The Flintstones

Name: The Flintstones
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Released: May 27, 1994
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 38
Cast: Halle Berry, John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell

1994

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: May 27, 1994 | PG

Starring: Halle Berry, John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell

Summary: A rock solid cast breathes comic life into Fred Flintstone and his friends' hilarious attempts to make it in a barely civilized world. (Universal Studios)

Director: Brian Levant

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 91 min

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Richard Schickel

And while more than 30 writers worked on the screenplay and untold numbers labored to re-create the ambiance and effects that the animators once tossed off with a few squiggles of their pencils, The Flintstones doesn't feel overcalculated, over-produced or overthought. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

The Flintstones is a big, shiny package of comic nostalgia, as much a theme park as a movie. Read full review

Caryn James

The greatest lost opportunity in The Flintstones is that its writers (more than 30) are so faithful to the 60's television series that they failed to add enough updated pop-culture references. The few included are among the film's best jokes. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Like "The Addams Family" before it, this is one of those clever, lively and ultimately wearying pieces of showy Hollywood machinery where a glut of creativity has gone into the visuals with only scraps left over for the plot and the dialogue. [27 May 1994 Pg.F1]

Robert Faires

They're admirable attempts to update the old cartoon's broad social satire and add some depth to these characters, but they're played too gravely (gravelly?) to work in this wild world, and they don't prompt the same silly satisfaction that the show did. Read full review

Empire Angie Errigo

Sadly the plot leaves a lot to be desired with major flaws never far away. The in-jokes are amusing but their novelty soon begins to wear thin. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Considering the 32 writers (including Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, and Steven E. de Souza) who worked on this live-action adaptation of the 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series about a Stone Age family, one might have expected a few funny lines here and there, but this is mirthless (and worthless) from top to bottom. Read full review

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SimpsonFans

Aug 4, 2016

don't listen to the critics. I had a yabba yabba doo time watching this awesome compared movie to the animated TV series. the four actors who played the Flintstones and the Rubbles were great! Fred Flintstone is voiced by John Goodman (Monsters Inc.), Barney Rubble is voiced by Rick Moranisdon't listen to the critics. I had a yabba yabba doo time watching this awesome compared movie to the animated TV series. the four actors who played the Flintstones and the Rubbles were great! Fred Flintstone is voiced by John Goodman (Monsters Inc.), Barney Rubble is voiced by Rick Moranis (Spaceballs, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids and Brother Bear), Wilma is voiced by Elizabeth Perkins (Finding Nemo and Big) and Betty is voiced by Rosie O'Donnell (Tarzan and Sleepless in Seattle). This sure is a great movie.… Expand

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4EverGreen

Mar 23, 2011

You'll find it very hard to find a live-action movie rendition of an animated series that does a better job of capturing the feeling of the cartoon that this movie manages to contain! The set locations, props, special effects, and miscellaneous tools used within the movie all look likeYou'll find it very hard to find a live-action movie rendition of an animated series that does a better job of capturing the feeling of the cartoon that this movie manages to contain! The set locations, props, special effects, and miscellaneous tools used within the movie all look like vintage stone age high tech, the plot is grade-A and is carried out magnificently by the actors and actresses picked to portray the Modern Stone Age Family. John Goodman is the heart of soul of all that Fred Flintstone is; Elizabeth Perkins is perfect as the red-haired hot wife Wilma who takes no nonsense no matter what Fred tries to tell her otherwise, Rick Moranis does a superb job of acting as the well-meaning, but often trouble-making neighbor that is Barney Rubble; Rosie O'Donnell is great as the warm and caring Betty Rubble who wants to be a loving mother to her adopted child; Elizabeth Taylor has rarely ever been better than in her last big-budget movie appearance ever, as Fred's insufferable Mother-In-Law, Pearl; Kyle Maclachlan plays the role of a scheming, greedy tycoon named Cliff Vandercave; while Halle Berry is the charming, seductive accomplice named Sharon Stone; Harvey Korman provides hilarious voice-work as the Dicta-bird who tries to provide advice to Fred Flintstone, Johnathan Winters has a surprising bit part as an out-of work Rock Quarry worker, and original cartoon series alums William Hanna, Jean Vanderpyl, and Joseph Barbera (sometimes omitted) even make cameo appearances! If you want to have a Yabba-Dabba-Doo time watching a big, live-action movie version of a cartoon series, than this is the movie to watch! Fun for children and adults of all ages! :D Enough said, true believers! ;)… Expand

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MovieLonely94

Oct 18, 2010

don't listen to the critics. I had a yabba yabba doo time watching this awesome compared movie to the animated TV series. the four actors who played the Flintstones and the Rubbles were great!

3 of 3 users found this helpful30

Madmaxima

Feb 17, 2019

No esta mal para un domingo familiar pero es una de esas películas que solo se tienen que ver una vez en la vida.

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drlowdon

Dec 26, 2020

Fred and Barney work mining rock at Slate and Company, and when a chance for promotion arises Fred gets the executive position, but little does he know that he's being manipulated by his boss to be the fall guy for an embezzlement scheme.

The Flintstones movie does it’s best to capture theFred and Barney work mining rock at Slate and Company, and when a chance for promotion arises Fred gets the executive position, but little does he know that he's being manipulated by his boss to be the fall guy for an embezzlement scheme.

The Flintstones movie does it’s best to capture the spirit of the much loved cartoon series in terms of visuals, but the lacklustre script and predictably dull plot makes this a bit of a drag to sit through.… Expand

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JPK

Aug 6, 2020

Not Good

Despite a almost perfect cast (Especially Goodman and Moranis), Some degree of faithfulness to the cartoon, Creative visuals, And some fun in bits and pieces, This adaptation of The Flinstones has a terrible script, A pretty bad performance from O’Donnel, Hit and miss humor, and isNot Good

Despite a almost perfect cast (Especially Goodman and Moranis), Some degree of faithfulness to the cartoon, Creative visuals, And some fun in bits and pieces, This adaptation of The Flinstones has a terrible script, A pretty bad performance from O’Donnel, Hit and miss humor, and is pretty boring at times. It’s not the worst cartoon adaptation (Trust me, The adaptations of Alvin, Garfield, and Smurfs are WAY worse than this) but it’s a very disappointing one.… Expand

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EpicLadySponge

Apr 6, 2016

Whoever had the idea to make a Flintstones live action movie based on the popular Hanna-Barbera cartoon named the same thing has to seriously get fired right now.

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