Homo Erectus Movie 2007 -

If you stumbled upon a dusty DVD or a late-night cable listing for Homo Erectus (2007), you might have expected a National Geographic-style docudrama. Instead, you found National Lampoon’s Homo Erectus —a film so obscure that even Wikipedia seems unsure whether to classify it as a comedy, a tragedy, or a tax write-off. The film stars Adam Rifkin (who also wrote and directed) as Ishbo , a prehistoric everyman living in the uncivilized world of 2 million BC. Unlike his brutish, grunting peers who are content with clubbing seals and dragging women by the hair, Ishbo is a sensitive, intellectual proto-hippie. He dreams of art, poetry, and—much to the tribe’s confusion—monogamy.

The film was shot in 2006 and dumped onto DVD in January 2007—traditionally a graveyard month for movies the studios have no faith in. It received a tiny theatrical release in a handful of drive-ins under the alternative title Uggly , before being rebranded as National Lampoon’s Homo Erectus for video stores. Homo Erectus Movie 2007

The plot kicks off when Ishbo’s tribe, led by the muscle-bound Thudnik (Hayes MacArthur), challenges him to prove his manhood. His mission: invent “fire,” “the wheel,” or at least a better deodorant made of mud. Along the way, he befriends a philosophical chimpanzee named Fardart (voiced with surreal deadpan by David Carradine) and falls for the beautiful, slightly more evolved Fardart (Ali Larter). If you stumbled upon a dusty DVD or