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Anyway, it doesn't make you laugh, it's just a small nonsense or, if you want, a filming exercise for the masterpieces that were to follow. Film made 107 years ago!

As many films as Charlie Chaplin made, some of them were bound to be below his usual standard. "His Prehistoric Past" is a short comedy that is not very funny, nor does it contain the touches of humanity that Chaplin's best films have.

The idea here is that Charlie joins a caveman tribe. The humor is supposed to come from the cavemen's clubs, the caveman king having a harem, and so forth, but none of it is very entertaining.

Anything that Chaplin did probably holds some interest to his fans, but almost any of his other films is much better than this one.

His Prehistoric Past was one of Chaplin's earliest movies and easily one of his least funny. It is without the social messages that his later films (even the short silent-films) contained, and is also without any truly funny scenes. Chaplin neither directed nor produced this movie, and it is doubtful that even he found it at any point funny.

Charlie Chaplin left to his own creative devices was a genius - plain and simple. HPH is not his project, however, and consequently is a very poor example of a Chaplin flick.

Do yourself a favor, rent a different Chaplin film (almost any will make your sides hurt from laughing and brain giddy from greater social awareness), but don't waste your time or money on His Prehistoric Past.

Some of Chaplin's final movies for The Keystone got quite good - there was a coherent narrative, there was less unnecessary slapstick violence and more subtle jokes and even sweetness. 'His Prehistoric Past' is kind of a letdown. The movie was quite interesting because of the different set-up but not very memorable in any other way.

Charles Chaplin made 35 short movies (34 are available today, 'Her Friend the Bandit' is still lost) and one feature film for The Keystone Studios. What a prolific start! It is clear that the quality of The Keystone comedies suffered thanks to the quantity. Chaplin was just learning the craft of filmmaking and he didn't have much creative freedom. The Keystone Studios were concentrating more on rough and farcical slapstick, which quite didn't suit Chaplin. This is clear with his later movies that became more focused on the story than just physical gags.

'His Prehistoric Past' along with other films Chaplin made for the Keystone, is still mostly entertaining. Although most of the Keystone movies are not very memorable or special, they are worth checking out just for the curiosity to see the first steps of the great comedian.

This is an early Chaplin short. Almost all of his earliest films from 1914-1915 were plot less and pretty incoherent. However, considering the generally poor quality of films of the time, they were adored by the public. It was only a few years later that Chaplin's films began to be great works of art--with real scripts, higher production values and some coherence.

This film is one of Chaplin's earliest. And, considering how early it was made, it's surprising how much plot there actually is. Charlie is a caveman in a land where there are 1000 women for every man. He defeats the leader of the tribe and becomes king. Later, when the old king returns and bonks Charlie on the head, he awakens in the present as a cop is hitting him over the head with a club. Apparently it was all a silly dream.

The film had a few cute moments, but only a few. Not a terrible film when compared to the fare of the day, but pretty skipable despite having a VERY unusual plot.