This family comedy may rewrite the history books, usually a red-card offence, but in this instance we're going to turn a blind eye.
That's because Early Man is charming, cheerful and a lot of fun. It's a classic underdog sports film that doesn't try to invent the wheel. Instead, it shows how prehistoric man invented football (or soccer, if you prefer) more or less by accident.
It then leaps forwards through time to arrive at the uneasy transition period between the Stone and Bronze ages.
Here we're introduced to our heroes, a ragtag tribe of cavemen who are about to have their happy-go-lucky lives disrupted by a villainous lord with a lust for copper and a love of the beautiful game.
Moving at pace, we quickly find our motley heroes very literally in the game of their lives against Lord Nooth's all-star footy players. Football may be a game of two halves but you don't have to be an expert to pick the outcome of the match.
