Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

TEENAGE CAVEMAN is a film that masquerades as a prehistoric-futuristic B-movie adventure, a remake of a '50s vehicle starring Robert Vaughn. In reality, it's another tale of teenage excess from director Larry Clark, the guy who made the controversial KIDS back in the mid-'90s. After some uninspired scene-setting, he throws us deep into a tale of lust, drugs, and teenage orgies in a 20 minute centrepiece involving copious amounts of nudity, drug taking, and sexuality.This film is part of a Creature Features set of TV movie remakes that were produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, one of the leading producers behind the original wave of '50s B-movies. TEENAGE CAVEMAN may well be the worst of these remakes, as it has nothing to do with the original film and it isn't even a creature feature. It's simply an excuse for director Clark to tackle his favourite theme, teenage sexuality, and of course his aims are totally at odds with the other films in the series, which all focused on bloody mayhem and crazy monsters.The acting is sub standard and the dialogue simply atrocious. Nothing happens for about an hour or so in the middle of the film, although things do pick up right at the end as we're subject to decapitations, impalements, and one character turning into a schlocky, rubbery looking 'beast' man before being blown up. These last reel antics are not enough to lift the film's entertainment value from null, though, as they come far too late.

Watching Larry Clark's Teenage Caveman, I felt as if I was being Punk'd, especially when one character tells another she looks like "she's in a bad B-movie." Clark has made a career out of being subversive and downright wild behind the camera, capturing adolescent debauchery and lawless behavior amongst youth with a frightening authenticity, mainly because Clark's own adolescent was dominated by intimate photography and heavy drug use.By the time Teenage Caveman was made, Clark had developed a name for himself with his shocking film Kids, his solid sophomore effort Another Day in Paradise, and his brutally honest Bully, released a year prior. I'd say he was on a role, with one strong film after another at the time. With Clark's already established filmography, I can only assume and guess why he wanted to dive into the often doomed realm of modern odes to campy science- fiction pictures of yesteryear. The story exists in a post-apocalyptic world where a great deal of humanity has been erased thanks to a viral epidemic. The few remaining souls have resorted to tribalism in the regard that they gather in packs and rely on basic human instinct to get by, as if their common sense, morality, and values have all been extracted along with the epidemic.A group of survivors, all teens, soon come in contact with two people who have been genetically altered and modified in order to combat the epidemic and now reside in a city reliant off of solar power. They have their own vision of humanity, although we never really grasp what that may be. The two groups collide and what ensues is pure madness as each try to assert dominance as well as go about their own agendas.The teens have virtually no personality, so to name them is a worthless exercise. The film, if it should be remembered as anything besides what seems to be a go- for-broke filmmaking attempt by Clark, should be seen as a solid showcase for talents of Richard Hillman, who plays one of the genetically-altered humans. Hillman handles this offbeat character effectively, that is, until emotions rings true in the last act. Up until then, however, he is great fun to watch and his frantic acting talents are a rarity that are nice to see unfold before us. Other than Hillman, nobody else shines, particularly because their characters are so thinly written. But even that is a non- issue compared to the fact that the film is just terribly uninteresting. Clark tries to infuse the story with the coldness of teen sex and relations and it's a move that is more fun to comment on than actually watch. The futuristic setting, especially in the context of a viral epidemic and mutant forces, just doesn't make for an interesting time period on sex and adolescent bonding. It seems that beneath the rubbish, Clark had the idea of making this film one that would potentially see sex in the future as an action robbed of its intentional purpose - to produce love and pleasure. An overarching theme in Clark's filmography is the loss of meaningful sex, and here, the meaning is muddled to the point where sex means as much as a spur-of-the-moment kiss or hug but with even less sentiment and passion. With this idea as my only justification for the material at hand, Clark seems to be going for some attempt at commentary lodged firmly inside a story that acts as an homage to the corny, ultra-low- budget science-fiction films from the thirties, forties, and fifties. I admire the courage and the subversiveness completely but, in the end, I sigh at the result. Teenage Caveman will forever be etched in Clark's filmography, replacing another film potentially having a great amount of insight and braver filmmaking.Starring: Richard Hillman, Tiffany Limos, Andrew Keegan, Tara Subkoff, and Stephen Jasso. Directed by: Larry Clark.

Okay, so the film isn't great, but who cares? I honestly prefer this to something like star wars, which has the same lack of content except that your expected to take it seriously. In fact, I like this film quite a bitThe sex scenes go a little overboard, but I appreciate it more for the fact that it reminds me of going to high school as an adolescent, from the perspective of Neil...sometimes you're the super-cool guy going to parties, drinking, sleeping with girls, other times you're heartbroken by the person you care most about, and sometimes you're the mutant freakthat and any movie with a soundtrack including the misfits is good by me

OK yea so i guess when you get passed the exploding bodies, the pointless sex scenes, the lack of plot, and the constant discontinuity it's not bad. But since this movie involves all of the above, it is bad. It's definitely a movie that just doesn't seem to come together very well. I guess there are these kids that are in the future and that there is some disease that is passed through sex, and that somehow this disease causes people to explode. At the same time you got the two like leaders of the group trying to spread it so that they can transform all the kids into like super caveman. Confused? I thought so. This is a movie that leaves you wondering after you watch it "what the hell just happened?" and you try to put everything back together unsuccessfully until you just quit, and hope that you forget about this movie on all planes of existence.