Year One

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Year One

PG-13,

2009,

1h 37m,

Comedy/

Adventure

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14%

168 Reviews

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250,000+ Ratings

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After Neanderthal hunter Zed (Jack Black) is exiled for eating forbidden fruit, he and his sardonic buddy Oh (Michael Cera) leave their village and begin an epic journey through history. The pals encounter biblical characters such as Cain (David Cross) and Abel, Abraham (Hank Azaria), and others, and wind up in Sodom. Along the way, Zed debunks commonly held beliefs and replaces them with his own delusions of grandeur.

Critics Consensus

Year One is a poorly executed, slapdash comedy in which the talent both in front of and behind the camera never seem to be on the same page.

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Deborah Ross

The Spectator

Aug 29, 2018

All in all, this is a sloppy, unoriginal, brain-dead mess that can't even be bothered to get itself out of trouble.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Jan 5, 2010

1/5

What's even more depressing than the never-ending stream of sub-sixth-grade toilet humor is the sad fact that Year One is helmed and co-produced by two of the best laughmeisters in the business.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Jan 5, 2010

Creatively it's a giant step backwards, with Jack Black and Michael Cera playing to the kids as inept hunter-gatherers who stumble across various Old Testament characters.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Sep 4, 2023

1.5/4

A dreary, groan-inducing comedy that fails to be funny or entertaining under even the most lenient terms.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Nov 29, 2020

5/10

It may go slightly beyond the blueprints for a formulaic parody movie, but it has all the same symptoms.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Aug 31, 2020

1.0/4.0

Year One relies almost solely upon bawdy, sophomoric humor.

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Poe G

Apr 21, 2019

I really do not understand the negative reviews here.. This movie is hilarious. Comedy is definitely subjective, but this movie must be too simple for everyone looking for maybe something more hard hitting on religion? Idk, shits funny, but you people probably think SNL is entertaining so your lack of understanding real humor makes sense.

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Kylo S

Apr 8, 2019

All the big comedic names in the world couldn't save this massive dud. The plot was a ridiculous, stupid, low-brow concept dug out of aging compost. The script was devoid of any great lines or comedy; offering us terrible dialogue and sickening toilet humor. Behind the scenes, it was clear that no one was having fun working on this project. They really should have burned the screenplay and abandoned the idea altogether. Completely unbearable!

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Jan 1, 2019

One of the most underrated comedy I have seen on here as of yet. Come on people get it together. Apparently people don't know what's funny looks like anymore.

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George W

Dec 29, 2018

Hands down the worst movie I've ever seen. Such a strong comedy cast completely squandered on horribly executed, mistimed, obvious jokes.

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Ron R

Dec 24, 2018

It is a movie thats plot relies to much on children humor and needs to have some humor with more meaning

Poe L

Oct 20, 2018

The only thing good about this movie was Jack Black's hair

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Harold Ramis

Director

Jack Black

Zed

Michael Cera

Oh

Oliver Platt

High Priest

David Cross

Cain

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Isaac

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Synopsis

After Neanderthal hunter Zed (Jack Black) is exiled for eating forbidden fruit, he and his sardonic buddy Oh (Michael Cera) leave their village and begin an epic journey through history. The pals encounter biblical characters such as Cain (David Cross) and Abel, Abraham (Hank Azaria), and others, and wind up in Sodom. Along the way, Zed debunks commonly held beliefs and replaces them with his own delusions of grandeur.

Director: Harold Ramis
Producer: Harold Ramis, Judd Apatow, Clayton Townsend
Screenwriter: Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Production Co: Ocean Pictures, Apatow Company, Columbia Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Comic Violence|Brief Strong Language|Crude and Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 19, 2009, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $43.3M
Runtime: 1h 37m

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