 | Harold Ramis's plan to sacrifice adult laughs for youthful bums on seats hasn't really worked out If you go and see Year One , you're not very likely to be tickled pink, but you may be a bit puzzled. The producer, Judd Apatow , is an Emmy award-winner. The acting talent is tried and tested. The director and lead writer, Harold Ramis , has Animal House, Caddyshack and even Groundhog Day under his belt. Yet his film's a disappointment , to say the least. So much reliance on poop-eating, pissing and ... (read more)
|  | Jack Black and Michael Cera play dopey cavemen in a pea-brained buddy comedy. Xan Brooks meets the ancestors (read more)
|  | The summer movie season is generally a time when the studios pull out their big guns, and 2009 is no exception. In this year's Summer Movie Preview, we've got superheroes (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and a couple reboots of classic sci-fi franchises (Star Trek and Terminator Salvation). We've got wizards (Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince) and real American heroes (GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra). We've got brand new films from Pixar (Up), Judd Apatow (Funny People), and Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious ... (read more)
|  | Lynn Shelton's Humpday is drawing Judd Apatow comparisons at Edinburgh with its hardcore buddy study - the director has already won Shane Meadows's 'special prize' We've been here before. Two men struggling to define a friendship, a woman lurking in the wings, muddying the buddy waters, a ribald storyline frothed by the comedy of embarrassment. This is the world of the dick flick, the bromance, perfected by Judd Apatow and propagated by a legion of lad disciples. And yet, Humpday is far edgier than ... (read more)
|  | Adam Sandler and Sylvester Stallone will provide their voices for the live-action comedy The Zookeeper from MGM. Also offering up their vocal chops will be Cher, Jon Favreau, and Judd Apatow. (read more)
| | Adam Sandler, Cher, Jon Favreau, Sylvester Stallone and Judd Apatow will provide voices for the animals in the live-action Kevin James comedy "The Zookeeper," also starring Rosario Dawson. (read more)
|  | Year One, directed by Harold Ramis and produced by Judd Apatow, follows Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera), a hapless pair of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers who embark on the world's first road trip. Zed deems himself "Chosen" by God after he eats the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Banished from their primitive tribe, the two embark on a journey to find out what life is all about, encountering several Old Testament figures along the way. (read more)
| | George Simmons, the world-famous (yet quite lonely) comedian and movie star played but Adam Sandler in Judd Apatow's "Funny People," won't be formally introduced to moviegoers until the film bows on July 31. In the meantime, however, you can get an early peek at some of the films that made Simmons a star, thanks to just-released clips from a few of his best-known hits, including "Sayonara Davey," "Dog's Best Friend," and "Re-Do." It's all part of the promotional rollout for "Funny People," centered ... (read more)
|  | Peter Bradshaw introduces our guide to the best of the summer's cinema releases Gallery: the 20 best films of summer 2009 As far as the blockbuster season is concerned, the summer of 2009 is already well under way with what has to be the best popular film of the year - JJ Abrams's tremendous new Star Trek adventure. Young Kirk and Young Spock have rather upstaged every other commercial movie, but that doesn't mean to say they don't have a fair amount of box-office competition. Harry Potter returns ... (read more)
|  | Once again he's still writing about neurotic Jewish Americans - but the culture he celebrated is gone. As the director returns to film in NYC, a new and confident generation asks if Allen is still relevant Woody Allen is coming back to New York. After five years making films in Europe, the greatest chronicler of life in the city is returning to his home town and the familiar turf of the neurotic Jewish male. Allen's latest film, called Whatever Works and starring comedian Larry David, marks the ... (read more)
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