The Flintstones

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Release Date:Rating:

January 1st, 1994

Genres:

Comedy, Family

Subgenres:

Prehistoric

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Cliff Vandercave and Miss Stone has plans to steal the Slate and Co. fortune. They decide to use Fred to take the rap, and all of a sudden Fred gets a promotion up to the Executive Suite (a part of...

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Directed: Brian Levant Written: Steven E. De Souza, Jim Jennewein, Tom S. Parker
Starring: John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan

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Love the classic tv show from the 60's the movie is a good movie with a ok story i give it a 3
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Posted mar 8, 2007 12:01 pm pt

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Flintstones meet the Flintstones! HAHA! This movie was really good! I liked it! But Barney was really tall in this movie, taller than Betty! This movie had a good plot, a good story.

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Posted mar 2, 2007 4:20 pm pt

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First and foremost this is a kids movie, it's jokes are aimed at kids, and pretty much everything else is too, not for someone in their mid-20's. The movie seems more like the The Honeymooners, set in the stone age, but that's what the cartoon was...
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Posted feb 6, 2007 3:40 pm pt

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Its good.. but not that good!

Yeah okay, there is some funny moments and a not so bad story. But, you don't get addicted to this movie because you're often bored.

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Posted dec 19, 2006 9:26 am pt

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[+] Time

80

And while more than 30 writers worked on the screenplay and untold numbers labored to re-create the ambiance and effects that the animators once tossed off with a few squiggles of their pencils, The Flintstones doesn't feel overcalculated, over-produced or overthought.
by Richard Schickel | Read Full Review »
[+] Entertainment Weekly

75

The Flintstones is a big, shiny package of comic nostalgia, as much a theme park as a movie.
by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
[+] The New York Times

70

The greatest lost opportunity in The Flintstones is that its writers (more than 30) are so faithful to the 60's television series that they failed to add enough updated pop-culture references. The few included are among the film's best jokes.
by Caryn James | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Sun-Times

63

This is a great-looking movie, a triumph of set design and special effects, creating a fantasy world halfway between suburbia and a prehistoric cartoon.
by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
[+] TV Guide

63

Rarely has more high-powered movie technology been deployed to achieve such frivolous ends. Kids seem to love it, while sophisticated viewers may find it enchanting, appalling, or both.
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[+] Variety

60

After lightly going through the motions of a plot, it all ends up in the quarry, where assorted machinery provides the excuse for a parade of slapstick gags and amusement park-like predicaments that seem mostly lumbering.
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[+] Los Angeles Times

50

Like "The Addams Family" before it, this is one of those clever, lively and ultimately wearying pieces of showy Hollywood machinery where a glut of creativity has gone into the visuals with only scraps left over for the plot and the dialogue. [27 May 1994 Pg.F1]
by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
[+] Austin Chronicle

50

They're admirable attempts to update the old cartoon's broad social satire and add some depth to these characters, but they're played too gravely (gravelly?) to work in this wild world, and they don't prompt the same silly satisfaction that the show did.
by Robert Faires | Read Full Review »
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50

The quality of the writing is more than a notch below that of our show. Most of the jokes aren't as witty, and the laughs come less frequently. Maybe it's because so many of the things they do in the movie are lifted directly from the show, but a lot of stuff seems stale.
by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
[+] Empire

40

Sadly the plot leaves a lot to be desired with major flaws never far away. The in-jokes are amusing but their novelty soon begins to wear thin.
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[+] USA Today

38

The transition from Hanna-Barbera animation to manic-barbaric live action falls flatter than a granite slab, from the first of many deadly stone-age wordplays - "Steven Spielrock Presents" - to the gross-out shots of dirty tootsies. [27 May 1994 Pg. 01.D]
by Susan Wloszczyna | Read Full Review »
[+] The New Yorker

20

The cast looks sound enough--John Goodman as Fred Flintstone, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma, Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell as the Rubbles--but the script, cobbled together by a crowd of writers, gives them nothing but a handful of limp gags.
by Anthony Lane | Read Full Review »
[+] Washington Post

10

Leadenly directed and almost soberly scripted, it never captures the campy brightness of the original series -- the herky-jerky animation, the wacky sound effects, the distinctive character voices and that cheesy laugh track.
by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
[+] Washington Post

10

The "stone"-shtick gets mighty old after about 15 minutes. More than 30 screenwriters worked on the Flintstones script, and the result just proves the ancient saying about too many cooks.
by Staff(Not credited) | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Reader

0

Considering the 32 writers (including Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, and Steven E. de Souza) who worked on this live-action adaptation of the 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series about a Stone Age family, one might have expected a few funny lines here and there, but this is mirthless (and worthless) from top to bottom.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »

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