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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Caveman, it builds broad, nearly dialogue-free physical comedy around a naive community encountering disruptive new inventions, with an affectionate adventure tone and escalating sight gags.
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Why this pick
This shares Caveman’s prehistoric setting, anachronistic humour, banished underdogs and loose quest structure, while playing ancient survival and social customs as cheerfully silly adventure.
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Why this pick
A deliberately absurd prehistoric farce whose tribe-based rivalries and comic invention of everyday concepts suit Caveman’s fondness for primitive-world nonsense rather than realism.
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Why this pick
Its stone-age world turns modern conveniences into visual puns, matching Caveman’s central pleasure in watching a prehistoric society stumble toward familiar ideas.
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Why this pick
For Caveman’s taste for shameless anachronism and sketchy historical parody, this offers fast, joke-dense journeys through exaggerated ancient civilizations and social rituals.
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01 / THE STORY
Atouk (Ringo Starr) is a bullied and scrawny caveman living in "One Zillion BC – October 9th". He lusts after the beautiful but shallow Lana (Barbara Bach), who is the mate of Tonda (John Matuszak), their tribe's physically imposing bullying leader and brutish instigator. After being banished along with his friend Lar (Dennis Quaid), Atouk falls in with a band of assorted misfits, among them the comely Tala (Long) and the elderly blind man Gog (Jack Gilford). The group has ongoing encounters with hungry dinosaurs, and rescues Lar from a "nearby ice age", where they encounter an Yeti. In the course of these adventures they discover sedative drugs, fire, invent cooking, music, weapons, and learn how to walk fully upright. Atouk uses these advancements to lead an attack on Tonda, overthrowing him and becoming the tribe's new leader. He rejects Lana and takes Tala as his mate, and they live happily ever after.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Tonda
Ock
Ta
Ruck
Kalta
Folg
Bork
Atouk
