review: year one
20th-jun-2009 - posted by dtra
another week, another judd apatow film, this week, it was year one, starring jack black and michael cera, but this week, i managed to stay awake for the whole thing. based sometime in biblical times i guess, it follows jack black ( saw kung fu panda while i was away btw, cute film i guess, but has some awesome 3d graphics) and michael cera as they screw up and leave their caveman dwellings in search of new lives. first, they run into cain (played by tobias fmor arrested development) and abel, then into abraham (hank azaria, this is apu people) and isaac. after hearing stories of sodom and gamorrah, they decide to journey there, and along the way, they see that "their" ladies have been taken prisoner and promise to rescue them.
that's enough of the plot, it's a comedy of course, and both actors play their (almost) typecast roles, jack black as this big mouth bullshit artist, and michael cera as a nerdy underling. of course they do it well, that's why they keep getting these roles. a bunch of other cameos from other actors that have been in a bunch of apatow films before as well. on a scale of dtra's comedy rankings, i'd put it somewhere along the lines of maybe "starsky and hutch", maybe a bit lower. but it was a good film, and worth watching, and as my friend ozzy said, we can probably expect a year two, and year three, if they garner enough success. oh, and there are some funny bloopers in the credits.
pic taken from wikipedia.
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