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  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 06/19/2009
  • Running Time: 100 mins
  • Director: Harold Ramis
  • Cast: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Olivia Wilde, David Cross, Hank Azaria, Juno Temple, Oliver Platt, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Gabriel Sunday
  • Producer: Judd Apatow, Clayton Townsend
  • Writer: Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
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  3. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, 12.2 mil, 120.2 mil
  4. The Time Traveler's Wife, 9.7 mil, 37.2 mil
  5. Julie & Julia, 8.8 mil, 59.1 mil
  6. Shorts, 6.4 mil, 6.4 mil
  7. G-Force, 4.1 mil, 107.2 mil
  8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 3.5 mil, 290.2 mil
  9. The Ugly Truth, 2.8 mil, 82.8 mil
  10. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, 2.7 mil, 11.2 mil
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Year One

Unbearably painful from shrugging start to outtakes-laden finish, Harold Ramis�s half-assed, hare-brained return to writing and directing makes Mel Brooks�s equally muddled, soporific History of the World, Part 1 look downright majestic by comparison�and comparisons are inevitable. Sixteen long years after Groundhog Day, perhaps the greatest American comedy of the 1990s, this is instead the Harold Ramis responsible for Club Paradise�the unfocused and unhinged sketch comedian for whom no laugh�s too cheap, as evidenced by scenes involving the eating of shit, the tossing of testicles, and the streaming of urine all over Michael Cera�s face. Released under the Judd Apatow banner, Year One is a hollow, cynical exercise in juvenilia, and the cast of thousands looks like it�d rather be anywhere other than the desert, pretending to be biblical outcasts. Jack Black, as hunter Zed, has never worked so hard for so little. Cera, as gatherer Oh, can�t even obscure his embarrassment behind the strands of a cheap and ill-fitting wig. Not one of the comedy all-stars that Ramis enlisted�among them Paul Rudd, whose cameo as Abel lasts all of 30 seconds and still runs too long; David Cross as bro-killin� Cain; and Hank Azaria as son-sacrificing Abraham�can wring a single laugh from a screenplay that pauses for a moment to contemplate the existence of God between squeezing out sharts. Year One serves as irrefutable proof that He does not exist. — Robert Wilonsky

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