Masterful Movie

A Brilliant Conflict

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

CAVEGIRL is an awful concoction mixing the usual '80s high school comedy hijinks with a Stone Age adventure. The main character is an overweight creepy guy who enjoys spying on women, and he ends up being transported back to prehistoric times by a secret military experiment. There he meets and falls in love with a beautiful blonde cave girl and the two have various adventures as they evade grizzly bears and cannibal tribes.This really is hopeless, barrel scraping stuff, and yet there's a little of the so-bad-it's-good vibe going on. The script is hilariously awful, and the whole thing has generally been made to show off breasts, although there's not as much nudity as you'd expect given the set-up. Daniel Roebuck (THE RIVER'S EDGE) is awful as the uncharismatic lead, although buxom starlet Cindy Ann Thompson (NOT OF THIS EARTH) is a little better as the vacuous cave girl and at least gets into the spirit of the thing.Everywhere the paucity of the budget is apparent, with rubbish fur bikinis and a general cheap-looking shooting style out in a quarry somewhere. Absolutely nothing that happens in it is any good or indeed memorable, and yet maybe that's part of the charm. ONE MILLION YEARS BC this ain't!

1st watched 9/13/2014 – 3 out of 10 (Dir-David Oliver): *review based on 85 minute VHS version* Goofy back in time teen sex comedy attempt about a high school student, played by Daniel Roebuck, who is fond of the prehistoric times but looked at as a geek to the girls. The class takes a field trip to a mine and the combination of a glowing crystal and a mistaken government missile test hitting the cave amazingly transports the student – Rex – to the cave people times. A sexy young cave girl, played by Cindy Ann Thompson, wakes him up the next morning and he spends the next half hour of the movie trying to have sex with her while they teach each other their languages. There are a couple of slightly funny scenes – one particular one where the cave men try to destroy a flashlight, and a slight chuckle occurs when Rex asks the cavegirl to sit on his face - juvenile humor, of course, but brought an unexpected response from me. We get to see plenty of Cindy Ann's gorgeous body, but besides this there isn't much else worthwhile to get from this movie. It is a blatant attempt by Crown Pictures to pander to the teen audience even though the movie is Rated "R" with the theatrical trailer showing all of the nude scenes!! This is typical of the 80's where the titillation takes center stage and the movie falls flat on it's face…skip this one unless you're interested in Cindy Ann.

This movie really is the pits and is deservedly shown on 'Bad Movie Night' and other film channels of a similar ilk. What was David Oliver thinking when he constructed this mess? Judging by how much he contributed towards the production of this film, I think he wanted to be the next Orson Welles but he's more like the next Ed Wood! Luckily, Oliver realised the errors of his ways and quit the film business.The plot had potential at some point. When you think about California Man and how funny some of the cultural clash jokes in that were, this could have been an inverted alternative. Alas, this was not the case and sadly the audience are subjected to an awful, bumbling romance between Roebuck and Thompson whilst the other cave people, mildly amusing at first, simply get really tiresome. I have to admit, Cavegirl did, unintentionally, have me laughing at some points at how bad everything was and how the plot went from bad to worst but this is not good comedy! Time travel is such an imaginative and brilliant concept when done well (see Back to the Future and Terminator) but Cavegirl is embarrassing and lacks any excitement.The acting is laughable. Roebuck and Thompson have the only two proper roles and both are awful. Thompson is OK before she starts learning English but then she gets very bad, very quickly. This was her only starring role and was subsequently relegated to playing #2 hooker in her final film before quiting. Roebuck is remarkably even worse, yet, somehow has carved out a fairly respectable career for himself. When he got blown up in Lost, I think that was redemption for this turkey! His performance is charmless and devoid of any talent.The worst film I have ever seen and the only film I've seen that has no redeeming features whatsoever, avoid Cavegirl at all costs unless you are a bad movie fan or there's a big group of people who can all join in on the mockery.

This movie actually starts out with some laughter as high school antics ridicule a nerd. After 10 minutes the film takes a whole different route and time period. The nerd travels back in time and encounters prehistoric cavemen and cavewomen. Instead of giant reptiles which is standard for this type of film we only see a bear and a mountain lion. Did not know that they were in the dinosaur times. When producers of a film do not want to spend any money this is what you end up with.