Review of Cavegirl

Cavegirl (1985)
3/10
Boring
17 July 2016
"Cave Girl" is a movie about a dork who goes back in time when he enters a cave on a school excursion.

The movie spends very little time in the present day; only enough to establish that the guy is a dork, and get a quick topless scene out of the way (featuring Michelle Bauer).

The budget obviously didn't cover extensive use of a high school or even many other actors. The only other students we see are the trio of topless girls, who of course only do that one scene, and then a small, faceless group of people who play tricks on the dork.

The movie can't wait to go back in time where it won't cost as much, but this is where it gets boring. A high school as a setting works in better movies because there is life there. The desert, not so much, or at least not so much when filmed as badly as b-grade teen comedies are.

When our hero meets the cave girl of the title we see where the rest of the budget went. She's a generic babe they probably picked from Penthouse or whatever. The movie encounters problems immediately because it obviously has no idea what it's doing. There are other "characters" of grunting cavemen, but they add nothing. There's also a bear and a mountain lion who also add nothing.

Since this is set in North America, why are all the cavemen Caucasian? Shouldn't they be Native American in appearance?

Daniel Roebuck as the dork has nowhere near the charisma to carry a movie more or less single handed, and there's nothing else about the movie that makes you want to keep watching once it leaves the present day. Not even the babe makes it worth watching, and there's surprisingly little nudity from her, just a quick topless scene.
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