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Summary: what are yall smoking
Review: possibly the worst movie ever. dumb plot. mediocre acting. not funny or scary seen it all before in a better movie.
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Summary: YAY!
Review: This was a great movie with a cool DVD. It all started out as a
simple birthday prank...gone totally wrong. One of the girls
stuffed a golfball-sized jaw-breaker in her mouth to keep her
from screaming. The girl accidently swallows the enormous
jawbreaker and chokes herself to (real) death. The death sparks
unknown scandell...but no one knows it is her. I reccomend it.
Rent it at your own risk.
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Summary: Jawbreaker featuring Rose McGowan
Review: I thought that Jawbreaker was one of the most fun and scary films I have recently seen. Not only was the plot good but with the brilliant line of great actresses, it was a good film to watch!
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Summary: the most painful 40 minutes of my life
Review: This is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. The first time I ever walked out of a theater was during this .... I kept thinking-"this can't get any worse and then watched in horror as it did." The script and the acting seemed to be in a competition as to who could do a poorer job. It looked like it was put together on a twenty dollar budget. Plus the jawbreaker was the size of a baby's head. If you buy this movie you will regret it,... Never tell anyone you own it.
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Summary: Surreality Does NOT Bite...
Review: This eye-catching Darren Stein teen satire caught MY eye several times while flipping channels, but I'd never caught the film from the beginning. Finally, I watched it from beginning to end, and I enjoyed it so much, I watched it again. ............. Rose McGowan plays Courtney Shayne, a viciously hateful head of a 4 girl highschool clique. All four are beautiful, stylish, spoiled and naturally, cool with capital "C". There's cohort Julie Benz as Marcy Fox aka "Foxy" (her neckplate states), she is a stereotypic "dumb blonde" unquestionably following Courtney's rules. Rebecca Gayheart plays Julie Freedman. She's a wholesome, sweet girl looking for fun, and friendship. .............. The movie opens fabulously as the three girls disguise themselves, and break into their friends bedroom on her birthday. They figure they'll "Feed her pancakes, and strip her... (ect.)", and they'll all have fun giving her an unexpected surprise. We come upon the unusual title of the film, whenCourtney brutally stuffs a "Jawbreaker" golfball size candy into her mouth and then duct tapes it shut. The three then throw her in the trunk of the car. When they arrive at their destination, the trunk opens again, to reveal a far bigger suprise than the one they planned. Their friend is suffocated, eyes wide, dismayed, and unmistakably dead. All this in the first 5 minutes!! ............... The three girls react in totally different ways. "Foxy" freaks, Julie wants to tell someone and get help, and Courtney, being the leader, decides coldly and calculatingly to cover it all up. They take the friends body back home to the bed where they kidnapped her from, and try to make it look like murder. While the three argue about what to do, into the house walks nerd Fern Mayo (Judy Greer). While delivering homework to the now dead classmate she has secretly idolized, she overhears what happened, and see's the body. To shut her up, Courtney offers her a makeover, a new identity, and passport to chic and cool to rule the school. From a pact with the devilish Courtney, "Violet" is born. After all, Fern is a Plant, so Violet is a Flower, according to Courtney's logic. Violet, now the new mysteriously cool chick everyone wants to know better, comes to overshadow Courtney's established cool rule, and all the more deliciously bitchy trouble begins............... This movie is a true masterpiece in the teen genre realm. It touches on similar ground with "Heathers" as well as Keanu Reeves early effort "River's Edge." It's not laugh out loud hilarious, but it is most definitely, a black satire. There are amusing cameos from Carol Kane as a slightly indignant teacher, and speaking of "Foxy", the old 1970s "Foxy Brown", Pam Grier is terrifically dour and surly as a detective hilariously named Vera Cruz. ............. Besides the highly amusing and watchable cast, the film is such a visually attractive treat as well. The vividly sharp candy colors, and frequently surrealistic moods and moments in the cinematography, create even more of an offbeat and quirky feel, than the plot alone delivers. ............... All this and an outstanding soundtrack with the perfect song for every scene (the slow motion school hallway saunter of the three leads to "Yoo-Hoo" from Imperial Teen is my favorite) further takes this up yet ANOTHER notch, making "Jawbreaker" a must see, as well as a must hear!
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Summary: The best!!!!!!!
Review: Jawbreaker is by any means, the best. This dark comedy, it is just the best movie you can ever watch. If you don't own this movie then go out and buy it. I am not kidding. Look forward to the end of the movie, one of the best endings. This movie made me laugh and cry that's why it's a five!!!!!!
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Summary: Teen movie tries hard, but doens't succeed
Review: For years, I have been hoping for a breakthrough movie about teenagers. Jawbreaker is not that movie. It tries hard to be hip, funny and satirical. Perhaps it tries too hard. This is not to say there are not some good moments in it, but, like most recent entries in this genre, it winds up trashing the audience it is aimed at. This trend, I believe, is at the core of what's wrong with a lot of movies today. More on that later.Once again we have a high school ruled by a group of tyrannical brats, in this case three girls. [The school, by the way, looks like the ones in every other picture. In Movieland, no schools have been constructed since the end of W.W.II.] In the opening scene, we see Courtney [Rose McGowan], Julie [Rebecca Gayheart] and Marcie [Julie Benz] playing a prank of one of their girlfriends. Wearing masks, they break into her bedroom, tie her up and throw her in the trunk of a car. The idea is to publicly humiliate her. Courtney thought it would be efficient to gag the victim with a jawbreaker, and when they open the trunk, they find their friend has suffocated. Gruesome as this sounds, many successful comedies have been based on similar events, dating back at least as far as Arsenic and Old Lace in the 1940s. Writer and director Darren Stein, though, does not have the deft, whimsical touch such plot devices require. His lead characters are not bizarre or dizzy, they are simple mean and aggressive. One girl does find a problem with the crime and the attempts to cover it up. Yet it takes her forever to take affirmative action, probably because the movie's theme seems to be that some people will go to any lengths to be popular. When the homely, awkward Fern [Judy Greer] accidentally finds the girls out, Courtney's solution is to offer to transform Fern into someone just like herself. Fern jumps at the chance. I am not one of those who blames society's perceived anguish over today's teens on sex, violence and alienation in movies and on TV. Way back in 1955, James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo played truly troubled young people in Rebel Without a Cause. In 1976, audiences flocked to Carrie, in which a tormented teen with psychic powers got revenge by trying to kill all her classmates at the prom. We delighted at the antics of the sex and drug crazed kids in 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and we related to an alienated kid in the much praised Heathers [1989], whose solution to his girl friend's troubles was to kill everyone who made her life hell. These subject matters are nothing new, and this list does not include all those gruesome smash hit horror movies. The difference today, as I mentioned at the beginning, is how lowly the characters are. Every other word they speak is a profanity. If nothing else, this would eliminate a chance for a good script. The teenagers are shallow, they are relentlessly materialistic, and they have zero capacity to think for themselves. While I do know young people who act that way, they are a small minority of the ones I know. The rest may be trendy and a bit obsessed with rebellion, like prior generations, but underneath, they are just as bright and worthwhile as their parents and grandparents were. The way teenagers are represented in entertainment today can have no effect other than lowering their self-esteem, which, in turn can lead to all sorts of problems.
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Summary: stunk
Review: this movie should have flopped. i expected funnieness in it and i did get some unintentiontal laughs at rose mc gowan. dont watch this its absolutley horrid.
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Summary: Coulda been but wasn't....
Review: This movie, had it been written and acted better, could have been a classic. The elements were there. The plot was there. Maybe it was the editing...I don't know...but there were moments of sheer brilliance, I promise. McGowan's Courtney Shane sums up her influence by telling Vylette that "Courtney Shane is priority 1." Shameless! There should have been more scenes between Foxy and her father (who serenades her with Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now") and between everyone and Pam Grier. All of the actresses were too old to play high-schoolers...I think 22 should be the maximum cut-off age, and these girls are pretty well beyond that, especially Rebecca Gayheart, who if she isn't 30 already is definitely scratching at the door. They looked silly next to Tatyana Ali, who still looks young enough to play a high schooler. Some parts of the film are ridiculous...how would Courtney's having sex with a man in Elizabeth's bed somehow imply that she was raped if there was no physical evidence on the body? If she collected his semen and put it there, we certainly didn't see it. Plus, how did the whole school not realize that Vylette was Fern? I'm sure the teachers knew. Why didn't they? It's ridiculous. Other than that, decent film, some good laughs, great music. You may prefer to rent it rather than buy it if you've never seen it....people either love or hate this movie, there's no middle ground.
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Summary: fantastic teen comedy send-up!
Review: JAWBREAKER is a fantastic homage to the classic horror films of the 70's and cult high school films of the 60's. Three bitchy teen queens (Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart and Julie Benz) are thrown into a frenzy when a birthday prank backfires and they accidentally kill a close friend, a jawbreaker mercilessly lodged in her throat. Enter the hopelessly dorky Fern Mayo (Judy Greer) who stumbles onto the real reason behind the mysterious death. The girls have no option but to win the girl's silence, and include her in their circle of elite, but not before changing her image and her name...to Violette. Featuring veteran comedienne Carol Kane and legendary "blaxploitation" star Pam Grier, JAWBREAKER is a superb film, written and directed by the talented Darren Stein. The DVD includes director's commentary, interviews and behind-the-scenes, music video "Yoo Hoo" by Imperial Teen and the trailer.
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