Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Majorthebys Charming and brutal

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

bheadher Once in a while a movie comes out that simply grabs your attention and won't let go. That is Clan of the Cave Bear. The cinematography is very well done, and the acting is top notch, without one word of English (Except for the subtitles, of course, to let you know what the strange sounds and grunts mean). How do you project Neanderthals ? With feelings. That's why I really like this one, the characters aren't portrayed as brutes, but rather as real people. Even with a script using one word dialog, you always get what is being conveyed...I'll always watch Clan of the Cave Bear, whenever someone puts it on TV...

jenny_claire-33619 Hi, this is a bit disappointing but watchable. Surely with better cinematography now a days they could do a better film and series of all the books. I want to watch more. Would love to see more of the following books to movie. Do want to see what happening to Ayla on the movies. Have read the books, now want watch a movie. Hope you will think of doing more movies. You just need a better movie writer or the original movie writer to to think of a better way to write this that will actually bring people to watch the movie. And maybe use some of the original actresses and actors, but use them as older versions of them. Would love to see more. I like this movie, but would love it if you decided to do them.

Neil Welch Many years ago I tried starting to read Jean M Auel's novel. Despite the fact that it is very much my kind of thing, I could never get into it. So I come to the movie, 25 years after it was made, completely cold.Its story of a Cro-Magnon orphan being adopted into a tribe of Neanderthals and having to cope with prejudice and antagonism is absolutely fine. The events and motivations all seem entirely reasonable, and who is to say otherwise? The story progresses satisfactorily, is easy to follow (with subtitles and voice-over where necessary), the photography is lush and the performances aren't bad (I don't think you have to be particularly subtle to play an irritable Neanderthal).But there were a couple of elements which made the suspension of disbelief a little difficult. One was Daryl Hannah's tasty clean-haired blonde Cro-Magnon, just a little bit too 20th centurily gorgeous to convince as a stone age trailblazer for women's lib.And the other is the Neanderthal wigs. The prosthetics are, for the most part, fine (and appropriate, of course), but the wigs don't cut it, I'm afraid. They are so immobile that they might as well have been cast in plaster, and they scream, "This is an actor in a wig." And, of course, that's exactly what it is, but you don't want it hammered home during every second of screen time.

Seersha1 I admit, I was disappointed. Having been a fan of the books since I was 14, I was at least hoping to enjoy the film but felt sadly let down. There was just something lost - perhaps the magic - that the books had. And Daryl Hannah was far too old to play Ayla at 11 or whatever. The second girl to play Ayla should have stayed on for the rest of the movie, she looked about the right age. And I was sad to not see more of Brun. In the book you get a sense of the respect between Ayla and Brun that was missing in the movie. In fact I think this is an overall issue, that I feel the connections were not strong enough between the characters. Still, the movie is interesting if only to see the interpretation of the language, and look of the era.