"Year One" is more or less indefensible, but I'll gladly defend parts of it. It's the knockabout biblical lark Mel Brooks never got around to making, with
Jack Black and
Michael Cera playing Zed and Oh, outcast members of a Paleolithic tribal village whose wanderings bring them into contact with Cain and Abel and Abraham and Isaac and Sodom and Gomorrah and poop jokes and pee jokes and some pretty funny circumcision jokes. "What's with all the genital mutilation--" asks Oh, a sensitive gatherer (as opposed to hunter), upon hearing the circumcision action plan put forth by
Hank Azaria's Abraham. Don't worry, the bearded one says. "It's a very sleek look."
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