movie remake of tv show have be notoriously fail miserably for some time ( but they keep get make anyway and for whatever reason ) and so it be inevitable that somebody would start churn out these remake base on classic cartoon . an early victim be the flintstone and a failed experiment that should have tell them not to do any more of these . quite simply and this movie stink like a pile of dinosaur droppings . the original cartoon poke innocent fun at mainstream america and creatively clothe it with prehistoric costume and primitive technology and focus on an everyday family and put them in wild situation . fred and wilma and barney and and betty be all likable and and we laugh at fred ridiculous scheme and the chaotic outcome . the spirit of the cartoon be non existent here . the character just argue and screw up and argue some more and screw up some more . people lie and cheat and and back stab . everyone be boorish and mean while and just make you angry . the script go nowhere and in story or comedy . joke do not work come to think of it and be there any joke even in this thing . or any comedy at all . wait represent one ( and only one ) thing be funny rosie odonnell have the betty rubble snicker down . that it . john goodman and rick moranis and and elizabeth perkins ( all normally good comic actor ) seem lose in this primeval slop . a for some other actor in the cast and they be so obnoxious i be hop a pterodactyl would sweep them up and toss them into a tar pit somewhere . if early man be like this and no wonder neanderthal go extinct .