it's at times stupid..and it's all around FUNNY! Just one of those little movies that if you will allow yourself to put reality on hold for 90 minutes, it can and will charm the socks off of you.

pass out from laughing too hard. This one is definitely good for a laugh.....5/5.

you also have a little suspense - do they get caught or do they pull this whole farce off and get the girl? Am I going to tell you? No you need to get the movie and have a laugh.Great movie which I enjoy watching and seeing my 9 yr old laugh over also.

success.True, the whole thing's completely silly, but it doesn't pretend to be anything else. It's too bad that Pauly Shore later branched out into pathetically idiotic movies like "Bio-Dome", because "Encino Man" is a laugh riot.

one-trick-comedian, but at least at he's the godfather of this one trick. The stoner-surfer-dude has been done ad nauseam in high-school comedies, but Pauly Shore is the stoner-surfer-dude to rule all other stoner-surfer-dudes. His figure is not just funny and dude-ish, but also eccentric and frail almost a bit camp . When I read that he comes from a family of comedians, I wasn't surprised. I see a lot of comedic and dramatic talent in him, and it's a shame that he seems to have fallen out of favour recently.Anyway, the movie. Luckily, the pretty goofy plot doesn't put it in harm's way. Two likable social dropouts find a stone age survivor in their back yard, and decide to smuggle him into their school in order to heighten their own peer standing. This goes terribly awry when the hunky pre-human becomes a hit with the ladies. Man seems to be set in atavistic struggle against pre-human and stoner dude , but luckily they eventually find their moral bearings: the humans learn the benefits of sticking together from their thawed-out friend, and the cro-magnon learns to go "halfies" on his microwave burrito.Like I said, I really enjoyed Pauly Shore here. He made this movie. The other actors are also good, there's great dialogue, and the babes are babe-alicious. I also enjoyed the fact that the underdogs were the protagonists here.To give you a ballpark comparison, it's au pair with Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Yes, it's that good, buuuh-dy.

show with a great performance. Pauley Shore was pretty funny as well as the typical 90's stoner with the surfer vibe. As for Sean I had no idea he had been anything but Sam from LOTR. I just wanna say I believe that most of the people who rated this poorly prolly have a very weak sense of humor and most likely embraced the whole "Just say No" Nancy Reagan campaign to shocking proportions. All in all, simple and funny, and successfully captures the 90's grunge and stoner era, as well as the life of high school kids and their obstacles. 8/10.

Sean Astin, at this time, looked a lot like Corey Haim. Throw Feldman in the picture and replace Pauly in would be a great film. It still is funny. The downside is so much more could've been done with this plot.The film doesn't take the most realistic route even though the plot is already unrealistic. Makes a whole lot of sense doesn't it? If you were a caveman, frozen for hundreds of years, and you thawed and came back to life, wouldn't you want to explore the world at it's fullest instead of being lead around a high school by two bumbling teenagers? I almost feel bad for the guy. He has to live through High School after being frozen for several hundred years. Talk about bad century after bad century.The plot: Two high school outcasts named Dave and Stoney Astin and Shore from Encino, California are attempting to construct a pool in Dave's backyard when they come across a caveman frozen in a block of ice. They leave him in the garage with the heat cranked up to thaw him out. The caveman, now named Linkavich "Link" Chomofsky Fraser now interacts with the world around him as Dave and Stoney take him to school.Dave's dreamgirl Robyn Sweeny Ward is wooed by Link and starts to like him. Not part of the plan. Dave wanted to ask Robyn to prom, but what stands in his way is a heartless jock named Matt played by DeLuise, who utters one of "the greatest movie insults of all time" according to a Youtube video .The film relies on a lot of nineties comedy clichés and doesn't really attempt to be fresh in anyway, but like I said before, I'm a sucker for these eighties and nineties buddy films. Richard Masur, Mr. Anderson from one of my favorite comedies License to Drive, plays a the father of Dave in this film acting pretty much like he did in that movie. Masur has a good father figure approach to him and is great like he was in License to Drive.Les Mayfield directed Encino Man and this film seems like the only thing in his filmography that I would vouch for. I saw The Man and didn't feel that was good enough. Other titles like Blue Streak, Codename: The Cleaner, and Flubber don't really interest me. But it seems pretty much all of Mayfield's filmography is filled with duds.Encino Man almost seems like a Corey Haim and Corey Feldman film that they couldn't do because they got too old. One of the reasons I like it and the fact that the characters are like my friend and I when we get into a sticky situation. It's movies like this they sort of make me wish I was a nineties kid.Starring: Sean Astin, Pauly Shore, Brendan Fraser, Megan Ward, Michael DeLuise, and Richard Masur. Directed by: Les Mayfield.