Movie Review - 10,000 BC

Just goes to show you that you can NOT judge a book by its cover. Or in this case, a movie by its trailer.

I would squeal with delight over the trailers for this movie when I was at the theater. The scenery was lush, the effects looked really cool and the SOUND was AWESOME! The wooly mammoths stomping around shaking the ground and everything. I was SO looking forward to seeing this movie! I bought a dvd that had a trailer for 10,000 BC and it just didn't have the excitement to it that it had in the theater, but I didn't think anything of it, figuring my surround sound speakers just didn't have the OOMPHF that the ones had at the theater.

I think maybe next time I'll pay attention to that. This movie was okay, but it was definitely not the excitement I was looking forward to.

I'm not going to be able to get as in-depth with the names and such because frankly I don't care enough to look them all up, so bear with me as I fumble thru that part.

So you have this large tribe of people that kinda reminded me of the Clan Of The Cave Bear except that they spoke English in 10,000 BC. A blue eyed girl shows up as her family has been killed by the four-legged demons (men on horses) and the tribe takes her in believing that she is the one that will save them. They name her Evolet. (Which is funny that I remember the trailer where the guy is screaming a name and I could have sworn he was screaming "Camelot!" and when seeing the movie I realized he was screaming "Evolet!")

Anyway, one particular tribe member, D'Leh (delay), falls for Evolet and promises his neverending love and devotion (when they're, like, 10 years old, come on...) but to later "win" her, he has to be possessor of the "white sword" which is a bunch of bones made into a sword that you earn by showing great courage and bravery against a beast.

The four-legged demons show up and take a bunch of tribe people, including Evolet, as slaves and D'Leh heads up the search party to go find her (them) and rescue her (them). During their journey, they run into saber-toothed tigers, and big man-eating birds.

Again, this movie was eh. The scenery WAS pretty cool. But there were too many laughable parts. The old woman who was more or less an empath who would start shaking uncontrollably when she would hone in on a particular person's emotions and as they were being hurt, she would start bleeding....and then the part where the tiger was struggling, stuck in the water with a huge tree limb keeping him from getting out, and D'Leh decided he would free the tiger and he says to the animal "Okay, I'm going to free you. Don't you eat me!"

Sadly, I think I was the only one in the packed theater that laughed at that line.

Maybe if I would have had low expectations, I would have been pleasantly surprised that it was so good, but I expected it to be awesome and was therefore majorly disappointed in what I saw.

The special effects ended up being not as great as they looked in the theater. The people who did this movie should have used the folks that did the special effects for The Golden Compass, because those polar bears were great and if the tigers would have looked that cool, I would have been more sold on their realness.

And the wooly mammoths....looked like real elephants walking around with glued on hair and plastic horns shoved into their mouths. It was pretty neat, though, when one of them was getting ready to step on one of the tribesmen. (I was rooting for the elephant/wooly mammoth to squash the guy.)

Sorry, but I can't recommend this one. Maybe when it comes out on dvd, it will be worth a rental but otherwise it's probably avoidable. But, actually, it would be better to see on the big screen, so if you have a dollar show movie theater and this one is showing, that would probably be the best for viewing.

Vixy :]