Remember the Harold Ramis-directed, Judd Apatow-produced biblical comedy, “Year One” starring Jack Black and Michael Cera? Well, our first real look at it is now online. Black and Cera play bumbling cavemen / lazy hunter-gatherers who are banished from their primitive village and bungle their way through stories from the Bible including Adam and Eve, (Ramis and Rhoda Griffis), Cain and Abel (played by David Cross and Paul Rudd), and Abraham and the son he wants to sacrifice to god, Isaac (Hank Azaria and McLovin’). Of course there’s the princess met at Sodom and Gomorrah (Olivia Wilde) and cavewomen love interests too(Juno Temple and June Diane Raphael).
We read the script mid-summer and while we never had time to write a real review, the film should be very entertaining and funny. The amusing screenplay written by “The Office” writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg (based on a Ramis) idea reads as if it was tailored specifically for Black and Cera in mind. It hits theaters June 19 and will be the first Apatow-related project we see in 2009.
It seems kinda funny and I’m a Jack Black fan, but I usually don’t like broad conceptual comedies much like this one. The costumes, the characters…as George Harrison once sang, “it’s all too much.”
I’m not big on those exact kind of comedies either, but having read the script and based on that clip that captures the tone well, i think it’ll be enjoyable enough. No masterpiece of course, but what comedies are these days?
That is why we must start the revolution … and not in the way Jack Black tried to in Orange County.