
Zed, a prehistoric would-be hunter, eats from a tree of forbidden fruit and is banished from his tribe, accompanied by Oh, a shy gatherer. On their travels, they meet Cain and Abel on a fateful day, stop Abraham from killing Isaac, become slaves, and reach the city of Sodom where their tribe is now enslaved. Zed and Oh are determined to rescue the women they love, Maya and Eema. Standing in their way is Sodom's high priest and the omnipresent Cain. Zed tries to form an allian... (Full plot summary below)
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Zed, a prehistoric would-be hunter, eats from a tree of forbidden fruit and is banished from his tribe, accompanied by Oh, a shy gatherer. On their travels, they meet Cain and Abel on a fateful day, stop Abraham from killing Isaac, become slaves, and reach the city of Sodom where their tribe is now enslaved. Zed and Oh are determined to rescue the women they love, Maya and Eema. Standing in their way is Sodom's high priest and the omnipresent Cain. Zed tries to form an alliance with Princess Innana, which may backfire. Can an inept hunter and a smart but slender and diffident gatherer become heroes and make a difference?
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| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenJack Black plays Bud Abbott to Michael Cera's Lou Costello in a movie about as relevant to today's audiences as the Abbott and Costello Show. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekNot much more than another raunchy, adolescent boys-out-on-the-town farrago, even if the boys are dressed in animal skins and the town is Sodom. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldMostly Year One moves along ploddingly, stepping frequently into bathroom humor and never quite funny enough to justify its high concept; when it's over, it quickly slips away. |
| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanTargeting with surgical precision the teenage market with a keenly juvenile sense of humour, Year One brings together every manner of silliness that can be crammed into the concept. |
| HitFixDrew McWeeny... a near-total disappointment... it never manages to sustain any momentum from joke to joke or scene to scene or even shot to shot at times. |
| Mania.comRob VauxRamis seems paralyzed from the get-go, ineptly grappling with an overgrown Saturday Night Live routine that squanders every chance at clever humor it gets. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordHarold 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 turns from Cera and a game Oliver Platt |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleYear One has one joke, but it's a good one, played for many variations over the course of an often very funny comedy. |
| The New York TimesManohla DargisA thoroughly, sometimes gaggingly broad and sly conceptual laugh-in. |
| Spectrum (St. George, Utah)Bruce BennettEven more embarrassing considering the talent involved. Where art thou Monty Python? |