Early Man

[Norton Canes]

New Nick Park animated movie, all about a stone age tribe whose land is invaded by bronze-wielding French aggressors. For reasons that I'm sure make complete sense, the cavemen end up challenging the continentals to a football match.

You must know the Aardman drill by now - all the characters have massive teeth and shoot lots of quizzical glances at each other, and there are on average about sixteen sight gags a minute. Seems to be getting pretty good reviews... hey, you can start Googling if you want to find out more.

I haven't seen it yet but noticing the title followed by the BBFC classification and knowing that it was about stone-age football, I loved that they combine to read

Early Man (U)

[madhair60]

Cavemen + Football = Arsed; cigs

[mothman]

It's been out a while, though? It was OK. Nothing really earth-shattering TBH. Formulaic, and much less sight gags than I'd expect.

[asids]

Yes, this has been out for a month or two. It's quite good, nothing spectacular, but good. I did get a couple of hearty laughs out of it. Not much more to say really.

[Kelvin]

Fucking hate Wallace and Gromit.

Best thing about Peter Sallis dying.

[Mister Six]

I haven't seen it yet but noticing the title followed by the BBFC classification and knowing that it was about stone-age football, I loved that they combine to read

Early Man (U)

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Aardman lost their edge for me somewhere between The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave.

I'm glad they're still making stuff, because most studios are doing just CGI animation now, and somebody needs to keep stop motion alive.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Someone is.