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Summary: A very lovely and funny comedy
Review: It is a great sentimental story, with a great plot and numerous events and surprises, filled with lots of good ideas, great dialogues, beautiful pictures, superb houses, great music from the Corrs etc. The movie does not skirt the Tourette Syndrome, and gives an excellent, although partial, description of it. Also the movie gives a hint about how various opposites can alter the meaning of the same concept, cf. the scene with the plane pulling a streamer saying "I am [not] yout brother, marry me!". Altogether it is an extremely entertaining movie.
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Summary: The spirit of Bunuel stalks Hollywood.
Review: It's not every mindless Hollywood gross-out comedy that is inspired by Luis Bunuel, the Spanish Surrealist and one of the giants of world cinema. 'Say It Isn't So' - the heartwarming story of a young dog-catcher who finally finds the right woman, only for her to be his sister - contains at least two direct allusions to Bunuel's work - the upending of a disabled person ('L'Age D'Or'); and the use of female body hair as a male beard ('Un Chien Andalou') - but the film is imbued with his anarchic spirit, his satirical targets, his motifs and his procedures. Like 'L'Age D'Or' or 'That Obscure Object Of Desire', 'Say' is a tale of amour fou and frustrated love, in which a 'nice' or 'respectable' man, humiliated and degraded through his obsession with an unattainable woman, becomes crazed and violent - the scene where the former animal-rights sentimentalist starts abusing a cow is truly shocking. As in many Bunuel films, the uncontainable sexual energy derailing the characters is displaced onto the euphemistic imagery - most notably, images of castration abound (bad hair-cuts, ears being lopped off etc.), that suggest the infantaile sexuality or masculine crisis that afflicts the hero, whose downfall is orchestrated by his false mother. This undermining of masculinity is seen in the various violences done the male body throughout the film. Genre is invoked only to be brutally undercut - the road movie, the Western, but especially the romantic comedy, which is nauseatingly indulged in the first quarter hour only to be smashed by the shock revelation. As in 'Viridiana' and 'Los Olvidados', the 'normal', heterosexual narrative, with its attractive stars and conventional linearity, is mocked by the profusion of 'beggar'-type grotesques - in this film, they are the norm, the pretty people are the freaks and perverts. Teeming animal imagery bleakly undemines the human pretensions towards the Ideal and Progress, both hobbled by instinct. All this allows the filmmakers to indulge in hostile, anti-bourgeois sentiments, attacking marriage, the family (Paul Hammond suggests the affair in 'L'Age D'Or' is incestuous; see also the acronym of this movie), bourgeois greed and hypocrisy, and the complicit Law are all violently attacked. If the paralell sounds far-fetched, we must remember that Bunuel denigrated the European art film, and celebrated popular Hollywood modes such as slapstick comedy and melodrama.On the other hand, we could see 'Say' as a crass attempt to ape producers the Farrelly Bros., retreading their most famous set-pieces, characters and plot developments (sticky stuff in hair; problems with cows; decent hero put through comic horrors in pursuit of svelte girl; the gathering of a community of the disabled). But that would be cynical. ...
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Summary: Simpy awful
Review: Let me put it this way.....if there was a rating lower then this it would have it. Not only does this movie have no artistic or social value (In my opinion) but it is hands-down trashy. I am a fan of Sally Field, but I found her character rude, disgusting, and unimaginably hard to handle. Not only did the character insult everyone around her, but also her disabled husband. The movie was (bad) in many different ways. Sally Field's character is in a rush and her husband wants salt on her sandwhich so behind his back she rubs her armpits on the bread and says "now it is salty." Disgusting movie - flat out.
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Summary: Are these people joking?
Review: My gosh, what is wrong with the people giving this movie 1 star! It is a funny movie. The movie is about incest, but it is funny. It's weird, but the plot is kind of like marrying his sister. Anyways, the movie is funny. That dude from American Pie is in it, and he gets into trouble. The cow, the plane, and even the entire movie had me laughing hysterically. The movie is great. It's good comedy, I don't know why others say differnetly.
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Summary: Competent, but uninspired
Review: Say It Isn't So follows the rules for it's brand of comedy. Unfortunately, it seems to take a by the numbers approach to do that. While the "gross out" comedy has become a bit of a staple in the current film industry, there are always levels of ability. Just as there were great new-teen slasher flicks (like Scream), there were copy cat also-rans (like I Know What You Did Last Summer) and uninspired attempts at cashing in (like Valentine). While pleasant enough and worth at least a viewing, this movie leaves little impact. The romance feels gushy and forced and the comedy stretches too far at the expense of remaining true to the story. (Chris Klein gets his hand stuck in the back end of a cow while trying to get it to move and it drags him into town.) This would probably best be described as the "Valentine" of it's genre--a nice idea executed poorly in the attempt to get cash from the passing bandwagon. Heather Graham's performance seems phoned in from a soap opera set. Chris Klein offers a fairly dead on "bumbling lovable guy" performance from the Hugh Grant school of acting. The true star turn though is Sally Field as a trailer trash opportunistic mother hell-bent on marrying her daughter off to a rich jerk. Field shines as a truly great comic actress and should do more of this work instead of getting caught in feel-good tearjerking dreck. She may be the one thing that saves this movie from total failure.
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Summary: Competent, but uninspired
Review: Say It Isn't So follows the rules for it's brand of comedy. Unfortunately, it seems to take a by the numbers approach to do that. While the "gross out" comedy has become a bit of a staple in the current film industry, there are always levels of ability. Just as there were great new-teen slasher flicks (like Scream), there were copy cat also-rans (like I Know What You Did Last Summer) and uninspired attempts at cashing in (like Valentine). While pleasant enough and worth at least a viewing, this movie leaves little impact. The romance feels gushy and forced and the comedy stretches too far at the expense of remaining true to the story. (Chris Klein gets his hand stuck in the back end of a cow while trying to get it to move and it drags him into town.) This would probably best be described as the "Valentine" of it's genre--a nice idea executed poorly in the attempt to get cash from the passing bandwagon. Heather Graham's performance seems phoned in from a soap opera set. Chris Klein offers a fairly dead on "bumbling lovable guy" performance from the Hugh Grant school of acting. The true star turn though is Sally Field as a trailer trash opportunistic mother hell-bent on marrying her daughter off to a rich jerk. Field shines as a truly great comic actress and should do more of this work instead of getting caught in feel-good tearjerking dreck. She may be the one thing that saves this movie from total failure.
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Summary: One of the most comedic movies ever!
Review: Say It Isn't So is definitely my favorite DVD. This movie had some of the best writers ever! With an all star cast including Heather Graham, Chris Klein, Sally Field, and Orlando Jones, this movie offers constant humor. Take my word, anyone who has rated this film under 5 stars has no idea what they are talking about. BUY THIS DVD! Not only does it rock, the special features do too!
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Summary: Original & Energised Comedy film that revitalises it's GENRE
Review: Say It Isn't So is one of my favourite comedy's and makes me more interested in this genre I often overlook (I enjoyed it more than EDTV). Chris Klein bares a remarkable resemblance to Keanua Reeves. He also offers an mature and highly intelligent commenatry on the DVD (especially considering his young tender age of 22), even outshining the director. I expect huge things for Klein - he could even back up Reeves in the Matrix! What appealed to me about this movie is how such a likeable character can have so many things go wrong against the film's lead charactefr in Klien. Of note and warning , it does offer a contriversial and taboo subect with incest so it's bound to shock many people. But deep down this is a well crafted, highly spirited film with a intelligent insight voice over at the start, done by who else? Klein the man! Orlando Jones is amazing in this movie - the first time I have seen him. He provides a versatile, varied and welcome comic relief. What puzzled me about this movie was why the millionare would pick such an ordinary girl in Heather Graham to marry, I mean she doesen't come from a rich family or anything, more dysfunctional if you ask me, but aren't we all to some extent? So that part of the film wasn't clear or developed, but who cares!? This is a movie I wouldn't mind buying 2 copies of to give as a gift. Plus the subtitles were right on track in the DVD. The only complaints I have about the film is how the Australian Region 4 version is missing the Comedy Central feature. That again shows how lucky you US DVD collectors are - you get everything. One other minor gripe. The film does get a bit silly during the middle so it ain't perfect, but more than worth your money, never the less. There was a time I was about to turn it off at the beginning in how Graham could hold a job as a totally incompetent hair dresser, but stick with it and you will be rewarded enough to guarantee the film to your friends and family. A true romance film that even Klein describes as being Romeo And Juliet in the DVD commentary.
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Summary: A Dazzling piece of comic art
Review: Say it isn't so is the most creative film since the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It is full of jokes that just make you want to burst out in laughter. This film is a outstanding rental for the true comedy fan.
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Summary: The Worst of Its Kind
Review: Say It Isn't So! Tell me I didn't waste 95 mins of my life watching this DVD! I think I had pretty realistic expectations going in that Say It Isn't So wasn't going to be anything exceptional and I do normally enjoy the sick Farley Brother sense of humor, but Say It Isn't So is so painfully un-funny that it's hard to believe it ever made it past its first test screening. You'd think with actors like Heather Graham, Chris Klein, and Sally Field, you'd have at least a semi-watchable movie, but there couldn't be anything further from the truth! Say It Isn't So is one of those movies that is so bad in just the wrong way that it isn't even laughable as a bad movie. ... If you're looking for a good gross-out comedy I'd recommend some of the Farley Brother's other endeavors, including the much-overlooked Kingpin or even Dumb and Dumber. [Geoffrey Kleinman DVDTalk.com]
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