero.
Cons: Horrible script.

After I saw the trailers for this, uh, film, I had at least modest hopes that it might be entertaining.  I like Jack Black, Michael Cera and Oliver Platt.  Director, co-screenwriter Harold Ramis has been associated with a number of amusing ...

Pros: Black, Cera, Cross very funny, a few solid gags
Cons: Predominantly juvenile bodily function based comedy, nonsense plot

Seeing a movie with a preview audience is always going to be a bit of a skewering experience, critically speaking.  Now, what if the film's director is sitting four rows away and the whole evening is a celebration of the legendary comedian?  ...

Pros: Hank Azaria, and some sporadic laughs from Michael Cera.
Cons: Jack Black is all effort and no results.

If you watch SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE with any regularity…you know that it’s mostly an exercise in frustration.  Usually there are a few really funny moments surrounded by 90% completely half-baked material that evokes more a feeling of ...

Pros: None
Cons: The acting, the plot, the unfunny, crude and offensive jokes

Year One, starring Jack Black and Michael Cera, looked to be incredibly promising after seeing the funny advertisements - but really, it turned out to be one of those movies where only the advertisements were funny, or pretty much ...

Pros: Michael Cera.
Cons: Heavy on the Bible, Jack Black not at his best.

Ahoy, there be SPOILERS ahead!!! I actually thought I liked this movie a little bit until I read some other reviews. Evidently I did not! Or I shouldn’t have! Actually this movie probably would be in my top 10 least favorite movies of the year but ...

Pros: Gores the sacred oxen of Genesis
Cons: Not really that funny

"Year One" is a comedy in four acts.  In the first act our heroes, Zed and Oh (Jack Black and Michael Cera) are cast out of their village because Zed has eaten from the tree of the fruit of knowledge and is also no good at all as a hunter.  Oh ...

Pros: Cross and Platt save the day.
Cons: Black and Cera very predictable.

I had high expectations for Year One, but also a few misgivings: Jack Black is always hit or miss with me and Michael Cera's charming awkwardness is starting to wear thin. Also, the "historical comedy" genre is hard to predict. When Ringo Star (Caveman) ...

Pros: Lots of good laughs. A plot so basic it's unlikely to confuse anyone.
Cons: Don't take it as an accurate historical time line.

Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) belong to a primitive hunter-gatherer society lost in the mists of time. Zed is a hunter and Oh is a gatherer. Zed wants the desirable but sensible Maiah who unfortunately has set her sights higher­—"I'm ...