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Summary: Good movie, but lacks insight.
Review: The movie is trying to make a comedy out of girl's pregnancy by exploiting all the old tricks, remaining superficial and extorting cheap laughs all the way to the end. One might derive a great enjoyment out of it, especially if you are drunk and irish, otherwise it is just a silly little story which will comfort you to bed on a lonely night.
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Summary: One of the BEST-kept secrets on video....
Review: The Snapper is one of the freshest comedies I've ever seen. Colm Meany had me in tears with his authentically subtle brand of Irish humor. This movie teeters between warm-and-fuzzy and disturbingly dysfunctional without completely falling into either category. A must-see for anyone who finds humor in the offbeat.I rented this movie countless times until the purchase price finally dropped below $100. Now I am a proud owner. Not recommended for those who prefer a typical Hollywood punchline-in-a-can flick.
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Summary: family life in the family way
Review: The teenaged daughter of this film, set in Ireland, is pregnant and won't reveal who the father is to either her friends or family. The fetus, dubbed "the snapper", is a source of mystery and gossip to their small town. This movie is funny and sad, like regular family life, and doesn't strive to teach any morals about being unwed and oregnant, nor about anything else (also much like most families' lives). It just IS. That's good enough for me - this movie is great!
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Summary: A rare combination of poignant drama and heartwarming comedy
Review: This film is among my Movie Top 10 of all time, and shall not slide from it, ever. The storyline is not much happier than, say, that of The Scarlet Letter... but still, what a wonderful outcome! Colm Meaney is absolutely ingenious as the grumpy but loving father. Tina Kellegher exhibits a brilliant performance as the "star-crossed" young mother-to-be, and all the other actors draw up wonderfully lively characters. In spite of a little bit abrupt ending, the film offers a hilarious picture of the Dublin family and suburb life. It's so human, so charming... An absolute hit in Hungary as well! You've just got to see it!
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Summary: absolutely brilliant!
Review: This is one of the funniest films I've ever seen! Tina Kellegher is brilliant as the knocked up daughter, and Colm Meaney's performance is top notch as always. Anyways this film definitely does justice to Roddy Doyle's wonderful book.
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Summary: WAY overrated & hugely disappointing
Review: We bought this movie after reading all the glowing reviews, and wonder now if the reviewers were actually referring to the same movie! We found "The Snapper" a major disappointment, and actually threw it away after watching it once. We'd never want to sit through it again, nor would we recommend it to anyone, so we just pitched it. It took us two sittings just to get through the movie at all -- we all fell asleep about halfway through the first time. Yes, it was heartwarming that the family stuck together and celebrated this new little life, but so what? None of the characters made us care about them particularly, as they showed little depth. The girl's father was implausibly supportive, her mother was strange, the baby's father was totally disgusting, and the girl was just plain silly and stupid. From now on, we'll go back to renting before buying. This was a total waste of time and money.
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Summary: Comic central performance makes it watchable.
Review: When 'The Snapper' first came out, it was seen by some as fresh, funny, even realistic. This was possibly because it was set in a working-class housing estate, and had a 'modern' subject matter (a young woman gets pregnant after a drunken car-park encounter, to the confusion of her family and jeering of her neighbours) and fruitiness of language that was a far cry from the misty Oirish paddy-whackery that usually passes for representations of Ireland in cinema. But although the film was made less than a decade ago, it already seems like a museum piece. Not only have superficial things changed - such as the colours of buses - but the whole spirit of Dublin has been transformed in the intervening decade: the tensely multi-cultural, mobile-phone-deafening, economically complacent, computer-shiny culture created by the so-called Celtic Tiger was on the brink of exploding, and this film didn't see it coming. A film can't be blamed for not forseeing the future - although the film's deliberate evasion of politics and social analysis is indicative of a film pocked with black spots. But even then, the film's 'realism' was always skin deep. The picture of Northside Dublin is very soft - there are no drug-dealers, gangsters, paramilitaries, corrupt politicians and gardai, burglars, car-thieves or muggers here; any violence is cosy, well-intentioned and safely attributable to the booze. Although the various types in the film are broadly recognisable, their interaction and contrived plot functions (e.g. as Greek choruses) make them seem more like bawdier versions of the communities portrayed in Ealing films or 'Only Fools And Horses'. It's as if the old lovable rural stereotypes have been simply transposed to the city. What is especially disappointing is Stephen Frears' unimaginative direction. His best films (especially 'My Beautiful Laundrette') have not only been politically astute, but have found their creative energy in the very tensions between realism and melodrama and fantasy this material seems to offer, but with the exception of a sinister Expressionist sequence in the pub, when the dad's mates in diabolically-lit close-ups mock-acqueiesce to his pretence over his daughter's sexuality, everything is flatly composed and perfunctorily staged. He's not helped by the predictable plot, although the dialogue has a quaintly raucous energy that keeps you going. What makes 'The Snapper' a treasure is Colm Meaney's fabulous, broad comic performance as Sharon's builder father, short-tempered but affectionate, aggressive but funny, a New Man in old dad's clothing, with such a huge love for his daughter, that her affair with a middle-aged man might be some weird kind of displacement.
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