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Year One
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Year One (2009) -- When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Black and Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
Year One (2009) -- Zed and Oh get stoned.
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Harold Ramis (screenplay) &
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Release Date:
19 June 2009 (USA) more
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Meet your ancestors more
Plot:
Zed, a prehistoric would-be hunter, eats from a tree of forbidden fruit and is banished from his tribe... more | add synopsis
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Year One is painfully awful... I'm not kidding, this movie physically hurt! more (146 total)

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Also Known As:
The Year One (USA) (working title)
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Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, brief strong language and comic violence. (edited; originally Rated R for some sexual content and language.)
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97 min | 100 min (unrated version)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Stanley Tucci was cast to play the Biblical character Noah. After Evan Almighty (2007) failed at the box-office, Noah was cut from the film. more
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Continuity: When Oh is rubbing oil on the high priest, the priest pulls Oh back and forth. When he talks to Eema, he is standing still. more
Quotes:
Zed: Hey, I'm peeing on my face too. On the inside. more
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Referenced in "Jeopardy!: (#26.84)" (2010) more
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Desert Roots more

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120 out of 225 people found the following review useful.
Year One is painfully awful... I'm not kidding, this movie physically hurt!, 20 June 2009
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Author: Kristine (kristinedrama14@msn.com) from Chicago, Illinois

Jack Black and Michael Cera playing themselves, yeah, where was that even considered funny? Now I absolutely adore these actors, Michael was a great choice in Superbad and Juno and Jack Black has proved he can do great comedy like Tropic Thunder and a good dramatic role like King Kong, even a more calm character like he played in The Holiday. But the main problem? They have no chemistry! You have this wild outgoing maniac who is eating poop(eeeew!) and the calm awkward overly shy nerd who pees on himself(eeew!) and what do you have? Every elementary school joke that could be put into a movie, Year One could have been written by a five year old and proves that top list actors will do anything for those millions that they make.

Jack Black and Michael Cera headline Harold Ramis' Biblical comedy about a pair of misfit hunter-gatherers who embark on a wild journey through the ancient world after being banished from their primitive village. Zed and Oh may lack in the skills that their chieftain is looking for, but they have plans to make it big. Zed has a gut feeling that God has "chosen" him, and so he leads his buddy on a trip through the unknown countryside in search of bigger and better things, bumping into several weird characters along the way -- like a feuding pair of brothers named Cain and Abel. Unfortunately, their quest for greatness hits a few snags, like being sold into slavery, and later becoming the object of interest to a very amorous, very hairy high priest in the opulent city of Sodom.

You have to understand, I wanted to love this movie, from the minute that I saw the trailer, I thought this was going to be such a great movie, but once again they showed all the funny parts in the trailer. During the movie I fell asleep and my boyfriend tried to wake me up and I said "OMG, I was dreaming that I was watching this movie where Jack Black and Michael Cera think that they're funny… oh, no, just let me sleep". Seriously, this movie was beyond painfully bad, I don't understand how anybody could find this kind of humor funny. Year One has everything that should equal a good comedy and that was the funny cast, but thanks to the bad direction and awful concept, Year One falls completely flat. Stay as far away from this trash as you can, this film should be used only to torture possible terrorists into telling the US where they hide their nuclear weapons.

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Juno Temple alone pumps this movie from a 6 to a 10 Locstar1
Did non-religious people get the jokes? leiastarkiller
The way it SHOULD have ended..... eleven7
Never gonna trust IMDB ratings again... cldprxy
Michael Cera gotta be one of the most annoying actors ever khazzler
Eating crap + farting in bed... that did it for me. aronsonstack
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