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2004 Comedy / Fantasy
Review
Doubtless inspired by a famous Monty Python sketch, this absurd Stone Age romp is one
of those films which seems like a brilliant idea for all of three minutes until it suddenly
dawns that it’s really a very silly idea. The sad truth is that there probably isn’t
a lot of mileage in jokes about the travails of prehistoric man, and the film manages
to get all the obvious ones out of the way within the first two minutes (“Stone Age” in
French is “L’Age de Pierre”, so obviously everyone is named Pierre – yep, that’s as clever
as it gets). After the novelty value has worn off (well within the aforementioned
two minutes), the film very quickly becomes a tedious and rather infantile ramble as the
scriptwriters struggle in vain to come up with enough decent jokes to fill a ninety minute
film. It’s like watching teeth being pulled – from sabre-toothed chickens.
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Director:
Alain Chabat
Starring: Marina Foïs, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Rochefort, Gaëlle Cohen, Joseph Beddelem Synopsis
35,000 years ago, early man is divided into two camps – Those Who Have Clean Hair and
Those Who Don’t. Those Who Don’t are determined to steal from Those Who Do the long-lost
Secret of Shampoo. However, the ones with clean hair have a more serious matter
to contend with. One of their number has been killed – the first murder in the history
of – er – history. The task of solving the world’s first murder mystery falls to
Pierre and his assistant Pierre (actually they’re all named Pierre, which is good because
no one has yet invented Identity Cards)...
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