The Jerk

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Summary: A True Classic
Review: If you havent seen this movie you are truley missing out my brotha! Steve Martin is great in this movie. I think that this his definitly his best movie ever. Steve Martin plays a man named Navin who left his poor black family from the south (yes BLACK family) to start a new life of his own. Steve goes to St. Louis and starts working at a gas staion and then gets another job at a carnival where he meets his true love. I dont want to tell you everthing about this movie because it is so great and you must experience it for yourself!! Buy this know!!! This is one of the top 20 funniest movies of all time!!!!

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Summary: Still Funny..after all these years!!!
Review: "The Jerk" is timeless! Top of the list for funniest movies of all time! BRILLIANT! Steve Martin is a true genius!
Must own on DVD so you can watch it again and again!!!

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Summary: "It was never easy for me . . . "
Review: Awesome movie, one of my favorites. Very unique humor.

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Summary: ya mean I'm gonna stay this colour? *sniff*
Review: Carl Reiner shines as director and Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters shine as Navin Johnson and his future bride.
The film opens up somewhere down south with Navin and the family of sharecroppers who took him in. Navin begins to see how "different" he is from his family and they soon tell him he was adopted. His mother (Mabel King) proudly tells him she would
love him if he was "the colour of a baboon's *ss.
Navin soonafter leaves home going out on the road in front of his
house. He then begins hitchhiking when a truck comes down the road, the guy stops and says to Navin. "How far ya goin?" Navin says. "St.Louis, how far you going to which the driver says "To the enda this fence". Navin says"Ok" hops in throws his bag into the back of the truck and rides to the end of the fence.
The film has similar events(you can't help but laugh) at Steve Martin's style and skill at being comedic in whatever he does.
He then finds a job at a gas station owned by (Jackie Mason)
who offers Navin a job as president of Texaco Oil (go figure)
The film had me laughing start to finish.
I had the pleasure of seeing it on the big screen when it was first released in 1979
Hysterical! ***** I'd give it 6 stars if I could
enjoy!

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Summary: Hey, I'm rating this DVD!
Review: This DVD is just, just, well it's just just. The film is on my top 10 list but, the quality of the picture and sound staggers me! Why pay extra for the DVD (as opposed to the VHS)? On both the DVD and VHS, scenes are cut out from the TV version. FULL SCREEN? Come on! I know that some people find the little black bars frustrating, so make it 4:3 AND 16:9. When Carl Reiner shot this, he most likely thought that the only future was VHS, so he made it a good full-scren movie, but, man. I know of deleted scenes (not included), Carl Reiner and Steve Martin are still alive (no commentary or interviews!), NO restoration or remasterment of ANY sort, I could just complain about this DVD all day, but all I'm really trying to say is that I would like a aniversery restored and remastered, Dolby Digital 6.1, WIDESCEEN, deleted scenes, commentary, interviews, 2-disc DVD. Maybe someday. I know its a lot to ask, but this movie is TOO good just to cheaply dish out like ice cream. They rushed to get this DVD out, but they really didn't need to. I love this movie. I hate this dvd.

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Summary: The Best Steve Martin Film ever!
Review: Steve Martin is one of my favorite actors, but that is not why I love this film. The gags and humor are spot on. This movie is timeless. I have watched this movie since I was a kid and I still laugh 10 years later.

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Summary: "I'm not a bum...I'm a jerk!"
Review: After realizing that he's going to "stay this color", Navin Johnson (Steve Martin) leaves the black sharecroppers that raised him to find his way in the world. Navin is as dumb as they come, and in his travels he encounters a sniper, a carnival, his first love (Bernadette Peters), and his patented invention that revolutionizes eyewear! A hilarious rags-to-riches-to-rags story, and Martin is certainly an underdog to root for here. His only intelligent move was his invention, and even that went awry. Hysterical dialogue and situations still stand up wonderfully today.

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Summary: Scenes missing in DVD Too!
Review: This is not the MOVIE that gets 4 stars, its the published DVD. Why in the world they have missing scenes even in the DVD version is beyond my comprehension. I just saw the TV version the other day and realized that even more footage than I had previously thought is just simply not in the movie, and the DVD has virtually no extra content at all other than cast bios. This movie is just a pure classic, and why they would tear it apart in the DVD publication is a mystery that deserves an answer!

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Summary: 5 turned to 4 due to chopped scenes on VHS edition.
Review: This is one of the funniest movies ever made! BUT I bought the "Home Video Version" on VHS and was sickened to find that they cut out various hillarious scenes for no apparent reason. Scenes that even the TV version includes! Two unforgivable examples: A Rich Texas guy asking for money so he can get the leather seats on his jet fixed. And another charity-seeker with a book showing unbearable atrocities. If you want the WHOLE movie, DVD may be the way to go!

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Summary: Martin's Film Debut -- Not the "average" Comedy!
Review: Steve Martin's first Hollywood project is the story of a 40ish simpleton who was abandoned as a child, and ended up growing up with a black family that took him in. Being of a simple mind, the "jerk" never realizes that he is "different" from the rest of his family. Suddenly filthy rich from a silly invention, the new "situation" should threaten the integrity of the mentally challenged man, but he remains the pure sweet man 'his mama had raised proper'. When it all turns back to mush, his true friends remember the man who started out with just what he had afterwards...nothing. -- Bernadette Peters is great as Martin's love interest (which she will be again in the soon to follow "Pennies From Heaven"), as are the many veteran Comedians appearing in small roles. "The Jerk" set the tone for this new kind of comedian, who insists that "Comedy isn't Pretty!". -- This is a very funny movie, but it also gives us a lot to think about. Recommended!****