2009 · comedy · adventure
Year One
Directed by Harold Ramis1h 37m2009
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
Our read: Year One (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
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How Year One feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want dumb Jack Black caveman gags and don't mind biblical bathroom humor.”
Skip it tonight — Lowbrow historical spoof with circumcision jokes sounds like punishment, not entertainment.
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