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UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Jeff2sayshi Aardman studio has had a good run, dating back to Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, and Chicken Run. That all comes to an abrupt thudding halt with Early Man.The main concept of Early Man seems like it should be ripe for concepts of plots. Set as one tribe of Stone Age cavemen are being replaced with new Bronze Age humans, there should be a story here that could be told humourously. Nick Park and Aardman Studios decide to tell this story through football (soccer). In and of itself, this wouldn't be a problem, except that whole 90 minute movie is dedicated to the soccer theme. Early Man is gifted football from the heavens, Bronze Age man plays football to line the coffers of the local emissary of the queen, Stone age man must learn how to play football, etc, etc. It's basically a sports movie, but without any of the uplifting themes of sports movies.The humour also falls flat most of the time. Some stuff early on gave some chuckles, but as the movie kept dragging along, small little jokes become eyerolling, instead of guffaws.The positives here is the animation. As ever, the Claymation look is excellent, and obviously done with love. In the end, however, Early Man is a rare miss from a studio that had done great work previously.

Gordon-11 This film tells the story of some Stone Age men who have to challenge Bronze Age men a football game in order to win their land back.The story is really silly, full of cliches and is far fatched. What drives me crazy is that the characters are not even cute. In fact, they look rather horrid! In "Wallace and Gromit", this prototype of characters work, but in "Early Man" it does not work at all. I did not quite enjoy it.

nathanfjohnson I love almost everything that comes out of Aardman. The technical challenge and talent shown in this movie is top notch. This movie was very fun to watch and the kids got a kick out of a lot of the humor. The overal plot curve was a little weak, not much in terms of surprises or twists. Overall, it was an enjoyable movie for the whole family.

Granger As much as I like animation and as much as I wanted to like this particular film, honestly this is one of the most droll, drag-along films I've seen in some time. I realized halfway into it I hadn't laughed once. The characters are cliche, the plot witless, and fit only for those age 7 and under. What it lacks in humor and excitement it makes up for in predictability and banal attempts at sight-gags (emphasis on the gag). Wish I could say better about it, but it doesn't leave much room for praise. I will admit I shut it off at about exactly the halfway point, unable to stomach any more of its kindergarten mentality... so I didn't stick around and waste more time to see if it picked up any in the 2nd half. Somehow I seriously doubt I missed anything.