"The Year One" Movie Trailer: Jack Black And Michael Cera's Biblical Road Trip

The full trailer for this June's Jack Black, Michael Cera comedy "The Year One" is out and seen below. The biblical road trip stars the pair as lazy hunter/gatherers who get banished from their village. The movie and also features Oliver Platt, Olivia Wilde, and David Cross and Paul Rudd as Cain and Abel.

Directed by Harold Ramis, it's a Judd Apatow-produced film.

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[ChelleWeTalk]

Michael Cera is adorable and all, and I can't wait for the AD movie, but he is in for a surprise in a few years when he has aged beyond the befuddled innocent thing. I think he might want to spend some time, um, honing his craft.

[ShanniC]

Arrested Development will be a MILLION times better than this!

[lvtunes]

This won't be as ridiculous as religion itself.

[alsm9]

No, but a lot more fun.

[Steamboater]

Talk about arrested developement! What a piece of cr*p. This wouldn't even make a good TV sitcom.

[ruthinking]

For this, Michael Cera delayed the Arrested Development movie??? oh, brother.

[mulegino]

As Mencken said, "nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public", so this should be a blockbuster. Anti-religious material is so avant-garde these days, so cutting edge daring-especially if it involves the symbols of Christianity.
Hollywood has become a desperate race to the finish with the collective attention span of the nation, its dying cultural literacy and aesthetic taste. Hollywood humor is cheap and repetitive stunts, bodily functions, scatalogy, and, in the anti-religious genre, the demolishing of straw men before an audience of raving cultural pre-adolescents.

[kwinter]

There is a formula:
Religion is funny.
Funny usually works well in comedies.

... and Mencken had a great sense of humor, if the movie turns out to be good, it sounds like something he might have enjoyed.

[mulegino]

Yeah, Mencken had a great sense of humor, but he could actually articulate that through the written word-he did lampoon religion as a Voltaireian, not as a vulgarian. That makes a tremendous amount of difference.

[boyer37212]

Yeah. You're right.

And come to think of it, the farting scene in Blazing Saddles sort of loses its punch after you've seen it 47 times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs

[PwnedByJesus]

So Hollywood = bad. Benny Hill = good?

[bas1311]

Except Mencken said, "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." You're sure welcome to your fantasies and mythology, but there is nothing intelligent about religion. It requires a lack of intelligence and something called faith to believe in it.

[obtusegoose]

I'm tired of Michael Cera's one note performances. I'll take a pass.

[jennytaylia]

Not to mention Jack Black's one-trick-pony acting.

[PlayTOE]

Lame but funny (if you like slapstick with an anti-religious flavor) ... should do well on late night cabal TV.

[The Ghost]

. . . and Jesus said, "Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone"

A rock flies out and strikes the woman dead.

Jesus says, "Aaaawww, MOM!"

[SlinkyTWF]

Life of Brian has a better stoning scene.

[kwinter]

Life of Brian is so underrated. One of my favorites!

[valkyrie607]

"I merely said, this was a meal fit for Jehovah..."

[killerBush]

Loved Jack Black in King Kong, also Eden Riegel is in it. Love her in All My Children. sounds like a winner.

[MuchMadness]

This looks as though it will be as blasphemous as that anti Proposition 8 musical parody.

[JCane526]

Then don't watch it. I'm sure they don't need your approval.

Setting something in biblical times and lampooning it (the Cain and Abel story) does not make it automatically blasphemous. When will people stop being so self-righteous?

[The Ghost]

YAY BLASPHEMY!

[Hirnlego]

"This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves."
— Robert G. Ingersoll

[rickeagle]

This was surely snark.....

[oldandintheway1]

Well, if the consensus of opinion is that this is such a bad movie, why is Judd Apatow so popular??

[MudKitty]

...because most of his movies are good...

[rektruax]

While I don't really know who Judd Apatow is, and therefore cannot offer an informed opinion as to his abilities. I can answer your question in a general sense...

"Popular" does not now, nor has it ever, necessarily (key word) equaled "good". If you do opt for the Popular = Good equation without question, you must be prepared to take the good with the bad.

[TheBaffler]

Most people are philistines, especially Americans.

[jennytaylia]

Ever read up on the Philistines? They were pretty cool; they got a bad rap from the Israe.lites for being pag.an.

[gorgol]

As Jack Black would say.."Stink-a-roonie". Wait for the video to come out...and don't bother with that either...

[Bitsko]

Is it Thanksgiving? Just wondering, because it sure smells like turkey.