National Lampoon’s Stoned Age – Unrated (aka Homo Erectus/Paramount DVD)
Picture: C
Sound: C Extras: D Film: D
So what
happens when a National Lampoon film bombs and fails to make money? It gets retitled and dumped on DVD, what is
exactly what happened with the especially bad National Lampoon’s Stoned Age, first released as Homo Erectus in 2007. It wants to be Mel Brooks’ History Of The World or the like and fails miserably on
all levels, including trashing its cast including David Carradine, Talia Shire
and others.
Outside
of teens in modern times, the franchise is adrift and even if they picked this
up as an afterthought, why? It is gross,
dumb, tired, predictable and all the drugs in the world could not improve it. Ignore, ignore, ignore.
Though the
back of the case indicates 1.33 x 1 Full Screen, we actually get a very fuzzy,
hazy, color-challenged, anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image that is as
forgettable as anything, while the Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 mixes are
shockingly weak. Extras include a comic
book that is hardly legible, bloopers/outtakes, director’s commentary, viral
videos, deleted scenes, shorts and four featurettes.
- Nicholas Sheffo
