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Idle Hands

Idle Hands

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Idle hands- Really Great movie
Review: This movie is so cool!
The acting is so good and it's funny to!
For All your Rob Zombie Fans he is in this movie to I recommend it to everyone

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Too stupid to be horrible or funny, but I love Jessica Alba
Review: Remember all those really campy films from the 1950s such as The Crawling Hand? Idle Hands is basically the same type of movie, only much sillier, much campier, and in some respects embarrassingly bad. The filmmakers really don't even bother to explain the whole silly concept; a corporeal, murderous hand on the rampage normally doesn't need a lot of background info, but in this case Anton (Devon Sawa) simply has his own hand somehow possessed without the rogue hand causing all the mischief even finding him. Only after Anton cuts his hand off, do we return to the more traditional animated, murderous hand on the rampage theme, and that works much better than Anton's constant battle to control what his right hand is doing as long as it is attached to his arm. As far as the rest of the explanation goes, we have a Druidic priestess (Vivica A. Fox) trying to find and destroy the hand before midnight Druid time, at which time the hand will take a soul into the netherworlds. In my opinion, this story doesn't even begin to work.

A little bit of comedy is supplied by the always-funny Seth Greene (who plays Mick) and his buddy Pnub (Elden Henson). These two, along with Anton, are the triumvirate of lazy, pot-smoking teens (just the type of victim said hand likes to prey upon). Probably the funniest part of the film involves the reappearance of an undead Pnub and Mick (who carries his severed head around with him most of the time); the staircase to heaven, they said, was just too far to walk, so they decided to just stay on earth. The only bright spot in this film, and the only reason I wanted to see it, is Jessica Alba. I was somewhat amazed to see some of the facial expressions and attitudes she would later display in her role in the incredibly good TV series Dark Angel.

Idle Hands is just too stupid to be at all horror-inspiring, and it is too stupid to even be funny for the most part. I usually love these types of campy films, but in this case I would have to say that the fellow with the most idle hands of all was the scriptwriter, as he really didn't give us much of a story for this film.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Yucky and Funny...2 thumbs up ! ! !
Review: I'm not at all a slasher movie fan, but for some reason I had to see this. I think it was because of the comedy overtones I read about. I must say it is definately funny. I really enjoyed the comedy approach as the movie went on. I was reminded of the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness series(you'll see). As for the senseless gore...I could've done without most of it. However, they did a pretty good job on the blood, make-up and special effects.
This movie would make a great Halloween flick. It's really creepy at times and great for a laugh at other times. I'll keep this one in my DVD collection just for that right moment.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I MADE THAT-THE ASHTRAY I ALMOST BELIEVED-THIS NO WAY
Review: The devil will find work for Idle Hands to do-but what happens when it finds the laziest slacker around?

Idle Hands is one awesome movie about a teen slacker who discovers his hand is home to the devil-and its gone on a killing spree!

And now Anton has to stop the hand from doing things that he doesnt want it to do!

Of course the best one and the total entertainment of the movie is Seth Green-who becomes really cool after he gets that bottle in his head!

I watch this movie all the time-I think that its great and really totally funny and fun!

I want to buy the dvd of course!

GET YOUR HANDS ON THE HOTTEST NEW TEEN HORROR COMEDY!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Halloween horror-comedy is bloody awful and gross
Review: Idle Hands (1999) Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, Vivica A. Fox, Jack Noseworthy, Katie Wright, D: Rodman Flender.

Teenage couch potato-stoner discovers Satan possesses his right hand and he can't control its murderous impulses in this dreadful horror-comedy.

Movie is just as dopey and lazy as its character is, and its high gore quotient rules out its low laughs (in both senses). Might attract its aimed audience of teenage boys and Fangoria Magazine readers.

Running Time: 90 minutes and rated R for horror violence and gore, pervasive teen drug use, language, and sexuality.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of my favorite movies
Review: You need to buy this movie if you don't have it already it's hilarious the movie is about a stoner named antwon whose hand gets possessed and he kills his mom and dad without knowing it. But when he and his friends realize what he's done his hand kills them sounds scary but it's not. Thats when the movie gets funny. This movie is not good to rent just BUY it you won't regret it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Must for Horror Fans!
Review: Idle Hands is tailored to the needs of two types of people. 1) The Slackers. If you're the lazy, do nothing type then it will surely be a humorous ocassion relating to Sawa's character. He becomes the poster child for the idle teens of America, meanwhile making us laugh at his lethargic antics. 2) Those who love and have seen many horror movies. Unfortunately, unless you hold a certain level of experience in the horror genre, you are missing out. The makers of Idle Hands have masterfully placed jokes and cliches into the plot that the majority of moviegoers won't understand. Many consider the undead characters ploy as an unoriginal attempt at bad humor. Have these people not seen An American Werewolf in London? Or even the remake? Idle Hands is clearly poking fun at those in films. If it didn't have its own plot, then it would be called a parody. Only the jokes are more subtle and much more intelligent than those of spoofs like Scary Movie.

So, attention slackers and horror fans, check Idle Hands out. It's characters are both fun and funny. 75% guarantee that you'll love this movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A TOUCHING STORY OF A BOY AND HIS RIGHT HAND
Review: IDLE HANDS WAS THE FUNNIEST HANDS FILM I SAW SINCE EVIL DEAD 2, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST FILMS OF 1999, IT HAS DOPE SMOKER ANTON KILLING HIS PARENTS,FRIENDS,COPS,AND ANYONE WITHIN REACH.IT SOUNDS TASTELESS BUT IT IS QUITE HILARIOUS FOR A HORROR-COMEDY FLICK. A VERY HILARIOUS FILM.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious
Review: I will start by saying that this horror comedy steals a gags from both Evil Dead 2 and Peter Jackson's Dead Alive, and takes a camera shot almost directly from The Shining, but what better movies to lift ideas from anyway?
The movie is about a teenager who does nothing but sit in front of the television all day long. His right hand gets posessed because it has nothing else to do, and it starts killing friends and neighbors, etc.
Less horror, more comedy, this movie had me smiling the entire time. Very, very funny.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Could not stop lauging
Review: This movie has the perfect balance of comedyy and horror. The animals in this movie are great. If you like what happens to the cat in Christmas vacation you will love what happens to it here. Jessica Alba is another upside in this movie adding a somthing that all guys want to see. Caution to those of you with weak stomachs or to some uptight people, this movie is really bloddy, has stoner humer, and has female nudity.


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