I like The Flintstones, and I am a fan of the animated series, so it's inevitable I would watch this movie at some point. I enjoyed it for what it was as a child - it was okay! I remember the animated show appearing on Boomerang, and use to watch plenty of episodes especially before heading off to school. It's just a stand-alone movie to the animated series, and there's not much difference between the two - really! It was good that it was made since The Flintstones was still a popular show back then otherwise it never would've been made. The movie shouldn't be taken too seriously, and should be enjoyed for what it was. Yes, it does have flaws, and the story can seem a bit vague, but that shouldn't stop you from enjoying it. If you're a fan of The Flintstones, watch it otherwise don't. Just be glad that there is actually a movie about this show. The Flintstones is another one of these cool 90s movies we've been blessed with.

Alright, I admit it: the only reason I watched this merchandise-selling spielbergian fluff was to trash it here afterwards. Guilty as charged. (And not the first time, either.) I remember well the mega-hype, the incessant advertising surrounding this crap 20 years ago, and knew (as any sane person did) that this celluloid junk wasn't to be considered even as a potential time-waster on the dullest rainy afternoon.Did I have ANY hopes at all that this garbage based on a mediocre kiddy cartoon could possibly surprise me? Of course not. Any movie that expects us to laugh at or with Rosie O'Donnell and Liz Taylor (ironically, the only genuine-looking large lizards) is doomed from the start. Not to mention that even as a kid I'd considered nearly all Hanna-Barbera cartoons as vastly inferior to Disney, Warner Brothers, MGM and others.In a sense, though, the movie was better than I'd expected: I'd foreseen giving a 0/10 film but ended up dishing out a generous 1/10 rating instead. Naturally, this is only due to IMDb's rating system. IMDb is to blame that I can't allocate the appropriate number to this utterly useless pile of "comedic" debris. Normally I'm quite content with the 1 as the lowest rating – given that even a 3 signifies horse-manure - but I can't get rid of this ugly feeling of insulting all the 1-rated movies by giving this bull-manure a number larger than Nirvana.TF is fascinating though. It is absolutely fascinating how a bunch of Hollywood dummies managed to get together and get EVERYTHING wrong. (Not that any film-maker could have made a good live-action movie out of the "The Flintstones"; this was CLEARLY mission impossible.) No aspect of this embarrassing "comedy" had not been brought down to the level of a school play: from the mostly abysmal casting to the grotesque/ugly (as opposed to cute) creatures to the unsuitable story-line to the cringe-worthy Porky's-level "humour"; this mega-turkey flops on every conceivable level."Supply and demand… corporate embezzlement… street protests…" Did I dream it? How many kids understand these terms? There is even a lynch mob scene, complete with a noose: is this the stuff of family pictures? I admit that my last viewing of the TV show was back when I was around 8, but I don't recall any episodes in which Wall Street terminology was being thrown around. Clearly, some money-obsessed Hollywood yuppie must have written this script, completely neglecting to consider themes and topics that kids are interested in and familiar with. Even the B-grade writers who concocted all those inferior stories in the overrated TV original knew better than to make corporate fraud the central premise of a dumb lowest-common-denominator caveman comedy. That Spielberg would actually OK this plot – plus the totally irrational casting of Rosie as Betty – speaks volumes about what an overrated film-maker he is.Then again, TF isn't really a family picture. Usage of the term "family picture" presupposes that adults can enjoy the movie as well as kids. Speaking of which, TF isn't for kids either; I doubt there are many 5 year-olds daft enough to laugh at this uninspired collection of bargain-basement "gags". No; even they are too old for this crap. The only demographic group that might be suitable for this garbage is infants. They fulfill all the criteria: 1) their brains are light-years from being on par even with Sean Penn; 2) they haven't yet opened their eyes which spares them the badness of the visual "gags" – especially the incessant mugging; 3) they don't yet understand English which spares them the anguish of hearing and understanding all the awful dialog. Infants are almost ideally suited as an audience for trash such as this.The only way this forgettable franchise could have been transplanted onto the big screen with any measure of non-badness would have been to do it as an absurdist comedy in the ZAZ vein. Even then it would have been a tall order, even for the best writers, to make it work. But for the WORST Hollywood writers this was a ridiculously impossible task. Nevertheless, this pile of chicken droppings managed to rake in tons of money at the box-office, reminding us that idiocracy didn't start in this century.As of this writing, I've seen around 800 comedies. I wouldn't hesitate for a second to rank this malarkey in the Top 10 of the Worst Hollywood Comedies Ever Made. Rosie & co make Adam Sandler look like Chaplin. Even Jack Black fumbling about in a wrestling ring becomes high art next to John Goodman going "ya-ba-dubba-doo".

I am not a fan of the Flintstones cartoon. I never found them to be either entertaining or funny. In fact I remember hating the Flintstones, and that hatred still endures. That's a quality hate, the kind that endures for decades. When the movie came out I was baffled as to why it was made, I assumed it was because evil rules the world. Much later when I found the movie for sale on VHS for one dollar, I bought it under the hopes that maybe an ironic viewing might somehow redeem this movie. Irony could not save the Flintstones. My only option left is fire, it's up to fire now to save this movie or destroy it. I believe in the power of fire to right our wrongs.

When Fred (John Goodman) gets promoted, evil sleazy executive Cliff Vandercave (Kyle MacLachlan) sees a stupid patsy to take the blame for his embezzling scheme. First Fred is forced to fire Barney (Rick Moranis), then the rest of the employees. Then he signs all kinds of memos without reading them. It all comes back to haunt him when the embezzling comes to light.This is a live action take on the classic cartoon. I actually like the visual styles. It's got the crazy rock look. But they needed more colors and brighter colors. The story is too serious. Not only is there scheming, but also fighting, firing people, money troubles and kidnapping. It's a children's cartoon. There is too much danger especially for the kids. It needs to be much lighter.