Brand new factory sealed dvd has a cut-out through the upc code on the back. This was done at the factory and usually indicates a version that is Out Of Print (OOP) and will no longer be manufactured, which it is. More than anything, the movie recalls the overblown Hollywood biblical epics of the 1950s. The story is set in the late Stone Age. The tale concerns a mountain tribe called the Yagahl and centers on three of its members: the handsome young hunter, D'Leh (Steven Strait); his beautiful childhood sweetheart, Evolet (Camilla Belle); and his wise mentor, Tic'Tic (Cliff Curtis). One day the Yagahl are attacked in their peaceful village by a gang of marauding horseman, who carry off several Yagahlis as slaves--among them, of course, the lovely Evolet. D'Leh, Tic'Tic, and other male survivors of this onslaught give chase through mountains, jungles, and deserts and along the way they have hair-raising encounters with saber-toothed tigers, giant woolly mammoths, and ferocious, proto-ostrich "terror birds." (The birds are actually pretty scary). Finally, D'Leh and company, together with some other tribal guys they've recruited along the way, arrive at the evil pyramid city, which is ruled by a towering, heavily veiled god-king called the Almighty (an initially intriguing figure who turns out to be...). Throughout all of this a voice-over (by Paleolithic Egyptian actor Omar Sharif) has been droning on about "ze Legend of ze Child with Blue Eyes," a reference to Evolet's contact lenses. I did find the theory of the building of the pyramids as shown to be a clever one.