If you have slippery floors, you can help avoid your dog getting hurt by placing non-slip mats around the house. This is especially apparent whenever he shares the screen with Fraser, whose spirited commitment to the role of the vacant-eyed manchild Neanderthal is equal parts admirable and concerning.Įlderly dogs may be prone to slipping and they are more susceptible to injury.
Even worse, he cannot seem to be bothered to give the performance any energy, frequently coming across like Bill & Ted on Nyquil. His character is obnoxious, speaking almost entirely in manufactured pseudo surfer dude lingo. There is also the matter of Pauly Shore, one of the more embarrassing pop culture icons of the 1990s. Brendan Fraser's clashing neon plaid wardrobe and Pauly Shore's pink mesh sweater are two of biggest eyesores to ever blemish the silver screen. The costumes in the film are garish, mismatched attempts at capturing the hip youth look. "Encino Man" is a parade of everything regrettable from the final decade of the 20th century.
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If you ever find yourself pining for all things 1990s, this movie will remind you why we left all that behind. "Encino Man" functions best as an anti-nostalgia film. And of course there is a choreographed dance number at the prom, because it what would a generic comedy be without a choreographed dance number? There is a halfhearted showdown with a bully character, but that too ends in the same lamebrain slapstick that comprises every other gag in the film. Eventually the movie just stops, without much of a climax. Try to stifle your laughter as Link fails to understand how a modern convenience works, followed by some form of slapstick joke. Wacky hijinks ensue for a majority of the second and third acts as Link fumbles his way through high school and other zany aspects of modern life, repeating the same joke over and over. Fox's lycanthropy in "Teen Wolf", the presence of a caveman in Dave and Stoney's company inexplicably increases the duo's popularity in school. The two twentysomething teens thaw out the caveman (played with embarrassingly dogged commitment by Brendan Fraser), dub him "Link", and decide to integrate him into the local high school. High school students Dave and Stoney (Sean Astin and Pauly Shore, both looking far too old to be playing teenagers) discover a frozen caveman while digging the foundation for a swimming pool in Dave's backyard. Yes, it's that good, buuuh-dy.The plot of "Encino Man" is standard fish-out-of-water comedy fare. To give you a ballpark comparison, it's au pair with Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I also enjoyed the fact that the underdogs were the protagonists here. The other actors are also good, there's great dialogue, and the babes are babe-alicious. Like I said, I really enjoyed Pauly Shore here. Man seems to be set in atavistic struggle against pre-human (and stoner dude), but luckily they eventually find their moral bearings: the humans learn the benefits of sticking together from their thawed-out friend, and the cro-magnon learns to go "halfies" on his microwave burrito. This goes terribly awry when the hunky pre-human becomes a hit with the ladies. Two likable social dropouts find a stone age survivor in their back yard, and decide to smuggle him into their school in order to heighten their own peer standing.
Luckily, the pretty goofy plot doesn't put it in harm's way. I see a lot of comedic and dramatic talent in him, and it's a shame that he seems to have fallen out of favour recently.
When I read that he comes from a family of comedians, I wasn't surprised. His figure is not just funny and dude-ish, but also eccentric and frail (almost a bit camp). The stoner-surfer-dude has been done ad nauseam in high-school comedies, but Pauly Shore is the stoner-surfer-dude to rule all other stoner-surfer-dudes. Well, he may be a one-trick-comedian, but at least at he's the godfather of this one trick. And Pauly Shore is my god now, he really made this movie. "Encino Man" is thoroughly enjoyable, and one of the best movies of its genre. Also, the premise of high-school kids finding a thawed-up "cro-magnon" man and becoming friends with him didn't bide well, so I kind of watched this out of completism and deep-rooted cinematic masochism. I expected the usual stoner-gross-out-high-school-comedy and had also heard that Pauly Shore was a comedic one-trick-pony (I'd read about all those Razzies he had been awarded).