1994 · fantasy · comedy · family
The Flintstones
Directed by Brian Levant1h 31m1994
Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred helps Barney adopt a child. Barney sees an opportunity to repay him when Slate Mining tests its employees to find a new executive. But no good deed goes unpunished.
Our read: The Flintstones (1994) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive fantasy · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle fantasy / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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