Product: La Guerre du feu (1982)
Rating: 1.0
i am an ANTHROPOLOGIST (i am biased and there are spoilers)
first off, read ANY book about paleoanthropology written in the last thirty years and you will discover that just about every inaccuracy possible is present in this film. if you want a laugh watch it. if you are interested in a truly anthropologically correct film, watch "Nova" or something on the discovery channel. The species presented in this film did not even exist and the phylogenetic traits presented in the "cro-magnons(which are not even recognized as a species)" completely bogus, as they are closer to neandertals than they are to modern humans (read anything by Don Johanson). and the domestication of the mastadons, yeah that really happened; megafauna hunting probably did not even happen, so obviously we made friends with giant animals which would crush us if they thought we were even close to being a threat to them. the missionary position creating the nuclear family is also a lie. sex does not make us human, the bonobo chimps use sex the same way as humans, and presumbly for just as long (and they use the missionary position as well). all in all, this movie is worth it if you are looking for a laugh, but if you are looking for anything close to the actual paleoanthropological record you need to look somewhere else.