Thanks for the memories!

Good concept, poorly executed.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I remembered some of the titles from my childhood and watched them in the recent times. Seems it is a long list and this film was one of those I came to know when I accidentally saw a poster of the film online. The experience is different when you watched in your childhood compared to watching the same film as a grown up. This is the story of a small Neanderthan clan that takes place around 35 thousand years ago in the Eurasian region. When they are finding a new home, they rescue a young girl named Ayla from another clan who lost her way after her mother died in the earthquake. The rest of the film is to focus her life as she's being different from the group, how she struggles to survive and the life ahead.The film was based on the first book in the 'Earth's Children' series. Sadly, no other sequels were made. I hope somebody to reboot this, because it seems so good story. The problem with this film was, it is not as rich as it should have been. I mean from the performances to the locations, all were average. If you compare it with the recent film '10,000 BC', we got technology now and I feel this is the right time to adapt the books to the screen. It should be very grand production, I hope my wish comes true in the near future.Maybe it was how the characters were designed, that's why the performances looked so dull. Particularly, the film characters do not need to express excessively. Because it might ruin the natural appeal like how the humans behaved at that time. So watching this film is like watching a documentary film and visiting the ancient cave sites, except there's a story in it. Less talking, but largely depended on sign language. So the subtitle helps us to understand the events. This is one of the rare kind and not that great, but definitely not a bad film as it was rated. I suggest it, but for the selected people.7/10

Prehistoric tale set in Stone Age about cavemen plenty of drama , adventures , thrilling events and speaking a special language and particular primitive movements . At a time in prehistory when Neanderthals shared the Earth with early Homo Sapiens , a band of cave-dwellers travels through uncharted landscapes towards an unknown territory , searching for caves to shelter themselves . During their quest , they encounter and battle various animals as buffalo , lion , wolves and tribesmen in order to survive . Iza (Pamela Reed), Medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" meets little Ayla from the "other"'s clan ; the little girl loses her parents , Ayla is taken in by after her own parents are disappeared , tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately , but the Medicine women insists on keeping her . Iza as a primitive gamine adopts blond and blue-eyed Ayla , the lost child of the "Others" . As it results out later , she's a bright girl , but has a hard time to keep her place in a clan with different habits . As the scrawny cavegirl named Ayla (a gorgeous primitive babe played by Daryl Hannah) matures into a young woman of spirit and courage , being helped by Creg (James Remar) , she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of Broud (Thomas G Waites) , who will one day be clan chief .This interesting film about primitive humans contains drama , emotions , fights and is pretty entertaining . Ponderous and sometimes slow-moving , the picture failed at box office , however , nowadays being better considered . Based on Jean M. Auel's popular novel with screenplay by prestigious John Sayles , there is minimal narration ; subtitles translate the Neanderthal gestures and primitive spoken language . A planned back-to-back sequel never made it into production . Emotive musical score by Alan Silvestri , though composed by synthesizer . Colorful and brilliant cinematography by Jan De Bont , subsequently become filmmaker . The motion picture was well realized by Michael Chapman . Chapman is deemed one of the best cameraman of cinema , he photographed a lot of successes such as ¨Evolution¨ , ¨Primal fear¨, ¨The fugitive¨, ¨Rising sun¨, ¨Ghostbusters II¨, ¨Shoot to kill¨ and masterpieces for Martin Scorsese as ¨Raging Bull¨, ¨Last Walz¨, Taxi driver¨ . He occasionally directed some films as ¨The viking sagas¨, ¨All the right moves¨ and this ¨The clan of bear cave¨.Other films dealing with cavemen are the following : ¨One million B.C. ¨(1940) by Hal Roach with Victor Mature and Carole Landis ; ¨One million years B.C.¨ by Don Chaffey with Rachel Welch and John Richardson ; ¨!0.000 B.C.¨ by Roland Emmerich with Steven Strait and Camilla Belle ; and the best is ¨Quest of fire¨ by Jean Jacques Annaud with Everett McGill and Ron Perlman .

This film was shot in a remote part of a beautiful park in Southern British Columbia, Canada. That's the good part. The premiss of the film is that at some point Neanderthals and Cro- magnons must have encountered each other and interbred. There is now DNA evidence that this happened approx 100,000 years ago, likely in several places, perhaps including Southern Europe and Southern Turkey. Unfortunately the tale that the film tells is about a young woman (the Cro-Magnon) who plays a headstrong righteous person seeking emancipation at the hands of tyrants and an oppressive culture. The development is painfully slow, people communicate through the kind of hand signals and repeated utterances, as you might see in Mexico while watching stupid tourists. Darryl Hanna is easy to look at but boring otherwise. Her repertoire consists of cliché movements and faces. In short, it's a combination of bad entertainment and an awful documentary.

I was very surprised that this was so low rated. Over the years I had ignored this feature due to ratings. I have just finished rereading the book and felt " Let's give it a shot ". Was well worth the investment and I recommend it to any fan of the books.The adherence to the book's story line was excellent considering the limited time. also the 3 AYLSs were very good. Admittedly the Cro Magnon clan looked more like a group of good old boys but were acceptable. Creb, Brun and Broud were very good and maybe should have been nominated. I must admit that I would now love to visit British Columbia where this was filmed but alas age will preclude this . The location is stunning and feels right.