Encino Man

1992 "When the stone age meets the rock age."
5.8| 1h28m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 22 May 1992 Released
Producted By: Hollywood Pictures
Country: United States of America
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High school misfits Stoney and Dave discover a long-frozen primeval man buried in their backyard. But the thawed-out Link—as the boys have named him—quickly becomes a wild card in the teens' already zany Southern California lives. After a shave and some new clothes, Link's presence at school makes the daily drudgery a lot more interesting.

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Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
djfrost-46786 This movie shows Pauly Shore at his best. So many great lines. Shhhhhhhhhhhhh. Can u say he's buff? The father from License To Drive is in it. Link------:) as if(lol). Stonage. This movie is better than average like movies today. Is it great? Nah, but in a 6 range.
david-sarkies This is a somewhat predictable Hollywood movie about two high school students. They start off as unpopular nerds and finish as popular. The ending is even mostly predictable at the beginning. Dave is digging a pool and his dream is that he get with his childhood sweetheart and have a huge party at his house after the prom. The problem with this is that he is unpopular and that the girl he likes is dating another guy, who is the toughest in the school. Things change when they uncover a cave man after an earthquake brings him up.This movie is about popularity and how people crave it. Dave is the focus and he is the one that wants the popularity, and he sees Link, the caveman, as his key. It comes to the point where this creates a wedge between him and Link. Link is popular, but he doesn't bring the popularity to him, and this is what he resents. He does grow though, and he comes to realise that popularity isn't everything, and it is not what he does, or who he knows, but who is his. Link simply does what he likes and generally doesn't care what others think.This is a fun movie, and the character of Link is actually quite deep in an unusual way. One wouldn't expect the character of a cave man to be deep, but he is. He is trapped in a strange world alone and this shows. Moreso, he doesn't go for any woman, even though they throw themselves at him. Rather he wants the woman he left behind and doesn't betray her memories by going after another woman.Stoney is the other main character and he is simply out to show Link a good time. Dave considers him irresponsible, but that is because Stoney's agenda does not line up with Dave's agenda. Stoney at first didn't want to help Link, but the more he got to know him, and showing him things, the more he began to appreciate things. Dave wants fame and money, Stoney simply doesn't care. He hangs around Dave because Dave really wants friends and will take anybody.I guess this is a good movie, and what it shows is that popularity isn't everything. Link was friends with everybody, and this is how he lasted. People are so clicky, especially Dave. He wanted to be in the in crowd, and rejected everybody else. Link didn't care and he befriended everybody, and as such he became popular. When Dave accepted this he found that he was already popular.It is interesting to see how Dave and the popular guy are very similar. Everybody knows this guy was a possessive jerk, and he lost the girl halfway through the movie, but we could see that Dave's self centeredness also made him a jerk. The thing is that Dave overcame this, while the popular guy was shown up to be what he really was like. Dave's highschool ended on a high, while the other guy crashed and burned.
ravi-putcha This movie is so awful and crappy that I can't blame myself enough for investing time to watch this crap. Brendan Fraser is the only reason anyone would even consider this movie.Can Pauly Shores be anymore pathetic? His mannerism looks so awful and brainless (which he portrayed anyway) that he looked like a drugged zombie. This movie oozes incompetence in all departments. The concept is extraordinarily dumb. I guess they don't have a screenplay, and if they do, it must be an absolute rubbish. But root of all this evil is with the direction and production - there is no casting to speak of, no production values, only pure nonsense beginning to end.I have seen bad movies, but this is worst of all.
Mutakk Although this movie didn't come out until 1992, my guess is it was written back in the mid 1980's, probably after Teen Wolf and Weird Science came out. It just seems like one of those harmless '80's teenager movies. I don't remember laughing very much either. There are a few scenes where Pauley Shore actually tries to act, managing to evoke sparks of true emotion, but otherwise Encino Man was kind of a yawnfest, especially compared to something like Airheads, also with Brandan Fraser, which is really really funny. The people who made Encino Man tried, and Megan Ward is hot, but like I said, if you're looking for funny, you might want to keep looking.