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Summary: I thought it was pretty funny!
Review: I am one of the few people to actually love Run Ronnie Run. I am not a diehard Mr Show fan. In fact I only got into it Mr Show once it came out on DVD and I checkd it out at a friend's. But they had this really awesome character, Ronnie Dobbs, who always cracked me up with his white-trash 80s rocker attitude and quips. He was my second favorite part of the show, coming in secondly only to Three Times One Minus One - but we'll get to that later.Anyway, Run Ronnie Run is a funny story about Ronnie Dobbs, a white trash rocker who stumbles his way into his own reality show (a spoof of Cops) thanks to his hilarious run-in's with the law. The show takes him to Hollywood, where love and friendship and plenty other obstacles ruin Ronnie's all-day Hollywood fun. Basically, if you like slapstick comedy, that doesn't have to have the best script, acting, directing, or budget...Then this is your movie. Any Mr Show fan definitely needs to buy this, and generally if you like goofy, offbeat comedy you will love this too.
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Summary: For Fans of MR. SHOW Only?
Review: Having already established myself as a fan of HBO's subversive comedy sketch MR. SHOW WITH BOB & DAVID, I have to admit that I found much of RUN RONNIE RUN -- the expansion of a sketch idea previously worked out on MR. SHOW -- absolutely hysterical. Granted, RONNIE isn't for everyone. In fact, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't know who David Cross or Bob Oedenkirk are. I wouldn't recommend it to the casual viewer of DVD comedies. I wouldn't even recommend it to any member of my own family. But, I'd certainly enjoy the skit-style entertainment with a gaggle of my closest friends.
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Summary: diamond-studded stool
Review: This is a terrible movie with a few moments that are completely hilarious. I haven't laughed as hard at certain parts in this movie since Mr. Show, and probably never before that. And it's worth watching for those moments. It has an abundance of disappointing sophomoric jokes, but then they always rally after with a great Mr. Show-esque gag. It's perfect for today's marketed movie crowd, the teen and 20 somethings who sit through comedies like this all the time. The difference is, the other crap they sit through has no diamonds in it.
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Summary: How can such a bad movie have such good laughs?
Review: It seems pretty obvious that this movie was butchered in editing. I have read all of the reports that said it was but its hard to miss. There's no flow and even though the movie is supposed to be full of nonsequiturs the plot elements make no sense. That being said, it doesn't induce any groans like many bad comedies. Also, it has some of the funniest, laugh out loud, I can't believe they said/did that scenes I have ever seen. The opening cartoon, the Jack Black/Mary Poppins scene (I won't ruin it because the shock is half the humor), the fake R&B video, the "out takes" at the end-all priceless. I am a big Mr. Show fan and was waiting for this movie for a while. I think someone who had never seen the Ronnie Dobbs sketch might appreciate the movie more than I did. The good jokes in the movie were all copied line for line from the sketch. They even took clips from the sketch. That all being said it was still one of the better comedies I've seen in a while.
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Summary: Reality Bites
Review: The long-awaited Mr. Show movie, brought to you by those two funny monkeys, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Despite huge cuts and delays (this was supposed to be theatrically released like three years ago, but everybody associated with it balked come distribution time), and the modest panning of it by Bob and David themselves, I'm happy to say Run Ronnie Run is pretty good. Not great, but how many comedies based on sketch show characters really soar? This one is about Ronnie Dobbs (played by Cross), a white trash bumpkin who repeatedly finds himself being arrested on a popular reality television show which in deference to Michael Moore, shall remain unamed (`Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do...'). This gets the attention of an effeminate British Tv producer (played by Odenkirk) who has the brainy idea to create a reality show based solely around Ronnie getting arrested. The show is a hit, and Ronnie must deal with that cursed, cursed demon called mega-popularity and wealth. Ronnie's character is toned down a little from the Tv series, showing a genuine love for his down-home wife (three times divorced) and basically setting the plot, which is `get back to basics and regain lost love.' Also, much of Ronnie's gags we've already seen on the show (just about all of them actually, except for a laugh-out loud scene where a drunken Ronnie, `resplendent' in a Sammy Hagar t-shirt, drives a hijacked school bus through a high school dance's giant tiki head and then tips it over on the football field, pinning his buddy underneath). Bob merges two of his characters from the show (the psychotic British infomercial host and the effete Tv producer) But that's all incidental. The new gags here are hilarious. Particular standouts are:
-The piece of glass from the exploding food processor flying into the chick's chest being looped on the editing machine (it sounds sick, but really, you gotta see it)
- The Three Times One Minus One video: 3x1-1 are Bob and David's brilliant R+B alter-egoes, who do a sickeningly funny send up of the played out `I wanna sex u up' set. The lyrics are amazing...
- Jack Black's chimney sweep musical number on the London rooftops
-The guy sitting in the bathtub during the first Ronnie chase...oh man.
- The fat kid martial arts sequence (particularly for the song being played in the background)
- Mandy Patinkin singing the Ronnie Dobbs theme wearing nothing but a straw hat (and with the same starry eyed passion as if it were Somewhere Over The Rainbow). This isn't the best structured film you've ever seen, and it doesn't hit every time. If your idea of a good comedy is Airplane or Hexed, you'll love this. Its a pretty good sendup of the garbage being pumped into our living rooms by reality-programming-happy Tv suits every night, with enough poop jokes to keep the kids laughing. There's also a slew of cameos; Jeff Goldstein (I mean Goldbloom), Ben Stiller, R. Lee Ermey (Sir! Yes sir!), Dave Foley, Scott McCullough, Andy Richter, as well as most of the original Mr. Show cast, all very funny. As a matter of fact, I don't see why Bob and David aren't at least marginally proud of this. Its not the masterpiece Mr. Show was, but its not a total loss. Maybe all this false humility is just to catch us Mr. Show fans with our pants down...make us lower our guard and be more forgiving of their first film foray. It'd be just like those creeps... Well anyway, when its funny, its very funny indeed.
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Summary: Y'all got fake poo?
Review: As a voracious Mr. Show fan, I had expected that Bob & David's feature film debut (as a team) would be as clever and as funny as Mr. Show, the vehicle that propelled them to cult favorite status. However, operating under a studio that re-edited and reworked their movie, Bob & David lost their creative control over their project. The result is a movie not worthy of the Mr. Show moniker. Significantly dumbed-down, and played out like a one-note joke, Run Ronnie Run is less like the fresh inventiveness of Mr. Show, and more like one of those tired SNL movies which features a once-brilliant character just going through the motions. In the end, it's easy to see why Bob & David wanted to discard this film, a mangled version of their concept. Shame on New Line Cinema for tainting the genius of Bob & David, and then shame on them for refusing to issue this film a theatrical release, only to offer the film on DVD for a quick buck. Still, for Bob & David DVD completists, this is a must-have companion to Mr. Show.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This movie is hilarious; a classic up there with Strange Brew, The Jerk and Fast Times. Not that it is perfect, but what trashy comedy is? For my money, even better than Old School. I don't know what movie Bob and Dave were trying to make, but I love Ronnie Run just as it is. I didn't get to watch Mr Show, so I guess I am not biased in that way. I hope these two keep making movies. See this movie.
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Summary: Like Mr. Show, only not funny
Review: It's sad to say it, but this movie is terrible. I'm not going to try to make excuses for saying it's good ("well, Bob and Dave wanted to make a different movie...", etc.), and I'm not such a Mr. Show fanboy that I can't admit that this movie is terrible. Unlike most of the reviewers, I'll say that if you LOVE (or just like) Mr. Show, then STAY AWAY from this turd. What you'll get is the same jokes from the show with all of what made them funny removed. For example: what made Ronnie funny was that he was an ignorant redneck a**hole--why would we want to see him as a sympathetic character? The whole reason Three Times One Minus One was funny was the fact that David just sang "woo-woo" and Bob just said "damn" over and over--why would we want to hear an actual song with juvenile lyrics? The list goes on and on, and very little about this movie is funny or original. The celebrity cameos are mostly embarrassing and are the film equivalent of name-dropping. Bob and Dave, you guys are better than this...
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Summary: Not the movie they wanted to make
Review: For those fans of Mr. Show, beware. This movie is not endorsed by Bob and David, and the choice to actually release it was not theirs. They did make the movie, but they were not happy with it when the finished. There was an earlier cut of the movie (probably including some of the deleted scenes on the DVD) that Bob and David were actually willing to release, but this is not it. That being said, the movie is still good (Watch out for a 'dirty' cameo by none other than Jack Black himself, I fell out of my chair laughing). It kind of breaks down in the end, when the story actually has to take precedence over the sketch style comedy. My only other complaint is that too much of the movie was already done better in the show! Bob's speach about letters Ronnie has recieved, and Ronnie Dobbs the musical were so much funnier when they were sketches on Mr. Show than they are in the movie. And they completely throw out Entitilitis. "The killer what took me is entitilitis. No one knows what entitilitis is, or where entitilitis comes from, but entitilitis kills." Comedy gold. Reasons to see this movie: -Good movie
-TONS of cameos:
-THE R. Lee Emory
-Jack Black
-Dave Foley
-Andy Richter
-Jeff Goldblum
-Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park
-MUCH more
-The soundtrack, which features many of the bands created over the years for Mr. Show, including Tool's alter egos.
-Bob and David. These guys rock. They rock SO hard.
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Summary: I love Mr. Show, but I think I had too high expectations.
Review: I love...love Mr. Show. I subscribed to HBO just for the show when it was still on. I used to laugh so bloody hard to the show. The movie wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either, like I had been expecting. The deleted scenes were actually some of the funniest in the movie...too bad they didn't keep them in. If you are a huge fan of Mr. Show, then buy this movie, although I want to warn you ahead of time...it isn't as good as the show. Too choppy. Sorry Bob and David, I have to give you 3 stars...but I give you 5 on your show. Rent the movie if you can before you buy it, then figure it out.
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