Movie Review: Year One (2009) - Page 2

David Cross is Cain, Paul Rudd is Abel, Hank Azaria is Abraham and Christopher Mintz-Plasse is Isaac.

The specifics of these characters are unimportant — the writers seemed to be more concerned with putting recognizable faces in iconic roles than actually giving them anything to do; I’m not going to try to do more than that.

Eventually, most everyone ends up in Sodom, where Zed and Oh’s fellow villagers have been enslaved. The film fortunately picks up a little comedic steam around this point, thanks mostly to a hilariously cringe inducing turn from Oliver Platt as a very hairy high priest.

But even that gag grows tired quickly, and as Zed and Oh fight for the women they love — two woefully underdeveloped love interests — it just becomes an exercise in holding on until the final credits roll.

Year One certainly isn’t unbearable; it’s just utterly mediocre and uninspired. Maybe this stuff would’ve been funny in prehistoric times. Now? Not so much.

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