Brost choreography, Peggy Holmes casting, Kathleen Letterie. Peter Robinson sound (Dolby), Robert Allan Wald production design, James Allen costume design, Marie France assistant director, Jerry Ketcham production manager, Frederic W. Screenplay, Shawn Schepps, from story by Zaloom, Schepps.Ĭamera (Technicolor), Robert Brinkmann editor, Eric Sears additional editor, Jonathan Siegel music, J. Starring Pauly Shore, ENCINO MAN unearths the biggest laughs in 2 million years The fun kicks off when two high school buddies dig up a frozen caveman in th. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Co-executive producer, Michael Rotenberg. Two high school buddies dig up a frozen caveman in their backyard Directors Les Mayfield Starring Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Megan Ward Genres Comedy Subtitles English CC Audio languages English. Michael DeLuise, who recently directed the Tanya Roberts sex comedy “Almost Pregnant,” overplays embarrassingly as the school bully who gets his comeuppance at the prom in an anticlimax.īest technical credit is Marie France’s costumes, which colorfully capture the Valley lifestyle.Ī Buena Vista release of a Hollywood Pictures presentation, in association with Touchwood Pacific Partners I. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround and a French soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Stereo. But the thawed-out Link (Brendan Fraser), as the boys have named him, quickly becomes a wild card in the teens' already zany Southern California. The film comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. High school misfits Stoney (Pauly Shore) and Dave (Sean Astin) discover a long-frozen primeval man from the past in their back yard.
Mariette Hartley and Richard Masur look bewildered as Astin’s parents. Les Mayfield directs Brendan Fraser in the fish-out-of-water comedy Encino Man. Pretty heroine Ward is boring, consistently upstaged by her feistier and sexier friend Robin Tunney. Top-billed Astin has little to do except tag along with Fraser, who’s winsome as the highly physical, imitative caveman. Film is nominally a vehicle for MTV comic Pauly Shore, who flunks out on screen with his tediously unfunny patter and smaller-than-life personality. Schepps’ script sidesteps the buddies’ ultimate confrontation in favor of a handy earth tremor spitting out a cavegirl (who looks like a Valley Girl) for Fraser as a finale.ĭebuting feature director Les Mayfield exhibits low aptitude for comedy, resorting to pratfalls and food sloppiness for laughs. Only tension is that he wins the hearts of femmes, including Astin’s dream girl Megan Ward. Of course Fraser is an instant hit with the other students. Pic’s sci-fi pretense is immediately abandoned in favor of lame regurgitation of mid-’80s teen comedies like Orion’s “The Heavenly Kid.” Astin and Shore contrive to pass off Fraser as a transfer student to Encino High and hope that his coolness will bring them popularity as his pals. Film proceeds to duplicate intact its trailer’s sequence of Astin and buddy Pauly Shore bathing and styling the caveman while Right Said Fred’s catchy song “I’m Too Sexy” plays on the soundtrack.
0 kommentar(er)
