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List Price: $28.96 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 9109
Released: October 6, 2009 |
| Our Price: $17.00 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: PG13
Street Date: 10/06/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
Description of Year One (Theatrical Edition):
Director Harold Ramis leans away from the Groundhog Day side of his personality and toward the Caddyshack side with Year One, a broad comedy set in more-or-less ancient times. The film's cockeyed timeline puts two wandering cavemen (Jack Black and Michael Cera) through a rapid-fire series of biblical events: Cain (David Cross) slaying Abel (Paul Rudd), Abraham (Hank Azaria) preparing to smite his son Isaac (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), and everybody converging on Sodom, the Genesis equivalent of Las Vegas. The jokes range from droll religious references to Apatow-ready testicular gags, but almost all of the real humor comes from the efforts of the performers to put things across. Black and Cera couldn't be more different in their styles, but each manages to conjure up some laughs just by working in his particular vein: one can appreciate Black's exuberant extrovert pouncing all over the material like a needy Golden Retriever and also savor Cera's muttering wallflower as he flicks in his sidelong observations. Azaria and Oliver Platt are given very long leashes--they know what to do with that kind of room--and Ramis himself plays a mighty-bearded Adam, but it's all not quite enough to prevent Year One from falling into that hard-luck zone with Caveman and Wholly Moses: one more comedy that suggests the ancient world wasn't really all that funny. --Robert Horton
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Year One (Theatrical Edition) Reviews:
SUUUhhhhCKK! 
2009-12-10 - This movie is an F-...click. It did NOT pass the friendship test.
it's just a sea of mediocre lame time sensitive jokes that MAYBE evoke a chuckle.
a BIG waste of money, jack should just focus on School of Rock 2 and writing more Tenacious D material.
glad I got this free in a package deal with my Sony Bravia.
This one goes in for sale or trade ASAP
Great Cast-Funny Movie 
2009-12-06 - Year One brings to the screen the story of two members of a Palaeolithic tribe, a hunter and a gatherer, who become outcasts after their respective performances are rated as below average by the community's leaders. What follows is a journey across biblical realms and meetings with some rather interesting characters, all the while producing more than a fair share of laughs. Strangely enough, Year One at times brings to mind the Asterix movies...
Don't look for the movie to make much sense; it doesn't and it's not supposed to.
Jack Black, Michael Cera, June Raphael, Juno Temple, Hank Azaria, Oliver Platt, Paul Rudd, Vinnie Jones, the lovely Olivia Wilde (from House MD!), and the rest of the cast carry out their performances very well.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues, the special effects, and the music are all good, while the option of viewing a rated and/or unrated version in conjunction with the alternate ending and the rest of the extra features push it over the top. In a nutshell, though it's probably not a movie you would want to add to your collection, it will definitely provide for an evening's entertainment. 4.5 Stars
Ordered HD thru TV service, got lower than SD quality
2009-12-06 - This is not a review of the movie as much as a review of the Amazon Video on Demand service available thru our hdtv. We rented this movie as advertised in HD, in the HD part of the catalog, but the picture quality was abysmal. It was less than SD by a long stretch; it was below web streaming quality. I have watched other Amazon Video on Demand HD TV shows, so, I know it is capable of HD, but this was not it.
As to the movie itself, it was pretty lame. And it wasn't due to the video quality. Normally, when in the mood, I can laugh heartily at a funny Jack Black role, or an Apatow production. This just wasn't that funny. Also, the setting of randomly sewn together moments through history, kept distracting me from the movie and un-suspending my suspension of disbelief. The sappy, sincere turn at the end really didn't seem believable given the rest of the movie that came before it.
Funny with sublte insight
2009-11-30 - A great movie with hilarious moments: Jack Black and Michael Cera do a wonderful job and are very entertaining. There is religious humor which is why I think people rate it without giving it a fair shot, also people may miss the deeper subtleties because they are quick to judge.
Black is the Shining Star 
2009-11-30 - YEAR ONE is a hard movie to watch. The only basis for it's comedic material is broad generalizations and stereotypes; many of which are lame and dull. If there is one good part of this movie, it is Jack Black. Once again, he manages to bring his own sense of humor and style into an otherwise dry movie.
YEAR ONE is a mindless 'comedy', that should only be seen if want to intentionally see a bad movie.
