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Year One Starring Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Vinnie Jones and Hank Azaria Screenplay by Harold Ramis & Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg Based on a story by Harold Ramis Directed by Harold Ramis website: http://www.yearone-movie.com/

Ah, it's a grand thing that most Members of the Tribes have no problem making fun of our various origin stories -- writer/director Harold Ramis credits the Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks 2000 Year Old Man routine as part of his inspiration for Year One. He conveniently forgets Brooks' film The History of the World, Part One as his own Year One desperately tries to be said film for a new generation. It fails miserably, or, to quote verbatim a young lady on the way out of our screening . . .

IN SHORT: "Ohmigawd! It was terrible!" [Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, brief strong language and comic violence. 103 minutes]

In the Beginning, or a wee bit after, there were two kinds of people: Hunter-Gatherer's who, uh, hunted and gathered meat to feed the only tribe on earth, and everyone else. This is a story of two of those everyone-elses, both Hunter-Gatherer wannabees. In the best tradition of duo comedy (though this is by no means a "best" of anything) one is fairly smart -- he, of course, doesn't speak up much; one is an idiot. That would be the leader. It wouldn't be funny otherwise.

So let us begin in the Garden of Eden which has been overrun by a bunch of cavemen. The two we're interested in are Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera), who find the biblical Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Despite Oh's protestations, Zed takes a big bite of Knowledge, intending to become more "intelligent-er" than the rest of his tribe. The net result, though, gets him and his compadre kicked out of the Garden. They wander from biblical story to biblical story, first meeting Cain (David Cross) and Abel (Paul Rudd). Not that we want to spoil it for you but only Cain is important to this story. Also important is a chance rendezvous with Abraham (Hank Azaria) and his son Isaac (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), one fateful day. Eventually the pair end up in Sodom (twin city to Gomorrah, for those way distant from Sunday school) where Zed encounters all sorts of situations which kick him up the power scale. Oh takes the brunt of those schemes, of course, and the pair move in and out of slavery with regularity. He also spends a lot of time mooning over a former member of his tribe, specifically Zed's sister Eema (Juno Temple) later a slave girl whose path crosses his. Eema is a cute blonde. The Men Of the Tribe have a thing for  blondes, even thousands of years later.

In Sodom, lots of fun things - but nothing worthy of an "R" rating -  are going on. The biggest crowd pleaser is the regular Sacrifice of a Virgin to a fire breathing bull's-head idol in the city square. Over seeing the sacrifice is the High Priest of Sodom (Oliver Platt), an upstanding member of the clergy who has never, he emphasizes, never taken anything for himself. He will take someone (rhymes with "O") a whole bunch of times by the time the film is over, but it all happens off screen and will probably fly over the head of any little kidlet in your audience. 

Zed, meanwhile, is trying to figure out how to get his hands on the temple gold. Or on Sodom's Princess Ianna (Olivia Wilde), step-daughter to the King, for reasons that should be obvious.

That's the general setup. The one good joke in the entire film happens back around Abraham and Isaac and is referenced or threatened to be repeated ad nauseam. That's Latin for "ain' t no other jokes in this utter waste of time film."

And that's the end of this utter waste of time in trying to write something clever. Oh, wait . . . got one coming! . . .

On average, a first run movie ticket will run you Ten Bucks. Were Cranky able to set his own price to Year One, he would have paid . . .

$2.00

Double what we should be giving it. Then again, the "number two" does have a more appropriate meaning. But since this is a family friendly site . . . we won't explain it.

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