Year One
After being banished from their tribe, two hunter-gatherers encounter Biblical characters and eventually wind up in the city of Sodom.
10 March 1984, New York City, New York, USA
22 September 1967, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
7 June 1988, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
16 August 1950, Mashhad, Iran
5 January 1965, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
21 November 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 January 1980, Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, USA
9 January 1965, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
1 January 1981, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
25 April 1964, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
13 June 1971, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
31 January 1976, New Hyde Park, New York, USA
14 July 1960, Walnut Creek, California, USA
18 October 1985, Petaluma, California, USA
28 August 1969, Hermosa Beach, California, USA
12 January 1960, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
21 July 1989, London, England, UK
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.
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.
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
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.
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 22, 2009
[Year One has] some very funny moments but not enough of them.
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.
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.
April 15, 2010
Only big fans of Cera and Black need catch this film, and even then, it's far from a must-see.
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?
