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Year One, one of the funnies movies of the year is out on DVD this week. Jack Black and Michael Cera star in writer/director Harold Ramis’s epic journey about two friends who aren’t the best at what they do in their tiny village of sixty, and end up meeting several biblical figures on their way to save their village and eventually become the heroes.

Now, I’m not a big fan of Michael Cera. I don’t hate him or dislike him, but his roles have pretty much been all the same. He always plays the soft spoken, awkwardly shy kind of character you hope will get the girl. I do like him in this movie, but mostly because of the pairing up with Jack Black, who I am a fan of. Teaming up Michael Cera’s quick, smartalic type of comedy with Jack Black’s high voltage, in-your-face style balances each other out to where you’re not sure what they are going to say or do next.

I’ve said before that I like movies that take the audience through a familiar event or time and put a different spin to it, and this is one of those movies. I have never read the Bible, but I know most of the references that were in this movie. If I missed some, I am completely unaware of it. I enjoy when parts of the Bible are satirized and questioned, and the story of the Bible does intrigue me, even though I am not a practitioner of any religion. That’s besides the point and probably shouldn’t be discussed on my blog.

I did enjoy this movie. It had plenty of laughs that weren’t tasteless and completely ridiculous as most comedies are now. If you haven’t seen it or own it yet, it is definitely one of those movies you would want to keep, much like my other Harold Ramis favorites Groundhog Day and of course Ghostbusters which has another sequel on the way!

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