I loved that Link obviously had no concept of cliques or social status and simply liked everyone in that school.īefore long, Link’s escapades (which include eating a dissection frog, carjacking a driver’s ed sedan, and dancing like a maniac whenever anyone turns on some tunes) start to shift the status quo around the school. He’s incredibly physical in all he does and makes me laugh more often than not with his innocent naivete. Link, as the caveman is dubbed, is played with such earnest barbaric charm by Brendan Fraser in a role that I will love him forever for. (As an aside, I have a theory that all of Astin’s characters are actually the same one immortal Hobbit that started in Middle-earth, grew up as a Goonie, went to high school in Encino, played football at Notre Dame, and then became a medic who fought terrorists in the Rockies.)Īnyway, one day Dave and Stoney discover a frozen caveman in Dave’s backyard, thaw him out, pass him off as an exchange student (from Estonia), and enroll him into high school in the hopes that he might make them cool. Trying to explain what the Weasel is will make anyone sound deranged, so suffice to say that it’s all about melding a slacker with near-indecipherable lingo.
At the start we are introduced to best friends Dave (Sean Astin) and Stoney (Pauly Shore), who are running out the clock on their senior year of high school without ever having done anything significant.Įncino Man was when Pauly Shore’s Weasel routine took off in pop culture for about six minutes, and what a glorious six minutes those were. It was like the last gasp of the crazy ’80s before everything came crashing down into depression and bad CGI.Įncino Man is a tight 90-minute trip that involves two losers, one caveman, weird lingo, and the most ’90s wardrobe ever. This was all about bright colors and bizarre setups and a soundtrack that wasn’t the Cranberries moaning about zombies. Later, I came to re-appreciate Encino Man for being a goofy time capsule of the early ’90s before grunge and Gen X angst soured the pop culture landscape.
ENCINO MAN 1992 FULL MOVIE MOVIE
This movie and The Mighty Ducks are seared into my subconscious from that time at the video store. I’m not exaggerating with that number there. There was some obvious wish fulfillment going on when I would put this on repeat, and I must’ve seen Encino Man a hundred or more times before I left that job for college.
It was goofy, had a lot of funny lines, an infectious energy, and best of all, was about a loser kid (like me!) who got all accepted by his peers before the end credits. Each one of us at the store had our own roster of flicks that we’d pop into the VCR, and among mine was Encino Man. We were allowed to play whatever movies we wanted to on the monitors hanging in the corners, as long as those movies were G or PG or a very, very, very soft PG-13. In my mind, a video store job was the best you could hope for as a kid, because you got paid to marinate in a movie environment and even watch some when the crowds thinned out. So back in high school in the early 1990s, I was very much a nerdy loner who didn’t do much after school other than play video games and work at a video store tucked inside of a supermarket. Don’t worry - there’s a review at the end of it. To explain why, I need to tell you a story. Justin’s review: This is going to be a very strange statement coming from a middle-aged geek in 2021, but Encino Man might well be one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time. Justin’s rating: Don’t SHOOOOSH me before you read this full review ‘Cause if I had the whole brady bunch thing happenin’ at my pad, I’d go grind over there, so dont tax my gig so hard-core cruster.” “If you’re edged ’cause I’m weazin all your grindage, just chill.
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