Caveman
Caveman
PG | 17 April 1981 (USA)
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Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of the tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside of his cave. Eventually he and friends Lar and Tala learn the secrets of fire, cooked meat, and how to defend themselves from the brutal, yet very stupid dinosaurs.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Stometer

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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Stellead

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

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Zandra

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Ana_Banana

I've just seen it for the first time and won't repeat the obvious (silliness, rubber dinosaurs, stage sets looking so artificial, simple plot, juvenile humor) - oh wait, didn't I just repeat that? Oh well, the pleasant surprise was the acting (in this, of all films), especially Ringo's (who would have thought of that?) and of course Shelley Long. Most of the actors were pretty expressive and as natural as they could in that zany spoof (except a few too well groomed hairdos). Even the simple plot is somehow telling with regard to the basic motivations lurking sometimes behind our fancy psyche. Maybe if they didn't want to make fools out of themselves, it all had indeed some potential of becoming a real, serious film about our ancestors' way of life.

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jessegehrig

A staple of TBS summer afternoons. A horrible movie which Ted Turner got his hooks into and played it constantly on his network. How many times have I seen this movie? Obviously too many times. Thank you TBS. Misguided. As in, making this movie was a MISGUIDED effort. People thought it would be funny- they were like 'hey Ringo Stars gonna be in it it will be groovy'. And you know what, Caveman is not groovy. Yeah, even with Ringo, not groovy. When you lose time, you can never get that back. That time is gone- whenever I watched Caveman I lost that time, it will never come back. These are our lives, unknown struggles to understand what cannot be.

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Mutakk

Bainless and silly, but with a few scattered laughs. The real "star" here are David Allen's stop-motion effects. He's no Ray Harryhausen, but the FX are more than competent. The acting isn't so great, though. Young Dennis Quaid tries, but Ringo and Shelley Long seem to be just walk through the movie, never really trying to get into the spirit of things. A few standout scenes though, most notably a caveman's charades about a recent dinosaur attack, and Ringo "inventing" rock & roll.Among the numerous scenes that simply fall flat, a caveman stepping in dinosaur poop and pronouncing, perfectly: "that's 5h!+." Woody Allen got away with spouting contemporary dialogue in ridiculous settings, like the Napolinac revolution, etc., because he actually made it funny. Mel Brooks did it a lot, failing almost every time. So did this director.Still, Caveman isn't a dog. It's certainly not Airplane with apes, but it's not Three Amigos either.

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Shaolin_Apu

Even if Ringo was perhaps not the most important member of his famous band, his career as an actor surpassed his former mates with a large point margin. There certainly have been better actors than he, but even so, seeing a familiar face on the screen makes watching the Caveman anyway a moderately attractive item at least. Most of the Stone Age films have been funny even if they were never made to be comedies: seeing animated puppet dinosaurs and listening to Stone Age people talking with silly grunts has usually proved to be too difficult task to perform properly, in case the film was meant to be taken seriously. Caveman does not suffer from this as it was already planned (if anything in it was actually 'planned') to be a goofy parody of ancient humans and their misfortunes. Caveman is content to make parody of a Stone Age film without being a too serious film; not everybody will find it a pleasure because there are no clever jokes at all. More demanding viewers should be warned of puerile humor Caveman has in large amounts, but if you were especially looking for it, try this without hesitation.

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