RRRrrrr!!! (2004) poster
2004 · comedy · parody

RRRrrrr!!!

Directed by Alain Chabat1h 38m2004
  • warm
  • brisk
  • funny
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy tribe to get some shampoo for his tribe. When the healer of the Clean Hairs tribe surprisingly kills two cavemen of his tribe, their imbecile chief assigns Pierre with curled hair and Pierre blonde to investigate the murder and find the criminal.

Our read · RRRrrrr!!! (2004) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · parody entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want absurd French caveman parody battling over shampoo and solving the first murder.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 6attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnudity

Skip it tonightSkip if silly prehistoric anachronisms or full French subtitles sound exhausting.

If RRRrrrr!!! is your film
Caveman (1981)
Ringo Starr prehistoric tribe comedy with dumb physical gags
(if you want French verbal wit over American)
The Flintstones (1994)
stone-age modern life parody with big dumb set pieces
(unless you prefer live-action over animation)
Encino Man (1992)
frozen caveman thawed into modern absurdity and teen comedy
(unless 90s high-school framing feels dated)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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