This is one of Rob's favorite movies. I'm not sure what that says about him. I had never even heard of it before. Atouk (Ringo Starr) is a small, weak caveman who desperately wants to fuck Lana (Barbara Bach), an impossibly hot cavewoman. Unfortunately, Lana is the main squeeze of the tribe leader, Tonda (John Matuszak). After an unfortunate incident involving some prehistoric roofies, Atouk is cast out of the tribe. He and his friend Lar (Dennis Quaid) try to come up with a plan to get Tonda killed so Atouk can have Lana. Along the way, they encounter other outcasts like Tala (Shelley Long) and Gog (Jack Gilford) and start to form their own tribe, based on skills and brains, rather than brute strength.
I can't decide if this was a very clever satire of creationism or just an 80's farce with a dumb premise. Not only are men and dinosaurs existing together, the jump from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens is depicted as simply bad posture, not evolution. It's played for laughs, in the broadest sense. There are drug jokes, fart jokes, and poop jokes aplenty. They even try to make light of the attempted rape of a drugged cavewoman by showing the main character bungling it.
Obviously, it wasn't to my taste. I wouldn't go so far as to say I was disgusted or appalled by it, I just didn't think it was very funny. It seems more like a historical artifact itself, frankly.
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