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Dir: Harold Ramis.
Cast: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Vinnie Jones, Hank Azaria, Juno Temple
Description: Pelt-clad primitives Zed and Oh are extremely lazy and don't pull their weight like the other men in their village. Zed cannot master his bow and arrow and is a pitiful hunter while dimwit Oh fails to fulfil his duties as a gatherer. Nor can he turn the head of the object of his affections, Eema. Inevitably, the friends are banished from the tribe and Zed and Oh embark on an epic quest through an ancient world where man is nowhere near the top of the food chain. When the villagers are held captive by a rival civilisation, the friends orchestrate a daring rescue mission using everything they have learnt.
Country: US. 2009. 96mins
Primitive desires: Olivia Wilde and Jack Black
Harold Ramis’s biblical comedy has Jack Black and Michael Cera as Zed and Oh, a couple of daft Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers who are chucked out of their village for insubordination and set off on a road trip through the ancient world.
They arrive, rather surprisingly, in Sodom just as a virgin is about to sacrificed because of a lack of rain and lock horns with Hank Azaria’s Abraham (a dead ringer for George C Scott’s Patton), David Cross as Cain and Oliver Pratt as a weight-challenged high priest.
There are various scrumptious girls including June Raphael, Olivia Wilde and Juno Temple in skunk pelts and primitive disco boots to inspire them, and we discover that the men are both virgins themselves — though not very appetising examples.
“At a certain point we put the research down and began to make up our own rules,” says Jefferson Sage, the production designer.
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It’s amazing to learn they did any research at all — unless it was into farting and foreskins.
The whole is on-off funny but best when it adds contemporary attitudes to the ancient world.
Wit occasionally gets a look-in but it isn’t often, while Black’s ebullient over-playing and Cera’s nervy wimpishness make a partnership that often seems about to make you laugh.
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