If you combine the talents of Jack Black, who was brilliant in The School Of Rock. Michael Cera, who was brilliant in Juno. Paul Rudd who was brilliant in I Love You Man. Hank Azaria who was brilliant in Night At The Museum, and put them in a film which is co-written with two of the writers from the fantastic The Office USA and Harold Rammis who wrote and directed the amazing and clever (and very funny) iconic movie Groundhog Day, add to the fact he also co-wrote and stared in Ghostbusters 1 and 2 you should…in theory have a fantastic movie that should wipe all other comedies out of view.

Oh dear.

How wrong could you be?

As it turns out the answer is ‘very’.

PLOT- Two cavemen wander around and over act.

I’d seen the trailer a few times and could tell it was going to be rubbish, but for the sake of people saying “well if you haven’t seen the actual movie how do you know it’s bad”.
Well know I can be totally honest.

Given that I didn’t even bother to do a proper ‘plot’ section may give you some idea how I felt about this movie. To give it some credit I did smirk at a few lines that were said in the movie. But, I doubt the writers, cast and crew set out to make a movie that people just smirked at some bits.
The film is over long, washed with set ups for gags that filter away, and moves along at a slow pace. It’s shocking how this kind of talent in the movie was so badly used.
Jack Black must have of a bad day when he accepted to make this. I mean, the premise isn’t even that good. It’s not one of those movies where you go ‘oh the premise was good but the film was rubbish’ the whole thing was just an embarrassing mess. To give Black his credit he does try he best at the start, but when the film starts to deal with actual plot a messy script and bad adlibbing destroys any chance he has of coming out of this with his head held high. But, he gets of very lightly compared with his on screen side kick.
Michael Cera is crap.
Is that to rude? Well, maybe…but, he is total crap. I have watched Cera in the under rated American sitcom Arrested Development were he played the part of the kooky teenager down to a tee. Then stared in Juno where he was really good as a kooky puppy dogged eyed teenager. He was also good in Superbad as the kooky puppy dogged eyed teenager. In Nick and N…I think you get the idea. If not I will spell it out…Cera only plays the same looking and acting part in all his movies. He used to do them so good but now he plays Black’s sidekick with the same boring tones and he has lost any of the magic which made him a star in the first place. I enjoyed him in Juno and AD because he would drag out lines and do a shifty awkward look away and still be cute. But, in this he is just crap. I mean awful. He drags out lines and adlibs to still look cool, but he fails. Plain crap. He is not, and can not be the person he wishes he was…Bill Murrey.
Talking of the ex Ghostbusters, Rammis has a bit part but he looks so old and fat that you wonder why he gave himself an on screen role. Maybe if he stayed behind the camera and worked on a decent script then maybe it would have been better.

The script just doesn’t have the power punch needed for this type of movie. The reason people like Black, Cera, Rudd and Rammis do funny comedy is because they know their cult history and add lines in that are relevant today, and do impression of other movies/shows/comics, most the time being in jokes. But, being set in year one they can’t do any of that as it’s set way before any cult references can be made.

I’m going to keep this review short (un like the movie) and just tell you not to see it.

It’s rubbish and when I watch a comedy I don’t just want to smirk I want to laugh.

This left me a little numb

Ghostbusters’s 3 better be good or I’m coming after you Rammis and I won’t stop at just angry words…

YEAR ONE

2/10