Hollywood Product: Year One
June 18, 2009 at 12:00 pm by Debbie Michaud in Hollywood Product
FUZZY NAVELS: Zed (Jack Black, left) and Oh (Michael Cera)
GENRE: Cavecore buddy comedy
THE PITCH: Director Harold Ramis and producer Judd Apatow pit hunter Zed (Jack Black) and gatherer Oh (Michael Cera) against the ancient world. After Zed tastes the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, the pair embarks on a quest to find the meaning of life, and rescue a couple of bangin’ cave chicks.
MONEY SHOTS: Oh’s staccato gyrations during the “Jackal Dance” at the village campfire. A cougar pounces on a terrified Oh from a low-hanging branch. Zed gets bucked off of one of Abel’s (Paul Rudd) cows. A bolt of lightning strikes Cain (David Cross) smack dab on his forehead, Harry Potter style. The gold-plated, virgin-filled orgy, soundtracked by a freestyling Jack Black in Sodom’s lavish palace. Zed topples some rickety scaffolding in a human version of Mouse Trap, inadvertently starting a riot.
BEST LINE: “This is my son and we’re playing a game … burny burny cut cut,” says Abraham (Hank Azaria) when caught holding a knife over a bound-and-gagged Isaac atop a pyre (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, aka Superbad’s McLovin).
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(Photo by Suzanne Hanover/2009 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.)
June 18th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
From the looks of it this film is getting owned on Rotten Tomatoes, their giving it a lower percentage than Land of the Lost… eek
I still feel like I need to see it just from watching the trailer at http://www.yovia.com/blogs/timlara
June 18th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Oof. You’re right. I haven’t seen LOL, and granted, this is no Monty Python-esque masterpiece, but i still laughed way more than i thought would.