Caveman

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Caveman

PG,

1981,

1h 32m,

Comedy

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Atouk (Ringo Starr) is the leader of a small band of misfit cavemen who are part of a larger community headed by strongman Tonda (John Matuszak). Atouk is madly in love with Tonda's woman, Lana (Barbara Bach). He even ignores the advances of the lovely Tala (Shelley Long) and sets his mind to finding some way of wooing Lana. During Atouk's quest for romance, he and his cohorts fend off dinosaurs, indulge in hallucinogens and invent cooking, music and medicine.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Oct 23, 2004

1.5/4

It has a basic problem, which is that there is no popular original material for it to satirize.

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

Aug 30, 2004

3.5/5

All of this is handled ingeniously enough to let the movie feel colorful and whole, though it could so easily have been nothing but farfetched.

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John Lapsley

The Sun-Herald (Australia)

May 4, 2023

1.5/4

Ringo Starr may have received deification in being a Beatle, and Barbara Bach may have been one of the more spectacular Bond beauties. But they, and the rest of the cast... are a long chalk short of the necessary skills.

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Bill Warren

Starburst

Jul 27, 2022

Caveman is... fresh, inventive, and genuinely funny.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Jul 17, 2021

4/5

...one of the most free-wheeling comedies you've probably never seen, check out Caveman or remain in the stone age forever....there’s some terrific, anything-goes comedy here...

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John Ferguson

Radio Times

Sep 10, 2020

3/5

Ringo Starr is perfectly cast as a hapless cave-dweller in an endearingly stupid prehistoric romp that introduced a couple of future stars to the world.

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Poe P

Feb 26, 2019

Ah, the years before political correctness murdered comedy in film and TV. The whole cast was funny as hell in this. =)

Anakin R

Dec 26, 2018

A very underrated film. It is almost campy and funny in a relateable way, even though it is almost 40. The humour is rarely dirty, even so, there are a few adult situations. They should go over the heads of children under 12. The content is original and even the dinosaurs have their own funny personalities. Totally worth a watch!

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Hagrid S

Sep 5, 2018

Somewhat silly yet amusing comedy starring Ringo!

Han S

Jul 4, 2018

Caveman is a disappointing film. It is about a cave-man who seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cave-woman. Ringo Starr and Dennis Quaid give horrible performances. The script is badly written. Carl Gottlieb did a terrible job directing this movie. I was not impressed with motion picture.

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Draco R

May 17, 2018

I'm watching this on the terrestrial channel Charge TV at 2 am. Clearly Shelley Long, Dennis Quaid, & Ringo Starr have been in better films (Well, I dunno about Ringo; I can't figure out any good movies he's done that wasn't Beatles cinema.) The film is just too damn corny & thus only makes me cringe rather than LOL. On the bright side this was the film where Starr met Barbara Bach, who've been married since.

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Sep 13, 2017

I love this movie, i can watch it over and over! Great fun!

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Carl Gottlieb

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Ringo Starr

Atouk

Barbara Bach

Lana

John Matuszak

Tonda

Dennis Quaid

Lar

Shelley Long

Tala

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Synopsis

Atouk (Ringo Starr) is the leader of a small band of misfit cavemen who are part of a larger community headed by strongman Tonda (John Matuszak). Atouk is madly in love with Tonda's woman, Lana (Barbara Bach). He even ignores the advances of the lovely Tala (Shelley Long) and sets his mind to finding some way of wooing Lana. During Atouk's quest for romance, he and his cohorts fend off dinosaurs, indulge in hallucinogens and invent cooking, music and medicine.

Director: Carl Gottlieb
Producer: Lawrence Turman, David Foster
Screenwriter: Carl Gottlieb
Distributor: United Artists
Production Co: Turman-Foster Company, Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A.
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 17, 1981, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008
Runtime: 1h 32m

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