It's obvious from the start that the actors playing the youthful spear throwing cavemen are far past voting age, and in this clean shaven ancient world that there's a barber shop in one of those caves. It doesn't take much of a look past the posters and lobby cards of this early American International programmer that this will not be a realistic view of the pre-civilized world. Clean cut young "actors" look as if they've just set forth off UCLA's campus, with beards added to the older characters to express the difference between the generations. Seen among the giant dinosaurs, lizards and snakes are a variety of modern mammals, including bears, deer, horses and packs of "wild" dogs that look easily domesticatable.
Then, there's the script, overwritten with overly thoughtful philosophies, spoken in amateurish tones that makes this simply just too silly not to ridicule. Even so, there's an element of sweetness to this, and that makes this endearing as a fun bad movie. Future TV star Robert Vaughn is as sincere as he can be. Of the rest of the cast, only Ed Nelson seems to have gone on to other memorable roles. The settings take the prehistoric characters from the obvious sets of Runyeon canyon to the stock footage of the ancient world, some of which oddly look like paintings. Some of the footage becomes painfully slow, although there are unintentional laughs here and there as well. So for me, it becomes a guilty pleasure that I won't soon forget with an epilogue that has to be seen to be believed and must have been added on when they realized that without it, there would be no way the young hunks in this film would be believable as "teenage cave men".
Then, there's the script, overwritten with overly thoughtful philosophies, spoken in amateurish tones that makes this simply just too silly not to ridicule. Even so, there's an element of sweetness to this, and that makes this endearing as a fun bad movie. Future TV star Robert Vaughn is as sincere as he can be. Of the rest of the cast, only Ed Nelson seems to have gone on to other memorable roles. The settings take the prehistoric characters from the obvious sets of Runyeon canyon to the stock footage of the ancient world, some of which oddly look like paintings. Some of the footage becomes painfully slow, although there are unintentional laughs here and there as well. So for me, it becomes a guilty pleasure that I won't soon forget with an epilogue that has to be seen to be believed and must have been added on when they realized that without it, there would be no way the young hunks in this film would be believable as "teenage cave men".