OK, the viewer has to first get over the artistic license. Dinosaurs predated even the most primitive humans by about 60 million years and stone age guys and gals didn't trim their animal hides into bikinis and speed trunks---like stoned age ones might. A protective "momma" dinosaur and cute baby sibling dinosaur who think one of the bikini babes is part of their litter? And respond to human voice commands? Well, maybe that's how the Flintstones civilization got started. The film's dialogue is strictly in a "caveman" language consisting mostly of the words "akeeta" and "neesho". The Imdb. Description states that the producers devised a 27 word vocabulary taken from Phoenician, Latin, and Sanskrit.
Be the above as it may, this film is still a lot more realistic in many ways than similar ones. It is a fairly credible depiction of a late Paleolithic tribe in a coastal environment with complex social and religious practices. And their material culture seems to have at least some basis in archaeology as well as in anthropological studies of more recent hunter/gatherer societies. The spear shafts are often less than straight and the stone spearheads are irregularly shaped and varied. The nets, cordage, and huts really do appear to have been made entirely of natural plant fibers. Even the combats with the dinosaurs believably demonstrate how humans may have dealt with such situations if they ever had to. Although I doubt humans (unless tree dwelling and more apelike) could have survived in a dinosaur habitat prior to the invention of firearms.
The photography is great, with some stunning views of a very varied and sometimes otherworldly landscape---filmed in the Canary Islands, where a day hike can take one to tropical forest, rocky beachfront, and arid desert habitats. Another interesting and little known connection to "cavemen" are the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands, called collectively "Guanches", although the term originally referred only to those from Tenerife. They were a Caucasian people possibly related to the Berbers but no longer exist as a separate ethnic entity, although their genes survive, some people claim their ancestry, and there have been recent attempts to rediscover their heritage. Their origins are mysterious, but they were often depicted wearing animal skins like "cavemen". Not subdued until around 1500, they were a Neolithic culture that practiced agriculture, raised pigs and goats, mummified their dead, and built low stone buildings. However, they do not appear to have had any watercraft at all, much less the seaworthy rafts depicted in the movie. In fact, there was almost no contact between the seven islands, even though some could see others in clear weather. Pretty strange for an island people. Even if they really were the rebellious North Africans exiled there by the Romans as indicated by the chronicler Suetonius. He doesn't specify the location of the exile islands, but since the Canary Islands are less than 200 miles from the west coast of Morocco, this origin seems the most plausible.
An entertaining film experience for those who like this kind of movie. Real thrills, hot women---and some laughs.
Be the above as it may, this film is still a lot more realistic in many ways than similar ones. It is a fairly credible depiction of a late Paleolithic tribe in a coastal environment with complex social and religious practices. And their material culture seems to have at least some basis in archaeology as well as in anthropological studies of more recent hunter/gatherer societies. The spear shafts are often less than straight and the stone spearheads are irregularly shaped and varied. The nets, cordage, and huts really do appear to have been made entirely of natural plant fibers. Even the combats with the dinosaurs believably demonstrate how humans may have dealt with such situations if they ever had to. Although I doubt humans (unless tree dwelling and more apelike) could have survived in a dinosaur habitat prior to the invention of firearms.
The photography is great, with some stunning views of a very varied and sometimes otherworldly landscape---filmed in the Canary Islands, where a day hike can take one to tropical forest, rocky beachfront, and arid desert habitats. Another interesting and little known connection to "cavemen" are the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands, called collectively "Guanches", although the term originally referred only to those from Tenerife. They were a Caucasian people possibly related to the Berbers but no longer exist as a separate ethnic entity, although their genes survive, some people claim their ancestry, and there have been recent attempts to rediscover their heritage. Their origins are mysterious, but they were often depicted wearing animal skins like "cavemen". Not subdued until around 1500, they were a Neolithic culture that practiced agriculture, raised pigs and goats, mummified their dead, and built low stone buildings. However, they do not appear to have had any watercraft at all, much less the seaworthy rafts depicted in the movie. In fact, there was almost no contact between the seven islands, even though some could see others in clear weather. Pretty strange for an island people. Even if they really were the rebellious North Africans exiled there by the Romans as indicated by the chronicler Suetonius. He doesn't specify the location of the exile islands, but since the Canary Islands are less than 200 miles from the west coast of Morocco, this origin seems the most plausible.
An entertaining film experience for those who like this kind of movie. Real thrills, hot women---and some laughs.