Year One

  • 2009


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14 % Rotten
$ 62 Million
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Positive Reviews 13
Negative reviews 65
Average Rating 1.9/5
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1.5
Year One isnt dreadful; it just isnt nearly as funny as it hopes to be. Av Club
2.0
Even the bright performances cant save a wedged together, totally unnecessary plot, and Year One commits comedy heresy when Black ends up learning a l .. Av Club
1.5
Jack Blacks fine when hes with Cera but there are some excruciating moments when hes not, I want you to sit on the poliest of polies. Den Of Geek
1.5
Well, actually, Zed doesnt trek across time, it just seems that way. Den Of Geek
1.5
Expanding the horizons of a hunter/gatherer would appear to be quite dangerous work What should have been a reasonably warm hearted and hilarious jaun .. Den Of Geek
3.0
This is just silliness run mildly wild.One reason that Im always up for a Jack Black comedy is that he never, ever loses his enjoyment of idiot cool. EW
1.3
But Year One is a dreary experience, and all the ending accomplishes is to bring it to a close. Rogerebert
1.9
Primitive beyond its time period, Harold Ramiss bibilical buddy comedy Year One often makes ye wish 2001: A Space Odysseys dawn of man apes had never ..
1.5
The few toilet humour gags come across as a weary pandering to an imaginary adolescent male target demographic. Screen Daily
1.5
I cant say I hated it and theres nothing deeply insulting; its just stale and co writer and director Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day) should be able to de .. Collider
1.5
Long story short, this flick isnt very good, and thats a shame when you consider the pedigree it has going for it. Collider
1.0
The only people who should be peeved enough to raise hell about Year One are the viewers who had to pay to sit through it.
2.0
The movie is well aware of its predicament it has a premise which never evolves into a plot. Telegraph
2.0
If youre going to locate your comedy at the birth of the Abrahamic religions, you should try to do better than a circumcision gag.
2.5
Instead Year One tries to be both a comedy and an adventure movie, except the adventure is so lame that it saps all the energy right out of the comedy .. Cinema Blend
1.0
To compare the inane Year One to a Monty Python comedy like Life of Brian is like saying a Natural History lecture is as thrilling as Raquel Welch in .. Ny Daily News
2.0
What LIFE OF BRIAN did so well, was take a strong narrative and dress it up with silly humor and a naked man with a long beard. YEAR ONE has nothing t .. JoBlo
1.3
Perhaps the best that can be said for Year One is that it aims low and hits the mark. The Globe And Mail
3.1
OK, its a thin concept.Maybe thats why its antic silliness spreads so evenly over its hour and a half duration. Philly
1.9
An inexplicably unfunny comedy made by two people who have proven they can do much better: director/co writer Harold Ramis and co producer Judd Apatow .. ReelViews
3.1
Its not quite as funny or as brilliant, but its in the same spirit. Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
Harold Ramiss career as a big studio filmmaker might well have ended with The Ice Harvest (2005), a classy, grown up crime comedy that flopped miserab .. Chicago Reader
2.0
Harold Ramis...serves up some low brow humor in a fitful script, but his film is elevated into the ranks of pleasurably stupid humor by terrific comic ..
1.9
This unevenness hardly proves disastrous, however, and its ultimately impossible to deny the effectiveness of many of the films attributes (ie Oliver .. Reel Film Reviews
2.0
If you cant take this premise and these actors and come up with anything funnier than Jack Black eating poop, then you have no business making comedie .. Eric Ds Nider
2.0
Most of the jokes are pretty lame, but some of them are pretty funny, and Black and Cera make a surprisingly effective team; Blacks explosiveness and .. News Review
3.0
Before any of that comes to fruition, however, Zed breaks the rules and eats some fruit from the Forbidden Tree and thus is exiled from the clan. Screen It
2.0
The gimmick is to overlay the dangers of ancient life with the knowingness of modern comedy. Independent
2.0
This hodgepodge of random elements from prehistory has a kind of freewheeling charm. Shadows On The Wall
3.5
Its not enough to describe Dead Man as simply an anti western; its an iconoclastic deconstruction of late 19th Century American values and mores, many .. Pop Matters
2.0
The third thing to be said is that it is only marginally better than Land of the Lost..The fourth thing to be said is that, as you may have deduced fr .. Cs Monitor
1.9
Year One is nowhere near as funny as the ancient civilization movies I saw in high school: Life of Brian, History of the World Part I, Caligula. Its s .. New York Post
1.3
Year One a film so simple minded that even a caveman could have written it. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.3
Are you laughing yet.The problems with Year One are easy to identify: the script, the direction, the editing, the performances. Boston
3.0
This is Ramis doing a romp through biblical history, a series of sketches based on silliness and sexual suggestion. Smh
1.5
So its only the second worst of Year Ones cinematic crimes that it doesnt even have the nerve to be profane.
2.5
Nobody who ever attended a date movie will be surprised by what happens, but The Proposal has low expectations and good vibes in its favour. Toronto Star
1.0
A lame comedy about two cavemen (Black, from School of Rock, and Cera, the gentle geek from Juno) in vaguely Old Testament times, but made with such l .. Guardian
2.5
Sicario: Day of the Soldado Throughout Sicario: Day of the Soldado, characters talk about things needing to be clean, which pretty much means that a l .. Q Network
1.0
A script this lousy should never have gone into production, and should have been abandoned as soon as anyone with any influence witnessed the rushes. .. Daily Mail
2.5
Yet I have a certain affection for this movie, if only because of its conceptual simplicity. Slate
1.0
Its an incoherent mess which fails sustain any joke long enough as it lurches from one scenario to another. Eye For Film
2.5
Targeting with surgical precision the teenage market with a keenly juvenile sense of humour, Year One brings together every manner of silliness that c ..
2.0
And it was good.Easily Offended Old Testament Literalist Alert: If youre the type that thinks of the Old Testament a history book, youll find yourself .. Movies
1.0
Oliver Platt provides a few hilarious moments as a high camp high priest but you are in trouble when the outtakes over the closing credits are funnier .. Express
1.3
Something for everyone is an overused phrase, but indeed Up has it: laughs, tears, exciting action sequences, stunning visuals (and, for their first 3 .. Mr Brown Movies
1.3
Otherwise, theres nothing to see here.Comedies should leave viewers feeling good. The Movie Boy
1.5
Unfortunately, none of it works, and though the blooper reel that runs alongside the end credits seems to indicate the actors had a great time making .. Bullz-Eye
2.0
Despite a great double act at its centre, Year Oneisnt that funny, writes DONALD CLARKE Old jokes.Heck, these gags are from the Iron Age. The Irish Times
2.0
Read on to see the best of the best when it comes to the extra goodies youll be getting.Trust me, it doesnt disappoint. Total Film
2.0
The Curse of La Llorona cast members Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez and Linda Cardellini, along with director Michael Chaves, share some personal La .. Calendar Live
1.5
Casting this most contemporary of actors in the most period of pieces turns out to be inspired. Hollywood
2.0
Year One will probably appeal to the lowest of common denominators, but anyone else may find themselves terminally bored.
1.9
But theres no shortage of anatomical jokes, scatological jokes, and fart jokes, toilet humor being the last refuge of a spent comedy writer. Groucho Reviews
1.3
I dont know, but I bet the tale of the making is more interesting than the final product itself. Aisle Seat
1.5
And Oliver Platt delivers a funny, if not retreaded character of a flaming high priest. 7M Pictures
3.0
Appropriately, this comedy about the early days of humanity is stuffed with very old jokes. The Age
1.5
Instead they find the world is large and that time has no meaning. Maki At The Movies
1.5
It may go slightly beyond the blueprints for a formulaic parody movie, but it has all the same symptoms.
2.0
All this grunt work only serves to illustrate that getting a laugh out of this script is like trying to squeeze blood from a stone. Digital Spy
2.5
It has been five years since The Passion of the Christ brought the Bible epic back to the big screen, and nearly four since Judd Apatow began producin .. Christianity Today
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en .. News Blaze
0.0
Might not be Jack Blacks best film, but its definitely his worst. News Blaze
1.5
Black and Cera are caught in a witless Abbott and Costello situation...The comedy team rhythms are there; the material is not. Hollywood And Fine
2.0
Year One is an immense farce, reminiscent of a time not too long ago when silliness was best served as an endless buffet, dished up by the finest comi .. Brian Or Ndorf
0.6
Playing chicken with Ramiss latest unendurably dreary excuse for comedy proved more hazardous to health than chancing it on the tracks.Although perhap .. The Filmy Ap
1.0
Director Anne Fletcher moves the film along at a brisk pace, but it doesnt feel as breezy as it should. Nyc Movie Guru
1.9
All that remains after you buy your ticket are some bodily humor laughs of the lowest order. Js Online
1.3
While it looks like the filmmakers had a good time making the movie, not enough of it translates into a successful film with a seriously underutilized .. Movie Crypt
1.0
There is much to dislike about almost everything in Year One shoddy production values; a flat lifeless colour palette; humour that is mysoginistic, pu .. Sbs
1.0
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3.0
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3.8
Year Oneis not always laugh out loud funny, but its always lively. Chron
2.0
The idea is solid if a little quaint; Year One feels like a throwback to a Mel Brooks movie of old. The Shiz Nit
2.0
Not that this amiable, Mel Brooks throwback blows; its just not quite good enough. Metro
1.9
Post modern awareness is mixed with an ancient setting in Harold Ramis Year One, but somehow most of the humor still manages to be prehistoric.If youv .. Scene Stealers
3.0
But its still an entertaining romp from one of the genres master directors, packed with entertaining comic performances. Streaming Quickflix
2.0
The script is almost entirely without humour and not even as if attempted jokes had failed, it feels like they didnt even try a to make the audience l .. Fan The Fire Magazine
2.0
Year One is this summers The Love Guru, this weekends Land of the Lost. Orlando Sentinel
1.0
Knox Leader premium icon Record 424 objections against matchsticks housing Tribunals call PLANS for an 85 townhouse development in Wantirna have been .. News
2.5
Mr. Ramis has forgotten that its impossible to make a good comedy if everyone involved seems preternaturally aware of how funny theyre being. Critics Notebook
2.5
If this all sounds familiar, its because youve seen this all before in Carl Gottliebs Caveman. Crazed Fan Boy
2.0
Outside of the odd Mars bar in the pool, Ramis comedy managed to be hilarious without delving into the gutter for its humour, so its off putting to se .. The Diva Review
2.5
feels lazy: Theres no cheap joke Mr. Ramis and company didnt go for, no gag worthy gag they didnt include. Washington Times
2.5
Definitely, but Year One still has its moments.Step 2: Realize the absurdity of it all. The Movie Kit
3.4
Blacks over the top hubristic rants are predictable, and Ramis the director seems not to trust Ceras quiet whiny asides the movie often seems to hustl .. Ar Kansas Online
2.0
Thats pretty much what keeps the film going between underwhelming gags and comic situations. Seanax
3.0
Has its moments especially Black and Ceras knockabout pairing but Year One sidesteps greatness by allowing too much filler and swill to plug the gaps. Empire Online
1.5
Be careful of those that seek to keep you in conflict and drama..its nothing but bad energy trying to take your eyes off the prize. Giant Blackplanet
2.5
Again, nothing complex here, simply silliness for silliness sake.These simple gags butt up against throw away lines that apply our modern sensibility .. Smile Politely



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