LogFAQs > #906770801

Karo: This was made to be sort of a series finale to the long running animated sitcom about a family of neanderthals living in a surprisingly civilized city. As such, it has pretty much the amount of creative bankruptcy that you would expect.
So the story is Fred ends up having to fill in for a secret agent that conveniently looks just like him, and of course he cannot tell his friends or family anything so all sorts of misunderstandings and awkward moments ensue as he ends up involved in spy intrigue across the caveman world.
There is nothing markedly offensive about it, but it just results in turning into a dull, (poorly) animated James Bond movie, only with Bond as an overweight mentally disabled family man with no special abilities.
Hanna-Barbara may have wanted to squeeze very last bit of money out of their most popular characters, but when it came to making this movie they probably should have Yabba-Dabba-Didn't.

Inviso: This one started out with some actual potential. Not a LOT of potential, because it was still following a very 1960s slapstick style, but the plot at least SEEMED reasonable. Secret agent looks like Fred, gets incapacitated, Fred needs to pretend to be the secret agent. Fine, thats fun enough. Unfortunately, in order to drag the movie to a 90-minute runtime, you have a ton of padding. There are TWO Pebbles/Bam Bam songs in this movie. And theyre 1960s cartoon songs, so they suck. And ultimately, by the time the plot progresses to the end of the movie, everything becomes completely convoluted and the fun of a schlub having to fake secret agenthood is lost. Its just a mess.

Charon: Cheesy, campy, James Bond-inspired animated film kinda... is ok? The females here certainly show what era they were from is one major criticism I can think of. I will say I was impressed with the villain reveal however, as I really did not see that coming. That said, for a man so talented he sure proved to be inept was the twist was revealed. Fred and Barney were enjoyable enough; except when they were singing. The musical content here was all over the place. I enjoyed the clearly Bond themed song or two, but Fred and Barney had no business having that song. The biggest offense was Pebbles' song though; totally out of place and nonsensical. Still, it's not that bad for what it is.

Johnbobb: Cant help but feel this suffers just a little bit due to the time period (and spy parodies being done to death now) but the Flintstones has always maintained a certain goofy charm to it. Probably the best of the Hanna Barbera movies.

Genny: Having regrettably not taken part in the Bond project, I still appreciated the espionage antics in The Man Called Flintstone... well as much as one can really appreciate a film where one doesn't care for any of the main characters. I'll put it this way, I'd rather watch this than The Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas or Hit Rock Bottom, but I am not a fan of The Flintstones. That said, this one was at least fairly creative for a family film.
I saw Tanya's double cross coming from eight miles away, but I was somewhat surprised that Triple X (no relation to Vin Diesel) was in fact the Green Goose all along, even though (and charon can attest to this) I questioned very early on in the movie why Chief Boulder would send Fred in as Rock Slag's double when he already had a legitimate master of disguise already in his employ that could've impersonated him. Beyond that one "twist" the obvious rock puns are abundant, the typical hijinks ensue, and the situational comedy that is a staple of the series is there. My favorite scene is when the two families are flying to France and Barney and Betty are in last class.
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all going according to the plan of BKSheikah this time...