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(1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 9% Rotten Page   1   1/4 "A textbook example of comedy at its most misguided."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari 2.5/5 "An experience likened to repeatedly playing with a Whoopie Cushion for an hour and a half..."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke 3/5 "Ramis' best may be behind him, but luckily, Year One is not one of his worst."   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron D "An awkward bust, a raucous costume party held at a funeral, and the more it sinks lowbrow to obtain laughs, the easier it is to bid adieu to Harold Ramis as a trustworthy comedic filmmaker."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "This strategy -- cutting away before a likely punchline -- is Year One's preferred mode."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1.5/4 "As underwhelming as its buzz might have indicated..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1/4 "Creative desperation leads to slapdash boredom in Year One, a substandard Monty Python wannabe that hasn't a story so much as a series of bad, barely connected sketches."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman D+ "If you can't take this premise and these actors and come up with anything funnier than Jack Black eating poop, then you have no business making comedies."   Film.com   Eric D. Snider C- "Not much more than another raunchy, adolescent boys-out-on-the-town farrago, even if the boys are dressed in animal skins and the town is Sodom."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "Stuffed full of comic bits that don't work."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat "Like [Superbad], Year One essentially follows two sex-crazy guys as they wander through a nightmarish dry dream, in which the coitus is perpetually interruptus."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 1.5/4 "An inexplicably unfunny comedy made by two people who have proven they can do much better: director/co-writer Harold Ramis and co-producer Judd Apatow."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "throws its comedy around with semi-reckless abandon, but never quite achieves more than a few good chuckles"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 5/10 "This one is destined to take its place alongside films like Evan Almighty and Wholly Moses!."   DVDTown.com   James Plath 2/5 ""Year One" is the kind of stuff Mel Brooks would have whipped up back in the day -- and, frankly, whipped through in about a half-hour."   MSN Movies   James Rocchi "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 1.0/4.0 "While... the filmmakers had a good time making the movie, not enough of it translates into a successful film... the script could have used a lot more divine intervention."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 1.5/5 "Now, I know what you're thinking... any film featuring tribal girlfriends in animal skins and a trip to Sodom can't be all that bad. Well, trust me, it is."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C+ "Harold Ramis...serves up some low brow humor in a fitful script, but his film is elevated into the ranks of pleasurably stupid humor by terrific comic turns from Cera and a game Oliver Platt"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford D+ "This uninspired Torah-lampooning sketch comedy is as arid and empty as the landscapes which the protagonists wander across."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[S]et[s] back the noble causes of blasphemy, rational thinking, and humanism about a century... doesn't even have the nerve to be profane..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1/4 "If there's anything sadder than an unfunny comedy, it's an unfunny comedy that tacks on an equally unfunny blooper reel over the closing credits."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 1/4 "Rarely in the history of cinema have so many genuinely funny people come together to make a film that is so painfully unfunny to watch."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "There's no point to it, just a series of gags -- in both senses of the word."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "Year One is a slapdash film in desperate need of more authoritative stewardship."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "It is so bad, in fact, that not only do I feel as though I have sullied the fine reputation of "Life of Brian" by mentioning it in the same paragraph, I fear I may have also sullied the reputation of "Wholly Moses" as well."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "The filmmakers and cast find a few great laughs in this flimsy premise, but the whole film is so underdeveloped that it hardly seems to be up there on screen at all."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 0/5 "When Ramis went home every night from filming, did he honestly think he'd shot anything funny?"   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D- "The only thing that can be mustered up for the whole sorry enterprise is pity."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick D+ "Ramis seems paralyzed from the get-go, ineptly grappling with an overgrown Saturday Night Live routine that squanders every chance at clever humor it gets."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux "When did comedy writing become such a lost art, replaced by the improvisational byplay of talented but increasingly familiar players left to think up funny lines for an amusing situation?"   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker 1/4 "At its best, "Year One" is offensive. ... At its worst, however, it's downright repulsive."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell "Year One is quite a mixed bag of nuts...which could repulse [some] viewers... But if you can supress your gag reflex...it ascends to hyperventilating levels of hilarity."   Cinefantastique   Steve Biodrowski 1/10 "Thou shalt avoid it like the plague - at least until the dvd is released."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 2/10 "About as funny as watching Black and Cera darning socks. No, I take that back, I think either of those men could make darning socks look pretty amusing."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 9% Rotten Page   1