Angesiedelt in der Vorzeit, als urzeitliche Kreaturen und wollige Mammuts die Erde bevölkerten, erzählt EARLY MAN, wie der gewitzte Steinzeitmensch Dug zusammen mit seinem Kumpel, dem prähistorischen Wildschwein Hognob seinen Stamm dazu bringt, gemeinsam den Kampf gegen die überheblichen Bronzezeitmenschen aufzunehmen und sich mit seinen ganz eigenen Mitteln durchschlägt. (Quelle: Verleih)
We've been looking forward to another dose of zany claymation, haven't you? This one promises to delight just about everyone, especially fans of Shaun the Sheep, and, well, British football.
Writing in THE ATLANTIC, critic David Sims sums up the film: "Early Man is a Neolithic narrative shot through with the old-fashioned earnestness of all of Park’s claymation films. He’s taken a story of flint-wielding cavemen clashing with heavily armored Bronze Age warriors and turned it into a tale of an epic soccer rivalry between good stout English folks and fancy puffed-up Frenchmen. It’s just about the biggest cliché one could imagine for a British animated feature. And yet like any Park film, it’s pretty charming, the kind of kids movie that finds the right mix of slapstick humor and intelligent storytelling to keep everyone in the audience happy."