Year One

Year One (2009)

  • 15% of critics liked it
    (165 reviews)

  • 31% of users liked it
    (319,393 ratings)

Jack Black and Michael Cera headline Harold Ramis' Biblical comedy about a pair of misfit hunter-gatherers who embark on a wild journey through the ancient world after being banished from their primitive village. Zed (Black) and Oh (Cera) may lack in the skills that their chieftain is looking for,… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 37 min.
Directed By
Harold Ramis
Written By
Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg
Genres
Action & Adventure, Comedy
In Theaters
Jun 19, 2009 Wide
On DVD
Oct 6, 2009
Sony Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

    Creatively it's a giant step backwards, with Jack Black and Michael Cera playing to the kids as inept hunter-gatherers who stumble across various Old Testament characters.

  • Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies

    [Year One has] some very funny moments but not enough of them.

  • Ben Lyons, At the Movies

    This is a significant notch below the great Monty Python films that tackled religion with intelligence and wit.

  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

    The people who made Year One seem to think that all you have to do to make a hit comedy is get a bunch of jokesters together. But where are the jokes?

  • Kyle Smith, New York Post

    Year One is nowhere near as funny as the ancient-civilization movies I saw in high school: Life of Brian, History of the World Part I, Caligula. Its script isn't worth the papyrus it's inscribed on.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • moon r


    Humor must be highly subjective. I didn't see this when it came out because it looked like it was "too high school" but I laughed myself sick watching it. I was choking. Never've been a fan of Black or Cera (though both do okay here) so I credit writer/director… More

  • Scott G


    It seems that Harold Ramis didn't know that putting Cera and Black is a big mistake, Jack way of expressing comedy is way to different to how Cera shows which really ruined it for me, critics and the general public who watched it.

  • Brad W


    Year One is a terrible example of a comedy film, it has nothing but toilet humor and thats a sign of a crappy film. The plot is as pointless as they get, and another failure for Judd Apatow. The cast is crappy, one of the work jack Black films ever and Michael Cera is just here to… More

  • Manu G


    Meet your ancestors Saw it again! Pretty decent funny not boring movie. It was very entertaining and it was a trip just observing the past as they joke about it, hilarious! Zed, a prehistoric would-be hunter, eats from a tree of forbidden fruit and is banished from his tribe,… More

  • Directors C


    Jack Black and Michael Cera together in a comedy movie. Im sorry but it just doesn't mix. Awful movie.

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