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Summary: How great
Review: Jenna Elfman is the best, so is this movie. Its funny, rent it!
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Summary: what a terrible movie
Review: Not funny and not believeable. It should be called Krippendorf's date rape...he gets her wasted so he can tape himself having sex with her...this is funny? And who believes she would fall for someone who could be her grandpa?!
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Summary: Rudiments of Psychology, Finally Put to Practical Use!
Review: Okay, basically, Americans to the greatest degree out of the world's peoples have got this experiential dualism going on here.
The World as it is, which has its few fans, admittedly; and the
World As Spectacle. The World As Spectacle involves the all the output of the major media outlets. The slapdash, synthesized world of the major media pulls off its massive Act by plugging us in to the ole Jungian collective unconscious (bear with me, if you please: this is more important than watching 'Frasier' and feeling like you're a part of his quasi-intellectual milieu).
So, the media plugs us in to the collective unconscious, where Archetypes rule the day. The images of Evil Man and Good Man are constantly being massaged by the media in times of war.
For example, take the Reagan Good/ Soviet Empire Evil concept.
Yeah, I don't really want to get into all the daggone examples, but suffice it to say that if you watch enough movies, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. Jung may not have described Aggressive Hero as a possible archetype, but you're gonna find an
unrefined Aggressive Hero stamp in the god-awful media typecasting of guys like David Carradine, Charles Bronson, Sly Stallone, and who could forget Seagal and van Damme?
Mr. Dreyfuss too, in a slew of films ranging from Close Encounters to Opus to this cinematic mess, Krippendorf's Tribe, has consistently played the Wise or Intelligent Man. Krippendorf's Tribe is interesting to watch because it's folly.
You've got the media issuing from your TV set, and your eyeballs form an image of this man, Dreyfuss, just playing a professor, and it's the same role he's always played, pretty much. Folly. Familiarity paired with appeal to the collective unconscious was supposed to produce some money-making movie. Ugh. This mass of words I've just written amounts to this: one of the lamest flicks ever made. Peace.
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Summary: The Case Of The Scandelous Shelmikedmu Scam!
Review: Pity poor Professor Krippendorf! His wife has died, he is doing only a so-so job of raising three dysfunctional children, and, as if he does not have enough problems already, he has sqandered money from his college that was supposed to be used to find a mysterious missing New Guinea tribe, which he has not done. His solution? Fake it. He announces the discovery of a make-believe tribe, the "Shelmikedmu" (the name derived from his childrens' names). One thing leads to another, and before you know it there is a national Shelmikedmu craze. Ah, but what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. Not all believe him and it is only a matter of time before the truth may be discovered. Will Krippendorf succeed or will he be caught? To give this movie credit, it has its funny moments. Dreyfuss is good as Krippendorf, up and coming actor Gregory Smith also holds his own as Krippendorf's son. Unfortunately, there is a major problem with this movie - Krippendorf is is the wrong! This guy has stolen college funds, lied, corrupted the morals of his children, and we are to believe he is the good guy. If the move has a moral, it seems to be "it's okay to do something you shouldn't, as long as you don't get caught". That is a no-no.
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Summary: The Case Of The Scandelous Shelmikedmu Scam!
Review: Pity poor Professor Krippendorf! His wife has died, he is doing only a so-so job of raising three dysfunctional children, and, as if he does not have enough problems already, he has sqandered money from his college that was supposed to be used to find a mysterious missing New Guinea tribe, which he has not done. His solution? Fake it. He announces the discovery of a make-believe tribe, the "Shelmikedmu" (the name derived from his childrens' names). One thing leads to another, and before you know it there is a national Shelmikedmu craze. Ah, but what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. Not all believe him and it is only a matter of time before the truth may be discovered. Will Krippendorf succeed or will he be caught? To give this movie credit, it has its funny moments. Dreyfuss is good as Krippendorf, up and coming actor Gregory Smith also holds his own as Krippendorf's son. Unfortunately, there is a major problem with this movie - Krippendorf is is the wrong! This guy has stolen college funds, lied, corrupted the morals of his children, and we are to believe he is the good guy. If the move has a moral, it seems to be "it's okay to do something you shouldn't, as long as you don't get caught". That is a no-no.
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Summary: Krippendorf's Funny!
Review: Professor Krippendorf got so caught up in being a parent after his wife passed away that he spent his anthropology grant money with nothing to show for it. In essence, he embezzled it. Having broken the law and ruined his career (if he gets found out), he decides that there's really no difference between a small fraud and a big one and so he goes ahead to invent a giant hoax. The popularity of the bizarre tribe he invents is so immense that he can't escape its vortex and takes shameless advantage of everyone including his family and his amorous and greedy grad student to perpetuate his humbug. What makes this flick funny is the over-the-top, go-for-broke way in which the characters abandon every moral fibre. And then there's the surprise ending!
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Summary: One of the 10 worst movies ever made.
Review: The premise of this movie, involving a hairbrained anthropology professor, a lusty grad student, some misappropriated grant funds and a completely invented tribe of New Guineans, is clever. Unfortunately, this movie (pardon what I'm about to say) chews up a good idea and regurgitates it onto the screen. The plot and directing is completely implausible from start to finish. The depiction of native New Guinean tribes is utterly fake, silly and Hollywoodized and, frankly, treats native peoples in an offensively stupid manner. The contrived comedic situations are almost never funny. I chuckled once or twice, but most of the time stared in disbelief at the poor taste and childishness of it all. This in spite of the fact that it has two very skilled actors. Which proves a timeless truth -- actors and their agents are almost always terrible judges of both scripts and directing. Unless you suffer from the same flaw, you will not enjoy this movie.
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Summary: One of the 10 worst movies ever made.
Review: The premise of this movie, involving a hairbrained anthropology professor, a lusty grad student, some misappropriated grant funds and a completely invented tribe of New Guineans, is clever. Unfortunately, this movie (pardon what I'm about to say) chews up a good idea and regurgitates it onto the screen. The plot and directing is completely implausible from start to finish. The depiction of native New Guinean tribes is utterly fake, silly and Hollywoodized and, frankly, treats native peoples in an offensively stupid manner. The contrived comedic situations are almost never funny. I chuckled once or twice, but most of the time stared in disbelief at the poor taste and childishness of it all. This in spite of the fact that it has two very skilled actors. Which proves a timeless truth -- actors and their agents are almost always terrible judges of both scripts and directing. Unless you suffer from the same flaw, you will not enjoy this movie.
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Summary: Nothing Wide about this Screen
Review: This is a great DVD movie for all, but especially anthropologists and other university types as it shows Dreyfuss' characther doing what he can to keep his grants and his prestigious job. It is indeed "hysterically funny" and "wildly hilarious" as the covers say and despite its lack of extras is a fine disc so rush out and buy it and... Wait, there's one little problem...WHERE'S THE WIDESCREEN? The back specs say Widescreen, so why is it FullScreen? Granted, the 'home movie' film clips would be difficult to render Wide, but still, why say it is when it is not. Very disappointing, which is why I give it only 3 stars and suggest being careful if that is what you want, otherwise, enjoy. Also, if your looking for another movie like this, check out Joe Versus the Volcano with Tom Hanks.
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Summary: fun movie -- worthless DVD
Review: This movie is great! Richard Dreyfuss and Jenna Elfman are a good team, and the three child actors who portray the children of Dreyfuss are really good, too. This is a good movie for the family to enjoy together, as there is little or no foul language or nudity. You will laugh a lot!
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