The Flintstones (1994)
If there’s such a thing as a perfect movie, The Flintstones is it. It’s absolutely hilarious, with no downtime and no dated jokes. If you’ve seen the original Hanna Barbara cartoon, you’ll probably pee from laughing so hard, and if you haven’t, well, you’ll still probably pee from laughing so hard. I saw this movie in the theaters when I was a little girl and laughed my head off, thinking it was the first movie to ever make caveman jokes. Just last week, I watched my DVD for the hundredth time and laughed just as hard.
John Goodman as Fred Flintstone, Rick Moranis as Barney Rubble, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma, and Rosie O’Donnell as Betty are all totally perfect. The original song is included at the start and end of the film, and all the throwbacks to the cartoon are side-splittingly funny. Modern touches are incredibly clever and tie in seamlessly to the setting. For example, the Flintstones go to the drive-in movies to watch “Gorge Lucas’s Tar Wars”, and the band The B-52s guest star in a swanky nightclub as “The BC-52s”.
In the film, Fred and Wilma help their best friends adopt a child, and in return, Barney helps Fred get a promotion at work. But, as the incredibly dumb Fred moves up the corporate ladder, he just might get duped by the slippery smooth Cliff, played by Kyle MacLachlin, and his secretary, a young Halle Berry who gets her own theme music whenever she walks in the room.
It’s silly and lovely, and best of all, Elizabeth Taylor puts the finishing touch on the film in her role as Wilma’s mom. It’s my favorite of her performances; pretty much every one of her lines has become a permanent phrase in my household. If only she’d been given more screen time! But, as she says in the movie, “Let’s not let a little thing like that spoil the party—Conga line!”
More Elizabeth Taylor movies here!
John Goodman as Fred Flintstone, Rick Moranis as Barney Rubble, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma, and Rosie O’Donnell as Betty are all totally perfect. The original song is included at the start and end of the film, and all the throwbacks to the cartoon are side-splittingly funny. Modern touches are incredibly clever and tie in seamlessly to the setting. For example, the Flintstones go to the drive-in movies to watch “Gorge Lucas’s Tar Wars”, and the band The B-52s guest star in a swanky nightclub as “The BC-52s”.
In the film, Fred and Wilma help their best friends adopt a child, and in return, Barney helps Fred get a promotion at work. But, as the incredibly dumb Fred moves up the corporate ladder, he just might get duped by the slippery smooth Cliff, played by Kyle MacLachlin, and his secretary, a young Halle Berry who gets her own theme music whenever she walks in the room.
It’s silly and lovely, and best of all, Elizabeth Taylor puts the finishing touch on the film in her role as Wilma’s mom. It’s my favorite of her performances; pretty much every one of her lines has become a permanent phrase in my household. If only she’d been given more screen time! But, as she says in the movie, “Let’s not let a little thing like that spoil the party—Conga line!”
More Elizabeth Taylor movies here!