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Summary: The worst movie I've ever seen
Review: This movie is utterly and completely without redeeming value. The only good thing I can possibly say about The Stupids is that it gives me a ready answer when someone asks me what the worst movie I've ever seen is. It blew away Jurassic Park II, and that's saying something. I wish I'd seen it in the theater, just so I could have made it the first and only movie I've ever walked out on.Note: I'm not saying it's stupid - I love stupid movies. It's just bad. All the four- and five-star reviews are obviously and pathetically from people affiliated with the wretches who made this waste of celluloid. Did I mention I hate this movie?
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Summary: The most horrible movie I've ever seen!
Review: This movie was SO STUPID! I saw it when I was like 6 or 7 and we left the theater about 35 minutes into the movie! The only reason I saw it was because the trailers looked funny. "SOMEONE'S STOLEN OUR GARBAGE AGAIN". Then Tom Arnold chases the garbage truck down the street screaming to give the garbage back. Okay, I can see how that might be funny, but not here because it just gets annoying after awhile. This movie is now available in video stores and I'm here to save you from it. Do yourself a favor and DON'T SPEND YOUR HARD EARNED CASH!
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Summary: The WORST movie ever
Review: This was quite possibly the worst movie that has ever been made. It is pure dripple, I saw it in the theatre and EVERYONE walked out within the first hour. STAY FAR AWAY
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Summary: The funniest movie ever made!
Review: Tom Arnold plays one of the most stupid (no pun intended) characters I have ever seen. The kids are wackos, the mother runs into the closet when she wants to go outside. A great watch!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: A bold, shining gem in a sea of gray!
Review: What a bold, mad act of genius it was, to make ''The Stupids,'' or even think that it could be made. In the words years later of one of its stars, Jessica Lundy: ''If you are the man with the money and somebody comes to you and says he wants to make a comedy with no plot, no jokes, and not much reason to exist either, and he wants to spend a huge amount of money to go film it --what would you say?'' The impulse to make this movie was based, above all, on imagination. The story of ''The Stupids'' is not founded on cheap melodrama, but on John Landis's ability to imagine. He had to know how that would feel before he could convince himself that the project had a chance of being successful.
''The Stupids" is not a simple biography or an comedy movie--although it contains both elements--but a movie that uses a quest concerning "stolen" garbage as a stage for the flamboyance of a driven, quirky man. Stanley Stupid must be the strangest hero ever to stand at the center of an epic. To play him, John Landis cast one of the strangest of actors, Tom Arnold, a chubby, almost clumsy man with a beautiful sculptured face and a speaking manner that hesitates between amusement and insolence. Tom Arnold's assignment was a delicate one. Although it was widely believed that the Stanley Stupid character was a homosexual, a multimillion-dollar epic filmed in 1996 could not be frank about that. And yet Landis and his writer, Brent Forrester, didn't simply cave in and rewrite Stanley Stupid into a routine hero. Everything is here for those willing to look for it. Using Arnold's peculiar speech and manner as their instrument, they created a character who combined charisma and craziness, who was so different from conventional heroes that he could inspire his family to follow him in a mad "stolen" garbage conspiracy investigation. What Landis, Forrester and Arnold create is a sexually and socially unconventional man who is simply presented as what he is, without labels or comment.
For a movie that runs 86 minutes, ''The Stupids" is not dense with plot details. It is a spare movie in clean, uncluttered lines, and there is never a moment when we're in doubt about the logistical details. The dialogue in these scenes is not complex, and sometimes Forrester makes it so spare it sounds like poetry.
I've noticed that when people remember ''The Stupids,'' they don't talk about the details of the plot. They get a certain look in their eye, as if they are remembering the whole experience, and have never quite been able to put it into words. Although it seems to be a traditional narrative film -- like ''Bridge on the River Kwai''-- it actually has more in common with such essentially visual epics as Kubrick's ''2001'' or Eisenstein's ''Alexander Nevsky.'' It is spectacle and experience, and its ideas are about things you can see or feel, not things you can say. Much of its appeal is based on the fact that it does not contain a complex story with a lot of dialogue; we remember the quiet, empty passages.
The word ''epic'' in recent years has become synonymous with ''big budget B picture.'' What you realize watching ''The Stupids" is that the word ''epic'' refers not to the cost or the elaborate production, but to the size of the ideas and vision. Werner Herzog's ''Aguirre, the Wrath of God'' didn't cost as much as the catering in ''Pearl Harbor,'' but it is an epic, and ''Pearl Harbor'' is not.
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Summary: EW
Review: Ya, this movie is definatly awful. To bad it isnt possible to give it 0 stars cause that is what i would give it. This is bny far the worst movie i have ever seen. and I have seen a lot af stupid movies. The plot is rediculus in the fist plave, no one is that dumb. The acting is awful, who could act in a part that dumb. Just trust me on this, the movie is to stupid for words. I saw this movie about 6 years ago and still no movie has been as bad as this one.
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Summary: EW
Review: Ya, this movie is definatly awful. To bad it isnt possible to give it 0 stars cause that is what i would give it. This is bny far the worst movie i have ever seen. and I have seen a lot af stupid movies. The plot is rediculus in the fist plave, no one is that dumb. The acting is awful, who could act in a part that dumb. Just trust me on this, the movie is to stupid for words. I saw this movie about 6 years ago and still no movie has been as bad as this one.
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Summary: Thank the Lloyd for this movie!
Review: Yes, this is an incredibly stupid movie. Yes, the acting is not so great. Yes, this might have been a waste of everyone's time...well, probably not Tom Arnold's. But you have to see this movie. This is the most zany and random movie I've ever seen. I think the best part is when Tom Arnold is disguised as a bush, and goes off about how he is part man, part bush, master of both worlds..."Bush-man, you are supreme!" Either that or the drive bee...you have to see it, I don't think I can explain it adequately. Or perhaps even the Stupids meeting with the Lloyd, a janitor they mistakenly believe is the Lord, God, and hence the title of this review. A couple friends and I rented this one night when we must have been partially insane, and it has provided moments of hilarity when we bring it up ever since. Just give it a chance...depending on your sense of humor, you won't regret it.
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