Rating:
***/*****, or 6/10
Zany
comedy set in prehistoric times. Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr stars as
Atouk, a clumsy caveman who, because of his desire to win the heart
of a beautiful cave girl that belongs to a strong, muscular and
aggressive tribe leader, is banished and forms his own tribe of
various equally oddball Cro-Magnon men that have been outcast by
their tribes. Finding strength in friendship the misfits, including a
midget, a blind man and a caveman that talks in perfect English while
the rest of them only grunt and use gibberish words, have some wacky
adventures and eventually evolve and discover the secrets of fire,
cooking and love, and also manage to survive in a world filled with
not-so-terrifying dimwitted dinosaurs and other assorted deliciously
goofy, stop motion animated creatures. Fun comedic romp containing a
few good gags, but as a whole nothing remarkable, except for animated
dinosaurs, which are always a welcome sight.
Starring:
Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long
Directed
by Carl Gottlieb
USA:
Turman-Foster Company, 1981
