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80A thoroughly, sometimes gaggingly broad and sly conceptual laugh-in.
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75Year One has one joke, but it's a good one, played for many variations over the course of an often very funny comedy.
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67This is just silliness run mildly wild.
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63It's the knockabout biblical lark Mel Brooks never got around to making.
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63Dopey but resourceful yukfest.
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63At best it's a bit like Mel Brooks' "The History of the World Part I" (except Ramis stops somewhere in Genesis); at worst it's like a Scary Movie-type parody of John Huston's "The Bible."
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50Year One is not really THAT bad and not ENTIRELY without laughs.
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50The humor, largely centered around bodily functions and bathroom habits, is almost exclusively sophomoric.
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50I have a certain affection for this movie, if only because of its conceptual simplicity.
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50Lacks seismic guffaws but elicits many mild smiles.
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Year One isn't dreadful; it just isn't nearly as funny as it hopes to be.
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40A lot of comedic talent founders in this new Harold Ramis comedy that doesn't exactly recall his glory days of "Caddyshack" and "Groundhog Day."
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40Unless you pine for second-tier Mel Brooks, you'll find more laughs in the Old Testament itself.
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There is no real plot either; instead the narrative seems designed to get this prehistoric pair from one funny sketch to the next, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.
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38Its script isn't worth the papyrus it's inscribed on.
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38I found the most extreme material to be so tasteless that it voided all comedy.
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33The 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?
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30Year One sets prehistoric comedy back at least 20 years.
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30A lowbrow, only fitfully amusing comedy.
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25A dreary experience.
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25Any good will the movie generates, though, is grated right back off by Black, whose obnoxiousness has lost whatever charm it once possessed.
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25Perhaps the best that can be said for Year One is that it aims low and hits the mark.
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20During all of the film’s oh-so-long 97 minutes, Year One, barely earns a snicker.
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20The only people who should be peeved enough to raise hell about Year One are the viewers who had to pay to sit through it.
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20Creatively it's a giant step backwards.
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12We loved this movie the first three times we saw it, when it was called "Life of Brian," "Wholly Moses," and "History of the World Part 1."
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10This is shtick that’s minimally a generation past its expiration date.
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Unbearably painful from shrugging start to outtakes-laden finish, Harold Ramis’ half-assed, hare-brained return to writing and directing makes Mel Brooks’ equally muddled, soporific "History of the World, Part 1" look downright majestic by comparison.