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Summary: Disturbing Behavior
Review: James Marsden is by far my favorite. He is the best of the best. Even Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt cannot compare to him. I am collecting his videos. I wish Hollywood will recognize him as the best. I watched this video five times.
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Summary: Sort of entertaining, but frankly laughable overall.
Review: While having the guts to dare to be something completely different in the horror genre, Disturbing Behaviour is not a movie I would highly recommend. It ranges from entertaining to average to totally laughable and ends up being somewhere in the middle. None of the performances stick out really, maybe except Nick Stahl's as the very literate over-paranoid Gavin who gives the audience a surprise at the end. The direction shines only in the scene of the psychiatric hospital, and the script is muddled with what its trying to achieve. Its nice to see Katie Holmes in a different light and in heaps of sexy tops, and the cool soundtrack is refreshing, but neither can save what this movie really misses out on: plot build-up, thrilling sequences, a good running time and atmosphere to its moody and interesting premise. Disturbing Behaviour is average when it doesn't take itself too seriously, it's good when it tries hard and is downright awful when no effort goes into thinking how the audience will react.
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Summary: Better than you think
Review: This movie is one that definately should be seen by everyone that can handle it. It deals with living for what you want for yourself, not what everyone else wants, and does it in a way that will send chills up your spine. No gory scenes; a few shocks in a hospital add to the feeling of all out creepiness. The high school students in a small town are changing from druggies and slackers into picture-perfect, and parent-perfect, model students (called Blue Ribbons), and no one in town seems to mind. The problem is, the students didn't do it willingly; their parents signed them up for a program that alters their minds. When a new student finds that one of his friends has been changed into a Blue Ribbon, he decides to do something about it. You find yourself rooting on the misfits and booing the jocks. An excellent supporting cast surrounds James Mardson, who does a wonderful job of winning the fight and winning the girl at the same time; the girl being Katie Holmes, one of the most talented actors of her generation, who manages to knock out the school football champion.
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Summary: Clever Body Snatchers Remake
Review: Disturbing Behavior is essentially the third remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". This time, it's been cleverly reworked for the WB set, and it often succeeds in being downright creepy, especially in a genuinely unnerving scene which takes place inside a mental asylum. Especially noteworthy is the film's take on "The Pied Piper of Hemmelein". Not quite as frightening as the third filmed version of this story, "Body Snatchers", but not a bad remake at all. In fact, all four film versions have been surprisingly good.
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Summary: There's One Reason To Spend Your Time Watching This
Review: ...her name is Katie Holmes. Breathtakingly beautiful as ever, the makers of 'Disturbing Behavior' must have thrown her in to at least get SOMEthing out of their film. 'Cause there's not much of a story. Or rather, we've seen it all before.'Disturbing Behavior' is more original than 'The Skulls', on the level of 'The Faculty', but contains, what, one scary scene. 'Scary' is maybe too strong a word. But go ahead, rent it on a lazy afternoon, and enjoy Katie Holmes' gorgeousness. But do not expect much more from the film.
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Summary: Weak laugh inducing effort
Review: This film is a strange attempt that rips off too many decent horror films to count. Katie Holmes can't be faulted for this turkey, she tries her best. The premise is weak, and the horror is virtually nonexistent. I think maybe it would play out better for a young audience however, all others stay away. The janitor is extremely amusing.
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Summary: Decent Movie-Essential DVD
Review: DISTURBING BEHAVIOR by itself was a decent, slighly above average film that was marketed as teen horror, when it really is fueled by the same kind of paranoia that director David Nutter worked with on "The X-File's". Seeing it in the theatres, I was surprised by how little it relied on scares, and instead was a more plot-driven quirky sci-fi film. The big problem, however, was the lack of development for many of the character's (particularly William Sadler as the "more-than-who-he-seems" janitor). Therefore, the film was fun and original, but also nonsenical and abrupt. Well, thank god for DVD. DISTURBING BEHAVIOR ranks right with BRAZIL in my opinion as a film the studio did the best they could to commercialize and destroy it (in BRAZIL's case the director won). On DVD, eleven deleted scenes, all with optional commentary by David Nutter can be viewed, and every single one of them adds a great deal to the film. While the great tragedy of the package is that you can't view the film with all this footage added, watching each cut scene seperately reveals a great amount of debt that this film (originally) had. The best of these scenes is definitely an extended meeting between Sadler's janitor and the James Marsden character. In the film itself, this brief meeting shows that the janitor might be more than he seems, but is so brief as to be completely confusing. With the added footage, Sadler brings great poignancy to his character, gives some extremely valuable information on the beginning of the changes in the town, and delivers the (would be) film's best line: "This town sucks for heroes; you looking to be the first?" It's a tragedy that this scene was cut, and you can practically hear David Nutter weep over losing each one of these scenes. The alternate, much darker ending on the boat completely changes the tone of the film and adds a great sadness in its scope, which in my opinion could have gave the film the potential to at least be a solid piece of work, rather than a so-so hackjob. Anyone truly interested in film and its development should consider this film essential (regardless of whether you actually like DISTURING BEHAVIOR or not). An example of how studios can ruin movies, watching this alongside the criterion DVD of BRAZIL shows the difference between what happens when the director wins, and what happens when the studio does. DISTURBING BEHAVIOR could have been, at the least, a good film, but it instead a curiosity. I only wish that one day they re-release this film WITH the added scenes (directors cut anyone?), because I have a feeling that we might have a cult favorite on our hands.
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Summary: There's a reason it's bad.
Review: Contrary to what some people may say, the reason this movie's bad is simply because it's dumber than a doorbell, is extremely dull, and features far better ideas than it deserves. For a better film of this plot, go to the original Stepford Wives. For a better young-adult oriented horror film, go with Dean Koontz's Phantoms.
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Summary: Mixed feelings about this one...
Review: First of all let me say, this flick has one heck of a great soundtrack. I'm not slighting that in any way. A couple things though... For one thing, I have a few issues with the scene where James Marsden is introduced to the cliques at Cradle Bay, by Nick Stahl. Nick is terrific, don't get me wrong, but I just thought that the scene played up James Marsden's whole "outsider" thing a little too much. Sure, there are dramatic reasons why that should be done, but does the director seriously expect us to swallow that James Marsden comes from somewhere where cliques like that don't exist?!!? They're everywhere! Face it. They'll never go away. My other problem was just that, well, it seems too bad to make such a big deal out of "high school" as an experience, in some ways. It's dramatic enough when you're in the middle of it -- sometimes I wonder if movies like this do more harm than good. When you're that age, you're probably better off trying to look beyond it, to your twenties, when whatever problems you might have, at least you have some choices about what you do everyday. Just a thought. Beyond that, it's a fun movie. It makes real statements -- not incredibly original ones, but real statements. I can respect that. Still, whoever reads this, please think about what I said above. Just my two cents worth.
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Summary: awful, and overdone
Review: the plot on this film was very bad. the acting, well nothing to be desired. it was just another one of those trendy "horror" films that have all the fav. teen actors in them.
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