Synopsis
Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred helps Barney adopt a child. Barney sees an opportunity to repay him when Slate Mining tests its employees to find a new executive. But no good deed goes unpunished.
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Cast
- John GoodmanFred Flintstone
- Elizabeth PerkinsWilma Flintstone
- Rick MoranisBarney Rubble
- Rosie O'DonnellBetty Rubble
- Kyle MacLachlanCliff Vandercave
- Halle BerrySharron Stone
- Elizabeth TaylorPearl Slaghoople
- Dann FlorekMr. Slate
- Richard MollHoagie
- Irwin KeyesJoe Rockhead
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
The Flintstones is a big, shiny package of comic nostalgia, as much a theme park as a movie. - 70
The New York Times
The greatest lost opportunity in The Flintstones is that its writers (more than 30) are so faithful to the 60's television series that they failed to add enough updated pop-culture references. The few included are among the film's best jokes. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a great-looking movie, a triumph of set design and special effects, creating a fantasy world halfway between suburbia and a prehistoric cartoon. - 50
ReelViews
The quality of the writing is more than a notch below that of our show. Most of the jokes aren't as witty, and the laughs come less frequently. Maybe it's because so many of the things they do in the movie are lifted directly from the show, but a lot of stuff seems stale. - 50
Austin Chronicle
They're admirable attempts to update the old cartoon's broad social satire and add some depth to these characters, but they're played too gravely (gravelly?) to work in this wild world, and they don't prompt the same silly satisfaction that the show did. - 40
Empire
Sadly the plot leaves a lot to be desired with major flaws never far away. The in-jokes are amusing but their novelty soon begins to wear thin. - 20
The New Yorker
The cast looks sound enough—John Goodman as Fred Flintstone, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma, Rick Moranis and Rosie O'Donnell as the Rubbles—but the script, cobbled together by a crowd of writers, gives them nothing but a handful of limp gags. - 10
Washington Post
Leadenly directed and almost soberly scripted, it never captures the campy brightness of the original series -- the herky-jerky animation, the wacky sound effects, the distinctive character voices and that cheesy laugh track.
