Il più grande uomo scimmia del Pleistocene

There's a lot of story here but for some reason the people that made this movie decided to throw a lot of it out. Back in 1994 Roy Lewis, a British author, wrote a satirical book called "Evolution Man: Or How I Ate My Father". It's a wickedly funny book about a group of upwardly mobile hominids from the dawn of time. The father has just discovered fire and is learning about it's uses. Mother makes sure her kids finish all the toad on their plate before being excused from the table. Junior has made the first cave painting. And Uncle thinks that coming down from the trees and making flint tools will eventually lead to them being killed in a big bloody war. It's satire of modern issues and ideas set several million years ago. And one day somebody decided to make a movie about it. And it's awful.

From what I understand there's two versions of this movie. There's the original French that goes into more detail and there's the butchered English version that cuts out certain scenes. I haven't seen the English version so I can only speak of the French version. And even then, it's terrible.

Now the animation is... okay. There's nothing ground breaking here. It's adequate in a Saturday morning cartoon kind of way. But for some reason they decided to give the apes in this family very human looking faces. And my god, they go straight into the uncanny valley. They're downright terrifying. That coupled with how they move in rather cartoonish ways just increases the uncomfortable feeling you get.

I wanted to watch this movie to see how bad it could be. But by about the thirty minute mark I just couldn't take it any more. I couldn't focus on the story, which was butchered I might add, because every few seconds the faces kept bothering me.

Don't watch this movie. It'll give you nightmares. Read the book instead.