Reviews

This movie gets no respect even from it's own writers and actors! That's OK. I really like this movie. And listen, I watch movies that movie snobs/nerds would really go for: from Big Lebowski to Cool Hand Luke, back around to Chinatown, Vertigo or Superman 2. I have Netflix, people! NETFLIX!

I own the DVD and have actually watched it over and over. It's very short. It's good for parties. It's super silly in a way that you would expect from Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Dave Atell and David Cross. It's just some weird, stupid take on a Blaxploitation movie. I'll admit: it MAY not be your thing, and that's AOK. But I really like this movie.

I really liked this movie. It's not National Treasure or some Nick Cage summer blockbuster. I know Nicholas Cage can polarize people, but this movie definitely works for both kinds of people. It's also great for fans of crazy. At times I wasn't sure if he was acting or not. If you like The Soup with Joel McHale, this show could fill an episode with weird clips, for sure.

The title says a lot, he's a bad cop. He does drugs, he's somewhat depraved. OK, he's a lot depraved, poor scruples. He would not pass the Billy Madison "Business Ethics" test, but he is somehow still KIND OF a good guy, trying to help people.

It's a nutty movie. It's got some iguanas and a soul that dances, so enjoy it for that at least.

Either you like it or you don't. I think this movie is hilarious. I also think it's stupid. It's profane, juvenile and idiotic the whole way through. It's not just stupid people in a normal world - like Adam Sandler going back to high school. There's a twinge of stupid in everything. It's got an annoying acapella family, parents who let their 40-year-old sons live in the house and a ridiculous helicopter-leasing brother. So yeah, even their world is a caricature... really, the "Catalina Wine Mixer"? There almost is no "straight man" in the comedy.

I COULD find criticisms, "Will Ferrell and John C. Reily's characters seemed too smart at times..." but to find fault in things like that is to completely miss the point.

This movie cracks me up, out loud, almost the whole way through. Do not watch it with your kids or with your mom.

Let me explain that. Elvis' Graceland mansion is a clear example of white trash striking it rich. Grindhouse is 70s B-Movie Fanboys strike it rich and get to do all the "over the top" effects they've always wanted. OK, and before we go on, if I never hear "cheezy" "B-Movie" "over the top" or "gratutious" again, I might be happy. These words are appropriate here but they're as overdone as the greaser guys hanging out at rockabilly clubs. It's also strange to do a tribute to that "genre" since the words used to describe super gory, "over the top" Grindhouse type movies have long been excuses for bad writing or a half-assed idea. Just add more explosions! Kind of like a comic who adds f-bombs and n-words.

The movies themselves are fun; Planet Terror being the better of the two. Death Proof is just a lot of talking with some car chases. It feels like what a Quentin Tarantino fan would make in film school. Unlike Pulp Fiction, which threw out tasty nuggets of trivia and strange conversation, Death Proof is just people taking a long time to say something.

No real new ideas here or super-clever humor. Just a rehashing of old movies with a wink so you know they're in on the joke too...which ironically makes these movies sincere tributes. If you are a film school nerd or are like Quentin Tarantino and sat in your basement pleasing yourself to crappy movies in the 70s OR you missed all of that but really like explosions and naked chicks and car chases, hey, this movie is for you. It's gaudy. It's a rehash but unique to current movies, which makes the movie ironic at it's core. And Rose McGowan has a gun for a leg, so that's neat. It's not bad.

You would think, with the voice talent in this movie, that it would be at least a little funny. 90% of this cast has made me laugh out loud at least once. Maybe, MAYBE it's funnier if you're gay but I like to think that gay people have better sense of humor than this. It's full of silly puns, old messages and tired stereotype jokes. South Park has done more credit to people who are homosexual.

I have considered that if someone has a different sexual orientation, maybe they also have a different comic orientation but I don't think this is a case of humor being different, as if written in a language other than my "straight" tongue. I get the jokes, Michael Jackson looks like an old woman, Judy Garland is Queen of the Gays and Cher is just an endless source of fabulous humor. How many Evil Christian Preacher characters have we seen before? I've just heard it all before and it was funnier and better said the first time. I mean, look at the movie "But I'm a Cheerleader" about a girl who goes off to a straight reprogramming camp. Same theme but funny!

Most of the blame for being mislead should fall on the poster "key art" designers and trailer editors. It's marketed as a "Grown Up Fairy Tale" but it's mostly a war movie - OK POST-war movie about fascists, guerrillas, the horrors of war and such.

It's not so much a mystical fantasy tale. I'd say that takes up about 12 minutes of the whole movie, which is really unsatisfying if that's what you've come to see.

For what it is though, it's a decent movie. Over the top violent but that seems to be the whole point of a girl trying to escape it all.

There were a couple "WHY DID (or DIDN'T) YOU DO THAT!?" moments while watching. Those are frustrating to me but I think most people can get past them as I came up with a couple justifications.

So, don't go looking for a fantastical, magical tale. Be ready for war and sadness.

Often when I see a horror movie I wonder, "Who molested the writer/director?" I don't ask because of specific scenes, though a few could make the case. I ask because the genre in general is depraved and nasty. Even if the good guys win, you figure they'll be traumatized for life. On the other hand, going through hell and surviving would be very empowering. Maybe I'm a pessimist.

That said, the behavior of the hill people was very believable. The movie was certainly scary but for me it was more depressing and lonely. I mean, it's bad enough to go on a family trip in the middle of the desert but to be attacked by inbred nuclear test rejects is even worse!

I'm still not sure why the bad guys have to be so elaborately malicious (other than entertainment value) if they're only trying to survive but whatever.

So, as far as the genre goes, not horrible but not my thing.

I really enjoyed this short. It's odd and funny in the way that The Offfice or Arrested Development are. The characters are diverse and interesting. You've got the naive owner's daughter who runs the company despite only having experience as a grade-school teacher. A mousy receptionist who can't get the right birthday. Oh, and I really like the remodeling job they do in the break room. Since it was written as a pilot television show, I'd like to see more episodes. There are also valuable lessons. For example, I learned from this that American Indians are prone to drinking and that black people enjoy "Nehi" and other fruit flavored sodas. You won't learn that in school! I think this even invents a new stereotype involving homosexual men and cake.

I don't know if this has ever been on Mystery Science Theater 3000 but it should. Actually, it might be too stupid. This is one of the worst movies in history, which might be a good reason to go see it. Watch it alone and it's depressing and a waste of time. Watch it with FRIENDS and it's funny. I'm sure there's a drinking game in this movie somewhere. I know everyone has said this, but why does a movie called "Troll" feature goblins? The actors are so bad it's funny. You don't feel empathy for any character because they're so idiotic and unbelievable. I love the way problems are solved in this movie too...like the way the kid gets his family to not eat the evil goblin food.

You just have to see it to believe it.

Sure, it's debatable but this is one of the best movies I've ever seen. Not the best "sports" movie or the best "kids" movie. The best movie, movie.

It was well-written, funny and very, very honest. You will never again see a kids movie with this kind of language, rebellion, smoking, alcohol and, like I said, raw honesty. In general, there are no good guys or bad guys, there's no cartoonish "evil" team in black jerseys.

The kids act like kids. Like the one trying to get attention while telling his long story to an uninterested Walter Mathau, the "Booger Eating Spaz" or the general potty mouth behavior. They're not super-clean Disney movie kids.

It's the movie that inspired a thousand "team of misfits" movies. Yet it's nothing like any of them and better than all of them.

Thi is one of the best sports movies I've ever seen. It had the honesty of "Slapshot" and the heart of "Rocky". It wasn't just a team-trying-to-win-the-big-game movie. The characters were interesting without being melodramatic (no sinister villains vs. sparkling good-guys). You'll learn a lot about how seriously they take high school football in Texas. Their stadium really seats 19,000! Apparently they left out the fact that this high school team took a chartered jet to two away games in 1988. It doesn't ridicule or judge, it just shows a variety of points of view, from the pure fun of the game to absurdity of hero-worship. You get a good balanced message of enjoying sports but not letting them rule your life.

Also, Billy Bob Thornton and Tim McGraw are great.

This is hardly the mind-blowing head-trip it's set up to be. Anyone who's ever stayed up late talking with friends about the deep wonders of existence, possibility and the hugeness of the universe, will get very little news out of this. Large concepts are vaguely explained by un- credited "experts" (their credentials are given in the end credits). Usually these "insights" are explained as too crazy to fully understand or given unexplained connections to "quantum physics". It goes like this, one of the films experts says something apparently deep and intriguing. You nod along because you've thought of things like this before. Then right when you're ready for a revelation or profound thought, you get "and we're discovering all of these things as a result of (SCIENTIFIC WORD)"...aaand the scene is over never to be revisited again.

Other parts of the movie should be called "What the @#$*% are you talking about?" Like the artist who apparently labeled jars of water and directed thoughts at them, then photographed the ice crystals in a microscope and discovered that the crystals shape changed based on what thoughts were aimed at them. It's confusing though, that the movie and website both said he used polluted water for bad thoughts and clean spring water for good ones. Regardless of the last sentence, this has a real ambiguous "Face on Mars" quality. I love the idea that our attitudes could change the world around us PHYSICALLY but random photos of a tiny sample of water "exposed to bad thoughts and feelings" is not scientific. Just like I can find a rocket ship in a cloud formation if I look hard enough.

There's a lot of truth here but also a lot of vague speculation. The fact that people's attitudes affect their perception of the world and ultimately what happens to them is definitely true. On the other hand, the story of ancient peoples who could not see approaching sailing ships because they had no frame of reference for what a ship was, is very questionable. First of all, the movie said this is a "theory" but goes on to illustrate it visually as if it's really true.

I wanted to like it, I really did. In fact, I think a lot of the movie was very true and useful but it didn't go far enough. It only skimmed over the really interesting stuff and at other times just left me bored.

This looks like a Jackie Chan movie at first and that's a fair assumption. The trailers feature a lot of kicking and I counted four choreographed Jackie Chan fight scenes in the film. As usual, these are fun to watch but the movie has more than that.

Now, I like the old adventure story. The journey was epic but the book could be read in an evening or two. So, you've got this globe sweeping voyage taking place in only about 100 pages or in this case 100 minutes. Also, the book is in big fat print, so If even you're lazy I recommend reading it.

The turn-of-the-century inventions are fun to look at too and the characters are fun. Steve Coogan is really cool. I'm not British so I'm not familiar with his humor but I'd like to become acquainted with it, maybe take it out to lunch. His Phileas Fogg character is inspired and ambitious while still being a standoffish loner.

There's a sarcastic edge to him that often comes naturally to people who are a little smarter than everyone else. It's subtle.

He's a very human character I enjoyed having him around on screen.

I was happily surprised by some of the humor in the movie. Not because it was dirty but because it came from way out in left field; a sea captain who lost his nipples in a confrontation with a shark, for example. The director did "The Waterboy" and "The Wedding Singer" so I shouldn't be TOO surprised. Oh, and just wait to hear Schwarzenegger's hilarious self-parodying line. You've Yeah, I liked it. It's inspirational in that Disney "Mighty Ducks" way.

It's pretty family friendly but whatever. It was a lot better than I might have thought seeing only the billboards.

This movie was long. Too long for me.

I did like the costumes and sets though. Those top hats with the blue sashes looked awesome. Great sets and a disturbing story made Old Tymey New York a beautiful 19th century nightmare.

What people did to each other back then was pretty sick. I'm sure we've got some nasty stuff now too but I never imagined it on such a large scale. Scorcese is always the guy to dredge up the most disgusting human behavior. While I appreciate seeing the dark side I never knew about, I wondered if he can direct anything NOT about organized crime.

The story, to me, really wandered. I wasn't sure what Leonardo was trying to do and I don't think he was either. We've all felt that way about ourselves but when it's time for the movie to build to a climax, I don't think it should seem so spontaneous and vague. The story made it tough to love or hate any of the characters. Very lukewarm.

Daniel Day Lewis did a great job playing a murderous jerkwad.

This was a great looking movie. But the story was long and vague.

The humor of "This is Spinal Tap" has a special time-release formula. I didn't find myself rolling on the floor laughing the first time I saw this but as the day went on my friends and I couldn't stop recalling the dialogue. This movie is a legend.

"See Spinal Tap" should be written in the dictionary next to satire. Lately satire has come to mean a simple mockery of pop-culture instead of "human vice or folly attacked through irony, derision or wit". Movies like "Scary Movie" claim to be parodies or satire without even trying to be witty. They just imitate something as opposed to commenting on it. True satire takes a bit more work by the writers and will make you laugh much harder.

Spinal Tap gives you the absurdity of the rock and roll world, yet still respects the music. I understood this when I saw a clip of the movie for the first time at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was the scene with amps that go to "11". I couldn't stop thinking about that scene until I finally saw the movie. Every aspect of the music world is lampooned; arrogance, absurdity, backstage crybabies, has-beenism, volume, even the Beatles. This movie is quoted like the Simpsons, which isn't always good but certainly proof of legendary movie. It's dry, deadpan humor and it may take a day to sink in but this movie is hilarious.

Six String Samurai is OK.

It's original with a Ulysses style quest story.

I'm a little tired of the swing-dancing-rockabilly-hipster irony which this movie is full of. Maybe it's because I live across the street from a vintage clothing store and my roommate spotted the actual Red Elvises in the coffee shop next door. I just felt this movie was more into the cool-guy kitsch image and not into making an interesting story. If you get your rocks off on that kind of cool-guy culture then watch this movie, for sure.

As far as being humorous, there is a bit. I wouldn't go so far to call this a comedy but it's definitely light hearted. This is a great movie for those people at film festivals who bust a gut at even the subtlest joke just to show that they get it. The "I get it" laugh, we've all heard it and probably want to punch the folks who do it.

I wasn't really excited about this movie but I'm sure it was better than "Rollerball".

This show shouldn't even be compared to other hidden camera shows. Maybe if Andy Kauffman was in charge of Candid Camera you'd be on to something. The pranks on The Jamie Kennedy Experiment go beyond most shows. When you think they've given you all the skit has to offer they keep piling it on. For example a Hollywood Star's Homes Tour guide decides to take the group into Bob Saget's house. The joke keeps unfolding when they find questionable items throughout the house, then of course the tourists are terrified when Bob shows up.

Jamie Kennedy is a great actor. He doesn't strike me as one of these guys who's just out to see himself on TV (Mike Myers strikes me as one of those guys). Kennedy seems more concerned with the craft of acting. His diverse roles are very convincing and he's awesome at keeping a straight face. He's a totally unselfish hard-working actor, he really seems like he's only out to entertain his audience and is enjoying the product he's putting on TV.

Very professional, well written and very very funny.

This is an above average movie. A lot of the reviews here seem to be emotional knee-jerk responses more than thoughtful comments.It does live up to decent-movie standards but it doesn't accomplish the nearly impossible task of living up to is it's hype. I think this is why there are so many over-negative reviews.

I do think this film was made to indulge a filmmaker who just wants to keep telling his story. It is an interesting one and you can't blame him for trying `capture the magic' of the first three films. Of course, that didn't happen but we did get a good movie out of it.

This film had an exciting story and a lot of pretty pictures. I don't know if all the animation was necessary but it wasn't overly distracting. I gave this movie a 7 because it's good. It's not great but it's definitely ahead of the curve.

Many blast this movie calling it `truly horrible in every aspect' or saying the pod race was to `apease uncultured masses that are hungry for action no matter how absurd'. Considering there are movies out there like `The Fast and the Furious', `Rollerball' and `Collateral Damage' I think calling Star Wars Episode I the worst movie ever is way out of line.

I also think knocking this movie for having `action' is ridiculous. While I do agree that over-the-top, everything-blows-up type movies are silly, this movie IS a space adventure. Things SHOULD go `woosh', `boom' and `zap'. In fact, the special effects are a huge contribution to the legitimacy and appeal of the original movies. Besides, movies tell stories with moving pictures, without action you might as well make a radio play.

As far as this movie having `blatant racism'. with Soul Brother Jar-Jar and the `devious but clumsy mechanations of the evil Asain trade guild'…Get a life.

One potentially valid comment I've heard is `the biggest movie disappointment of my moviegoing life'. With all the Star Wars hype, this movie was bound for disappointment unless it had a cameo from Jesus and included a free Super Bowl ticket.

I liked this movie.

I've never left a movie saying "I sure would like more explosions and punching!" but the action was very appealing in this movie and I actually thought there could be more.

I remember Batman coming out in 1989 and the way it made a superhero fresh, new and exciting. I'm not a comic book fan but I was glad to see Spider-Man getting the same treatment.

With what little I know, this movie did do the comic justice. Now that effects allow more superhuman powers for the actors, Spider-Man's jumping and swinging come off very well done. Think about it, Spider-Man isn't just flying straight ahead. You can't put some guy on a table in front of a blue screen to pull off the dramatic arcing motions of swinging from building to building 20 stories off the ground. The effects here were well done. It was especially impressive that the movie's action often took place in broad daylight with no dark shadows available to hide wires or distract the viewer from mediocre tricks.

The story was clear from the start when Peter Parker said it's about a girl. This is a love story and it doesn't suck like the love story that bogged down Independence Day and other Hollywood "blockbusters". The plot is full of soap opera like twists and triangles (though "soap opera" is not a fair term). Tobey MacGuire is convincing as a superhero because he's convincing as the alter ego, Parker, from the start. Willem Dafoe is a great villain. His hard features and gravely voice are perfect for a comic book bad-guy.

Hey, I liked the action scenes and the overall look of this film. It's a very pretty movie with a cool story!

I found this movie disturbing. It was kind of funny for shock value but overall it's one of those that's depressing to watch.

What did I learn from it? The entertainment industry is full of bad evil things but they paint a pretty picture on the front and present it to us. Aren't many things that way though? I guess I didn't learn that so much as I had it reiterated through over an hour of Muppet-like characters shooting up, shooting down, and doing deviant things.

Well, I'd recommend it but I'm not saying you'll enjoy it. Make sense?

Schooly D busts out the opening theme to 15-minutes of hilarious fast-food products with super-powers. Frylock, a box of fries with laser eyes, is the only "hero" with enough sense to be called a "super hero". Master Shake (a shake) is selfish and immature, Meatwad (a ball of meat) is cute, loveable and seemingly naive but with a weird edge. He speaks in street lingo and likes playing with matches. Carl, their neighbor, never changes out of his white tank top and grey sweat pants. His only concern is getting a hot-rod magazine and keeping the Aqua Teens out of his pool, or from stealing his cable, or melting his aluminum siding.

The episodes include Leprachauns in the park stealing peoples valuables with a rainbow machine, or...wait, here's my rendition of a scene:

Shake has just landed an escape pod (from space) in the street in front of Carl's house, which is damaged from the fire Shake set earlier to mow Carl's lawn (Frylock told him, "You can't use matches to cut the lawn, Shake!"). Carl is carrying a tire-iron and approaches Shake with his thick Jersey dialect. "Shake, buddy!".

"Hey Carl. Why is your house so wavy?"

"Yeah, I was thinkin' we could have a dialogue about that."

"That's a nice tire iron you got there, Carl."

"Yeah, let me shows you the finish on it." Carl gets into the escape pod and beats shake for melting his house and burning his yard.

It's weird, it's hilarious and it's only 15-minutes long on Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" block.

-FreeNachos

I should have known when I first saw this game in 8th Grade that Final Fantasy was going to be a great series for a long time. How could I have know though? This was Final Fantasy II (in Japan it was IV). I guess I figured you could only have one "final" fantasy, and the fact that there was a second was overachieving in the first place.

What game are we on now? Ten? They're all good and this was the first Final Fantasy to catch my attention. The story is as gripping as a video game plot needs to be. The characters are diverse and dynamic. Your party members grow and changes as the story progresses and the writers aren't afraid to kill off some really good ones. There are many interesting weapons, items, spells, caves and enemies. Best of all, the battles are fun and not an annoyance.

The game does show age but the graphics are really pretty and I remember they were exceptionally beautiful and he music was awesome at the time this came out for the Super Nintendo. You can find this one for PlayStation now AND it's coupled with what many call "The greatest Role Playing Game of all time" ChronoTrigger. It's a bargain.

"Off-beat" is a far too mainstream way to describe this show. This show is better summed up as the eccentric cousin of off-beat's odd brother. It's not a kids show and it's strange. The two dimensional cut out figure of "Space Ghost" (one of many lame 70's superhero cartoons) hosts his own talk show and it's like nothing you've ever seen. It's hilarious at it's best. The show premise is simple, yet twisted. The animated Space Ghost, with his arch-enemies running the controls (instead of rotting in prison), interviews actual real-life celebrities like Michael Stipe, Donny Osmond, Moby, Willie Nelson, The Ramones and Busta Rhymes. The interview usually doesn't really take place as chaos ensues as soon as the opening credits finish rolling. The "guest" is usually ignored, harassed, or left to comment from the sidelines.

Non-traditional explains the humor. It's a very random television program, that is best watched and not explained in a sea of text. The awkward pause of one still shot of Space Ghost's annoyed face staring down Zorak (his band leader) after he's made an off-color comment is a hilarious moment. There's more humor when Space Ghost hops into his space ship and zips across the galaxy while listening to smooth jazz. Or when Moltar (director) steps out for a smoke break while a bear runs wild on the set.

This show does whatever it wants. Once in a while, the episodes themselves are jarringly random. One wasn't even animated, it was a black and white film of the character voice actors sitting around a table (one of them shirtless) reading through the script. Another episode, featuring Busta Rhymes, sent the show into "Flip Mode" (a drug induced induced fantasy world similar to a Busta Rhymes video).

I'm so glad the Cartoon Network has started making new episodes for their "Adult Swim" lineup (with a lot of other really good cartoons along this same avenue).

Watch this show and remember "A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer."

-FreeNachos