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Summary: a dated classic
Review: How can any one who saw this film as a kid ever forget it? Many of the scatalogical blackout sketches are no longer as provocative as their original release, but who cares? The film is hysterical. Sure there are low points, the all too long the dealers, the evening news (although of course Brown 25 is classic), but the high points are extaordinary; The Kramp kitchen, Safety sam, Chevy Chases' brilliant 4 leaf clover, the extremely subtle and amazingly funny, Koko the clown show. Best of all though is writer, director, producer Ken Shapiro's manic pas de deux down a busy Manhattan street, while he sings Nat King Cole's Just You Just Me. It is forever etched in my mind. All that and Curtis Mayfield as a bonus. Definitely dated, still, The Groove Tube remains an unrelenting jolt of joy in an era that is certainly in need of it.
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Summary: A raunchy seventies spoof of network television
Review: I can still remember sitting in a movie theater in Las Cruces, New Mexico, watching "The Groove Tube" during the veneral disease PSA and suddenly realizing exactly what I was looking at on the screen (albeit upside down and with jiggly eyes clued on it). Truly one of the great "Oh--My--God!" moments I have experienced in a movie theater. I actually remembered quite a few other bits from this wild lampoon series of skits, from Richard Belzer as the President to Chevy Chase deciding to keep his wife, and from the walking fingers to Brown 25. The only downside is that when I rewatched this tape a quarter of a century later I had apparently remembered all of the good bits and forgotten the rest (I still do the walking fingers bit from time to time to amuse myself--when nobody is looking, of course). "The Groove Tube" has the reputation of being proto-"Saturday Night Live," but it really is closer to the spirit and tenor of "National Lampoon." I do not know if it would really impress anybody seeing it for the first time in the 21st century, but we laughed ... at it way back when.
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Summary: Simply one of the funniest films ever made but not for all.
Review: I completely disagree with most of the reviews I saw. It is not hit and miss comedy with throwaway skits. It's brillant comedy with great social com mentary. It refected the times and is still fresh to this day. FORGET AUSTIN POWERS.No it's not a Zucker brothers films. Shaprio is much much more talented and original than them and most of the "comedy" writers/directors working today.
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Summary: Not Clever, but sick and perfect!
Review: I first ran across this when I was 16, my mother mentioned seeing this in the theaters. I nearly died laughing the first time I saw this...insanity? It is a bit dated, and is clever parody of pop culture of a period most dear to baby boomers, but there are some timeless moments. Safety Sam is best when watching other people's reactions. The Curtis Mayfield song at the beginning was sublime. I love suggesting this film to friends who want to see something different...or obscene. It is one of my favorite X-rated films.
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Summary: When The Groove Tube hits, it is a riot.
Review: I first saw this movie about five years ago with a friend who had just had surgery. She nearly busted her stitches out. You will not laugh harder than when this movie hits its target. There are some sketches that miss their target, but overall, it is really funny, and best of all there are several different levels of humor, if you like slapstick, there is plenty here. If you are more intellectual, and like irony, this movie has that, too. I just bought it and it is even better now that I am a little older and get some of the references. Check out "Brown 25," "The Dealers," and "Koko the Clown." These three, especially should have you near tears.
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Summary: Outrageously hilarious!
Review: I first saw this, taped from late-night cable, when I was 12 and thought it was the funniest thing I had ever seen. The opening sketch with the goofy guy running after the cute hottie through the woods, and what happens to him is something that'll have you rolling on the floor in hysterics! "The Dealers" is also pretty damned funny as well, and no-one can ever forget the Public Health spot toward the end.
Ken Shapiro also directed "Modern Problems", starring Chevy Chase, and while it may not be for everyone, I still think it's got some funny stuff in it. I have no idea what else he's done between these two films, or afterwards.
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Summary: Funny Movie but DVD is lacking
Review: I have little to add to what the other reviewers have to say, but I'm surprised no one mentioned that this DVD has no extras (forgiveable) and is a fairly crummy print of the movie in pan and scan only (unforgiveable). The Koko The Clown segment is pure genius and probably the best thing in the movie. I was surprised at how well this film has held up, having not seen it in years. This film must have inspired _The Kentucky Fried Movie_ and the little known _Can I Do It Till I Need Glasses?_ (which is much cruder than Groove Tube or KFM). I gave this movie 3 stars due to the crummy print of the film, not due to the content.
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Summary: watch "Kentucky Fried Movie" instead
Review: I love these whacky kind of comedys, and when I heard about this one I tried to track it down for about 2 years. Finally after it's release here for under $5 aus. I was highly disapointed by waiting in anticipation for what I was sure was going to be histerical 'cause of what other reviewers wrote about it..
It was a complete bore for about 30 minutes. I didnt think what they where doing was funny at all. The only funny bits where a couple of the sketches Chevy Chase was in and an amusing puppet. But the 4 or 5 laughs I had during this movie didnt save it.
I'd recomend you watch Kentucky Fried Movie instead of this snore fest. Even it's attempt a stoner humour failed. Beleive me, i love these kind of movies, but this is by far one of the biggest piles of $#!% I have ever seen that so many have said is a classic. It doesnt compete with goof satire movies like...
- Kentucky Fried Movie
- Airplane / Flying High 1 & 2
- Naked Gun 1, 2 & 3
- Repossessed
- Silence Of The Hams
- Spaceballs
- HotShots 1 & 2
- Loaded Weopen
- Scary Movie
- History Of The World
- Young Frankinstein
- Anything by Monty Python
check out one of those instead.
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Summary: This is a classic
Review: I will defend this movie.
Sure, it's low budget. Undoubtedly, it's crude and vulgar. At times, it's just brilliant satire. Nonetheless, "The Groove Tube" maintains a very consistent level of humor. Often times, it's just downright outrageous, and I cry. And, it's all done without a large Hollywood budget or concerns for political correctness which nows infests American society. Hell, back then political correctness was just being conceived. There's an abortion I would have happily supported.
Thirty years later, the humor is still relevant. The humor is still cutting edge. Nothing is sacred. I can only imagine the outrage, if this film were to be released today. Planned Parenthood would be screaming for litigation.
I will admit two things. The drug dealer sequence is boring; it just doesn't fit in and hurts the flow of the film. Secondly, I have sat in a room of people and was the only one laughing hysterically.
It's a little bit National Lampoon and a little bit Saturday Night Live at it's prime.
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Summary: Cheap, Uncreative Excrement
Review: If Amazon.com let me, I would have rated this dvd NEGATIVE 5 stars. Some actors really do some movies that stink, but this is one of the very, very, very few movies Chevy Chase acted in that smell like it had been floating in a sewer for centuries. The true indication that comedy is uncreative is when they resort to nudity as a crutch. One scene was really obscene. The scene was a children's clown asking every non-kid to leave the room before he read sexually explicit passages from romance novels. If you are thinking of buying this, do this. Cash your paycheck. Pay your bills and with what is left, flush it directly down the toliet so you can cut out the middle man.
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