Slums of Beverly Hills

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Summary: It was incredibly exhilarating!
Review: Slums of Beverly Hills was one the funniest movies out there. I saw it more than four times, and I would see it again. It was astounding.

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Summary: One of the Worst
Review: I was really disappointed!!! This movie should have gone somewhere with the top notch actors it has. Anyone who rated this with more than one stars has a VERY different sense of humor OR is just being very generous. I'm sorry but I have trouble laughing at unmarried unemployed pregnant 29 year old female druggies, pot dealers, potheads, and masterbation. Dancing with the vibrator was the only humerous spot. I suppose someone had to make a movie to let us know there are two sides to Beverly Hills.

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Summary: 50/50
Review: This movie has some hilarious moments, but it was excrutiating to sit thhrough some of the long drawn out white-trash dialog. I understand the context of the white-trash theme being necessary to complete the humor, but it should have been more campy and less of a painful documentary. I have friends and family who lived like that, I didn't see anything charming about it. Only watch it if you don't have anyhting better to do.

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Summary: Mostly pointless
Review: Mostly a waste of time, with some amusing moments, especially when Tomei and Lyonne dance with a vibrator. But the real question is why Tamara Jenkins thought that anyone would care about her life story . . . .

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Summary: All in all, an ugly little movie
Review: This movie has a top-notch cast. Natasha Lyonne is absolutely wonderful as the big-breasted teenager. It's very hard to like any of the characters, though, and most of them are downright obnoxious. This is certainly not a date movie.

Most of the little stories aren't very believable, so it's hard to take this movie seriously as a drama and it's definitely not funny. All in all, an ugly little movie.

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Summary: If you raised kids, you can identify
Review: You know the Tolstoy or Tolstoi quote, "all happy families are the same and unhappy families are different" or something like that...well, this is a movie about dysfunctional families, the other kind Tolstoi refers to. But there is a positive love force going on; at least, Mr. Arkin cared about his kids and tried in his own way to take care of business.

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Summary: THIS MOVIE IS WRONG
Review: there's just one thing and one thing alone that I can say about this movie

THIS MOVIE IS WRONG

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Summary: Now *this* is a comedy.
Review: As endlessly hilarious as (though more wirily subtle than) Clerks, Slums of Beverly Hills succeeds in spades where so many other screwball comedies fail -- characterization. Tamara Jenkins' wacked-out sensibility and wit were already evident in her student shorts, but they always lacked something more substantial than spunk and wit. In Slums and its feature-film length Jenkins finds the space necessary for her to flesh out her gags with emotional content and real circumstances.

Granted, she was also lucky to have found Natasha Lyonne, the perfect voice for Jenkins' dialogue and situations. Spunk, sensitivity, wit and fighting spirit are all part of what makes Lyonne's character Vivian so memorable. From the hilarious and weirdly expressive title sequence on (the staging of which is reminiscent of the end credit sequence of Doris Doerrie's Men), Lyonne captures the restless energies of her character as well as the feelings. Alan Arkin plays with Lyonne marvelously to create a feisty yet charming family dynamic.

And then, of course, there are the gags. Tampon discussions under a table, dildo dances, sexual experimentation, a Manson-head, beautifully rendered comic voice-over (as good as the last great voice-over performance I can remember, Ray Liotta in GoodFellas) by Lyonne, forks in legs, bras, gibberish...a laugh-fest that feels like it ended too soon, when most comedies just make you wish they'd ended sooner. Don't let this gem pass you by.

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Summary: Who Cares?
Review: The people who gave this movie more than one star must have a different sense of humor than I do. I thought this movie was one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time.

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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER> THATS MY ALL TIME FARITE
Review: I LOVE THIS SHOW****