Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

jenny_claire-33619 Hi, this is a bit disappointing but watchable. Surely with better cinematography now a days they could do a better film and series of all the books. I want to watch more. Would love to see more of the following books to movie. Do want to see what happening to Ayla on the movies. Have read the books, now want watch a movie. Hope you will think of doing more movies. You just need a better movie writer or the original movie writer to to think of a better way to write this that will actually bring people to watch the movie. And maybe use some of the original actresses and actors, but use them as older versions of them. Would love to see more. I like this movie, but would love it if you decided to do them.

darkness_surroundz it was announced some time ago for an Extended version SE Laserdisc set, but never arrived. The movie must have been much longer, but test screenings gave the studio cold feet and they cut it down to a mere 98 minutes-impossible to even sketch out the basic plot in that amount of time.... "Cave Bear" also shows some of the ritual of stone age culture with the Shaman and the hunting rites of passage. There is some beauty in that culture. But the bottom line for these people is survival and that was a very difficult thing to accomplish. They were scratching and clawing (literally) just to eat and raise children. And sadly we know that they are doomed (except for a few Neanderthals who possibly interbred with Cro-Magnons).This kind of documentary approach in "Cave Bear" will not thrill those who want a stone age comedy-romance, "Caveman", or a special effects absurdity of prehistoric people fighting lots of dinosaurs, "One Million BC", (which is historically impossible). But if you can appreciate an intense story of a young woman's survival in the wild and her experience with a lost stone age culture, then I recommend "Clan of the Cave Bear

alphasun I agree with the first reviewer that this is an excellent film and I also enjoyed the book. I have always found the epoch it is set in fascinating and this film makes a good stab at suggesting how life might have been. It strikes me as reasonably credible anthropologically and its message about the value of human intelligence and initiative is positive and valid. Primitivism is not idealised but shown as what it is - a set of obstacles. It's also in the great and good tradition of entertaining Hollywood films about prehistory starring babes, e.g. 2000 Years B.C. Another interesting aspect of these films is the approach to language, and I like the subtitle solution. I should mention that the cast are good as well as Daryll Hannah. A fine film on a challenging subject.

Neil Welch Many years ago I tried starting to read Jean M Auel's novel. Despite the fact that it is very much my kind of thing, I could never get into it. So I come to the movie, 25 years after it was made, completely cold.Its story of a Cro-Magnon orphan being adopted into a tribe of Neanderthals and having to cope with prejudice and antagonism is absolutely fine. The events and motivations all seem entirely reasonable, and who is to say otherwise? The story progresses satisfactorily, is easy to follow (with subtitles and voice-over where necessary), the photography is lush and the performances aren't bad (I don't think you have to be particularly subtle to play an irritable Neanderthal).But there were a couple of elements which made the suspension of disbelief a little difficult. One was Daryl Hannah's tasty clean-haired blonde Cro-Magnon, just a little bit too 20th centurily gorgeous to convince as a stone age trailblazer for women's lib.And the other is the Neanderthal wigs. The prosthetics are, for the most part, fine (and appropriate, of course), but the wigs don't cut it, I'm afraid. They are so immobile that they might as well have been cast in plaster, and they scream, "This is an actor in a wig." And, of course, that's exactly what it is, but you don't want it hammered home during every second of screen time.