Caveman

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