Pretty heroine Ward is boring, consistently upstaged by her feistier and sexier friend Robin Tunney. Top-billed Astin has little to do except tag along with Fraser, who’s winsome as the highly physical, imitative caveman. Film is nominally a vehicle for MTV comic Pauly Shore, who flunks out on screen with his tediously unfunny patter and smaller-than-life personality. Schepps’ script sidesteps the buddies’ ultimate confrontation in favor of a handy earth tremor spitting out a cavegirl (who looks like a Valley Girl) for Fraser as a finale.ĭebuting feature director Les Mayfield exhibits low aptitude for comedy, resorting to pratfalls and food sloppiness for laughs. Only tension is that he wins the hearts of femmes, including Astin’s dream girl Megan Ward. Of course Fraser is an instant hit with the other students. Pic’s sci-fi pretense is immediately abandoned in favor of lame regurgitation of mid-’80s teen comedies like Orion’s “The Heavenly Kid.” Astin and Shore contrive to pass off Fraser as a transfer student to Encino High and hope that his coolness will bring them popularity as his pals.
Film proceeds to duplicate intact its trailer’s sequence of Astin and buddy Pauly Shore bathing and styling the caveman while Right Said Fred’s catchy song “I’m Too Sexy” plays on the soundtrack.
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