10,000 B.C.

Headline: ** Popcorn with Artificial Butter **
Title: 10,000 B.C.
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -1
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: None
Violence: VV
Sex: None
Nudity: N

RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: March 7, 2008
TIME: 109 minutes
STARRING: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle and Cliff Curtis
DIRECTOR: Roland Emmerich
PRODUCERS: Roland Emmerich, Harold Kloser, Michael Wimer, and Mark Gordon
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Sarah Bradshaw, Tom Karndowski, Thomas Tull, and William Fay
WRITERS: Roland Emmerich and Harold Kloser
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.

CONTENT: (RoRoRo, BB, VV, M) Very strong Romantic worldview with a UFO component where the noble savages are wiser and better than the civilized people who enslave them and some strong moral heroic virtues including apologizing for lying, standing up for others, pursuing justice, loyalty and decency, and putting values first; no foul language; lots of action violence, but never very bloody, including hunting and being attacked by mastodons, being attacked by raptors, beaten by slave traders, battle sequences between slave traders and pagans with swords, spears and clubs, people attacked by saber-toothed tiger; no sexual activities but expressions of love and romance; some upper male nudity; no alcohol; no smoking; and, lying rebuked.

GENRE: Adventure Fantasy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults

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SUMMARY: 10,000 B.C. is an entertaining but sometimes silly popcorn movie about a man who must rescue his beloved betrothed from an alien who is using thousands of slaves to build a great pyramid. 10,000 B.C. is an entertaining but very silly and problematic popcorn movie with a mixed worldview.

IN BRIEF:

10,000 B.C. is an entertaining but silly popcorn movie. A hunter named D'Leh goes after some slave traders who have kidnapped the lovely blue-eyed Evolet. D'Leh and his friends have to cross over mammoth mountains, encounter saber-tooth tigers and giant raptor birds. They rescue and lose Evolet to the slave traders, eventually making their way across the desert to a great pyramid being built by the Almighty. This slavemaster is the last of three people who came from beyond the stars or a lost civilization such as Atlantis. D'Leh and the others need to figure out how to instigate a slave revolt to save Evolet and their kinspeople.

10,000 B.C. moves briskly. The sound and camerawork are terrific. There are several jump out of your seat moments during the action sequences. That said, the movie fails to focus on the details. Many details make no sense, to the point of being silly. For example, the men trek across the frozen Alps with practically no clothes and no shoes. Finally, the movie extols some virtues like courage, honesty and chastity but offers a very strong Romantic worldview of human nature and civilization.