Poised to overtake Semi-Pro as the #1 comedy in America this weekend, 10,000 B.C., Roland Emmerich's hilariously bombastic homage to the dawn of CGI-man, officially opens today. Along the way, it has inspired film critics to some of their best movie-panning in recent memory, with the NY Times's A.O. Scott having dubbed this tale of a "tribe of snuffleupagus hunters" a "sublimely dunderheaded excursion into human prehistory." Here's a sampling of some of the caveman-themed headlines that contributed to its 9% Tomato-Meter score:

· '10000' reasons to avoid film [Baltimore Sun]
· '10,000 B.C.': Mammoth disappointment [Toronto Sun]
· Stone Age story doesn't rock [Columbus Dispatch]
· Even a caveman would be insulted [Minn Star Tribune]

· The mind-numbing '10,000 BC' is just one big prehistoric bore [CP]
· '10,000 B.C.' primitive in all the wrong ways [Times-Picayune]
· Don't go back to '10,000 B.C' [SF Examiner]
· Wooly Bully: '10,000 B.C.' is not a film for the ages [Detroit News]
· '10,000 B.C.' Is Artistically Extinct [ohmynews.com]

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