The Clan of the Cave Bear

The filmmakers made no effort to empathize with their prehistoric characters, to imagine what it might have really been like back then. Read full review

The Clan of the Cave Bear is dog. [27 Jan 1986, p.69]

Clan's greatest fault, however, is simply that it is an epic bore. [28 Feb 1986, p.11]

The cinematic adaptation of the novel, however, is so laughably awful that Auel later sued the producers for creating such an inaccurate work. Read full review

It's all as foolish as can be, and tedious in the bargain. The Clan of the Cave Bear acts as a parody of the earlier, more accomplished Quest for Fire, but since even that film was funny despite itself, this is not much of an accomplishment. On the evidence, it is hard to tell which way Hannah, who was Ron Howard's mermaid in Splash, is traveling on the old evolutionary ladder. [27 Man 1986, p.C6]