We first talked about Homo Erectus way back in 2005 when we first heard the film was going into production. If nothing else the casting caught our attention as we originally wrote:
“Every once in a while an idea for a movie comes along that is so dumb you’re just stuck for words. Here comes “Homo Erectus: A Caveman Comedy”. The film has an interesting cast with David Carradine, Ali Larter, Tom Arnold, Talia Shire and Hayes MacArthur. All good enough. But the premise of the movie…. The film centers on Ishbo (Rifkin), a philosophical caveman who loves Fardart (Larter), but she only has eyes for Ishbo’s studly, dimwitted brother, Thudnik (MacArthur). Carradine and Shire will play Ishbo’s parents, while Arnold will play Rog, a gay caveman.”
Well the film has played a couple of festivals, and caught the attention of National Lampoon who have picked up the film and thusly renamed it “National Lampoon’s Homo Erectus”. Very creative.
Back to the film itself… man… I just don’t know. I mean, didn’t they do a bunch of bad caveman comedies in the 80’s? I just don’t see how the premise lends itself to anything but the highest quality of cheese. Please note, I’m not saying the film sucks, after all, I haven’t seen it. All I’m saying is that my expectations are low… low enough that unless I hear some really positive things about it, I’ll probably give it a pass.
