| | | Meet Your Ancestors
Features: DVD, Unrated, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Spanish, Dubbed & Subtitled
History was made...by these guys? Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) are cavemen who stumble out of the mountains into an epic journey of biblical proportions. One's a bumbling hunter, the other's a gentle gatherer; together, they become unlikely participants in history's most pivotal moments. Directed and co-written by comedy legend Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, Analyze This), Year One is rude, crude, wildly absurd, deliciously tasteless and laugh-out-loud funny!
"A thoroughly, sometimes gaggingly broad and sly conceptual laugh-in." Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"...very funny comedy." Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Editor's Note
This comedy blends the old-school talent of director Harold Ramis with the new millennium hit-making prowess of producer Judd Apatow. YEAR ONE stars Apatow collaborator Michael Cera and funnyman Jack Black as men who are banished from their ancient village, causing them to travel across the world.
| Features | Alternate Ending- Sodom Destruction | | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Commentary for Alternate Ending with Director Harold Ramis, Jack Black,and Michael Cera | | Commentary with Director Harold Ramis, Jack Black,and Michael Cera | | Dubbed: French | | Extended & Alternate Scenes | | Gag Reel | | Includes Both Original Theatrical & Unrated Extended Versions Of The Film! | | Interactive Menus | | Leeroy Jenkins: The Gates of Sodom | | Line-O-Rama | | Scene Selection | | Sodom's Got 'Em! | | Subtitles: English, French | | Unrated Commentary with Director Harold Ramis, Jack Black, and Michael Cera | | Year One: The Journey Begins |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Year One - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 9/25/2009 8:08 PM | |
There have always been two contradictory versions of Harold Ramis, director. One creates classic comedies like Caddyshack, Vacation, and Groundhog Day. The other delivers glorified junk, feeble funny business like Club Paradise, Multiplicity, and the Analyze This/That films. Granted, the SCTV alum can only be as effective as the material he's working with, but someone with his sense of humor should be a better judge of same. So it comes as some surprise that his latest big screen effort, Year One, is so oddly uneven. On the one hand, it's a quasi-clever spoof of the big budget Biblical epic. Yet within such grand intentions, very little actual humor can be found....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 10/6/2009 |
| Running Time: 197 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2009 | | UPC: 00043396330801 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"[T]he film brings to mind a Hope and Crosby road movie....Filling Hope and Crosby's clown shoes nicely in YEAR ONE are Jack Black and Michael Cera as Paleolithic tribesmen." 06/19/2009Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
Harold Ramis is one of the nicest people I've met in the movie business, and I'm so sorry Year One happened to him. I'm sure he had the best intentions. In trying to explain why the movie was produced, I have a theory. Ramis is the top-billed of the film's three writers, and he is so funny that when he read some of these lines, they sounded hilarious. Pity he didn't play one of the leads in his own film...As always, I carefully avoided any of the film's trailers, but I couldn't avoid the posters or the ads. "Meet Your Ancestors," they said, with big photos of Jack Black and Michael Cera. I assumed it was about Adam and Eve. Cera has smooth, delicate features, and with curly locks falling below his shoulders, I thought: Michael Cera in drag. I wonder where Harold will take that?...That and several other of the film's better moments are in the trailer, of which it can be said, if they were removed from the film, it would be nearly bereft of better moments. The movie takes place in the land now known as Israel, although no one does much with that. The Sodomites include in their number Abraham, Cain and Abel; it's surprising to find them still in action in the Year One, since Genesis places them -- well, before the time of Genesis. Sodomy is not very evident in Sodom, perhaps as a result of the movie being shaved down from an R to a PG-13...The film has shaggy crowds that mill about like outtakes from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and human sacrifice in which virgins are pitched into the blazing mouth of a stone ox, and a cheerful turn when the gods more appreciate a high priest than a virgin. But Year One is a dreary experience, and all the ending accomplishes is to bring it to a close. Even in the credit cookies, you don't sense the actors having much fun. - Roger Ebert
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