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Year One is a poorly executed, slapdash comedy in which the talent both in front of and behind the camera never seem to be on the same page.
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Creatively it's a giant step backwards, with Jack Black and Michael Cera playing to the kids as inept hunter-gatherers who stumble across various Old Testament characters. Jan 5, 2010 | Full Review…
Creatively it's a giant step backwards, with Jack Black and Michael Cera playing to the kids as inept hunter-gatherers who stumble across various Old Testament characters.
J. R. Jones
'Year One' wants to be seen as a freeform, knockabout trawl through Biblical history, perfect for an undemanding Saturday night. There are only two problems: it's kind of dull and just isn't funny. Jul 3, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
'Year One' wants to be seen as a freeform, knockabout trawl through Biblical history, perfect for an undemanding Saturday night. There are only two problems: it's kind of dull and just isn't funny.
Tom Huddlestone
All hail Michael Cera, worker of unprecedented movie miracles! The 21-year-old Canadian comic takes a weak concept and some weaker material and, wherever possible, adds some much needed flashes of comedic genius. Jul 3, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
All hail Michael Cera, worker of unprecedented movie miracles! The 21-year-old Canadian comic takes a weak concept and some weaker material and, wherever possible, adds some much needed flashes of comedic genius.
Kevin Maher
Too silly to be smart, too timid to be subversive about religion - it's hard to believe it's directed and co-written by the once great Harold Ramis Jul 3, 2009 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Too silly to be smart, too timid to be subversive about religion - it's hard to believe it's directed and co-written by the once great Harold Ramis
Cosmo Landesman
This gambit is a catastrophic failure. Cera's loveable puppy-dog schtick is already tired, and Black can no longer carry a dud with likeability and energy alone. As for Ramis, well, perhaps he's not the Messiah after all. Jul 3, 2009 | Rating: 1/5
This gambit is a catastrophic failure. Cera's loveable puppy-dog schtick is already tired, and Black can no longer carry a dud with likeability and energy alone. As for Ramis, well, perhaps he's not the Messiah after all.
James Bramble
A goodhearted, sometimes funny spoof of early human history. Jul 3, 2009 | Full Review…
A goodhearted, sometimes funny spoof of early human history.
Nigel Andrews
Year One buckles at the first bad gag and it's downhill from there. Oct 30, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Year One buckles at the first bad gag and it's downhill from there.
Nikki Baughan
Unfortunately, all the talent doesn't translate on the screen. Sure, there are a few mildly amusing moments (most coming courtesy of Cera), but for the most part Year One was one big dud. May 15, 2019 | Rating: D | Full Review…
Unfortunately, all the talent doesn't translate on the screen. Sure, there are a few mildly amusing moments (most coming courtesy of Cera), but for the most part Year One was one big dud.
Micheal Compton
Considering Year One is likely to flop, there's little point in giving it the benefit of controversy by protesting too much. Oct 9, 2018 | Full Review…
Considering Year One is likely to flop, there's little point in giving it the benefit of controversy by protesting too much.
Megan Basham
All in all, this is a sloppy, unoriginal, brain-dead mess that can't even be bothered to get itself out of trouble. Aug 29, 2018 | Full Review…
All in all, this is a sloppy, unoriginal, brain-dead mess that can't even be bothered to get itself out of trouble.
Deborah Ross
In the beginning there was light, which was closely followed by the fart joke. Oct 21, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
In the beginning there was light, which was closely followed by the fart joke.
Simon Miraudo
Stretched painfully thin to feature length, it's a concept that's gestated for 34 years but hasn't evolved a microbe. It also proves that the Harold Ramis of '09 has nothing on the Harold Ramis of '75. Sep 29, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Stretched painfully thin to feature length, it's a concept that's gestated for 34 years but hasn't evolved a microbe. It also proves that the Harold Ramis of '09 has nothing on the Harold Ramis of '75.
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