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A sandals 'n sleaze biblical romp where the humor is
so infantile that the movie title could be misread as referring
to the mental age of the writers, the comically redundant
Year One essentially sticks two contemporary characters
in ancient times to anachronistically fend for themselves
without a clue. And those occasionally inspired prehistorically
relocated one-liners soon wear as thin as a weathered Paleolithic
loincloth. Banished from their village and setting out on
foot in search of the end of the world are Michael Cera
as Oh and Zed (Jack Black), his raunchy other half. Cera
does a pubescent Woody Allen imitation, while Black's greatest
idiot in the village gross-out routine is just plain gross.
Cera's Oh endlessly frets about dying a virgin, while overly
flirty heathen Zed attempts to hunt and gather copious hairy
bodied babes who really know how to stroke their spears.***
After munching on a magic apple from The Tree Of Forbidden
Knowledge that bestows upon Zed the moronic messiah superpower
of seeing ten minutes into the future, the pair enter a
more advanced hamlet where they discover the wheel. But
they are soon forced to flee the hostile inhabitants, during
a slow motion oxen cart chase.***
Eventually the misunderstood nitwits gone native go
slumming around Sodom, become bought and sold sex slaves,
and encounter surprise circumcisions, virgins tossed into
fires, horny eunuchs, and premature feminists and lesbians.
With the comical high point presenting itself, when Cera
is hung upside down in a prison and resigns himse lf to
peeing through his collar. Fortunately for all, what happens
in Sodom stays in Sodom. Directed by Harold Ramis (Caddyshack,
Groundhog Day) and co-written by Ramis in league with Gene
Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg (NBC's The Office), this barbarian
buddy bonding sex spree is not helped at all with Black
and Cera in underwhelming mode and lackluster delivery.
Coupled with overly long biblical skits encumbered by modern
lingo, that never quite blends in.***
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Commentary with Director Harold Ramis, Jack Black,and
Michael Cera; Extended and Alternate Scenes; Line-O-Rama;
Year One: The Journey Begins Featurette; Gag Reel.***
Unrated Standard and Unrated Blu-Ray Extras: Unrated
Commentary with the Same Participants; Alternate Ending;
Featurettes: Sodom's Got 'Em!; Leeroy Jenkins: The Gates
of Sodom.
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