Muffin Man - HD Edition

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Summary: This movie is a total waste
Review: I can appreciate the lesson that this movie was trying to teach but it was a complete waste of time. It was not funny. The acting and the cinematography was poor. The special features were boring. If want to see an entertaining and informative DVD on the subject of obesity, "Super Size Me" is the one to see.

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Summary: I really loved this movie
Review: I can see why some people would not like Muffin Man. It is campy, politically incorrect, low budget, and - well - just kinda strange. However, it is also extremely intellegent, subtle, and really well done. I have watched it a few times and am amazed at the things that I keep noticing (mostly food related knick-knacks in the apartment).

As noted in other reviews, the music is fantastic. I want a soundtrack CD!

If you like cult movies like Eraserhead, Clerks, Little Shop of Horrors, you will probably love Muffin Man. If you're used to the unimaginative high budget slop that Hollywood pumps out every day, you'll probably want to skip this.


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Summary: horrid
Review: I thought I'd like this because i liked supersize me, but this is really lousy.... except at the end when a canteloupe has sex with a banana, that's cute.

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Summary: NOT so subtle message, you'll either love it or hate it.
Review: Incredibly sad yet visual commentary on our obese society. I guarantee if you are part of the "it's not my fault fat society" you will hate it, if you aren't you will love it. Give it to your to your friends who need to learn "pushaways", with a nice note about the plot. I lost 30 pounds after I saw it!!!!

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Summary: I LOVE IT - although I resemble that remark!
Review: Muffin Man is hilarious and as my U.K. friends would say "Brilliant, just brilliant!" It's not only the lyrics (that another review mentions), you can watch it over and over and still pick up clever little details you missed before. I agree it's at least "parental guidance" but the people who trashed it must not have a sense of humor! \;-)

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Summary: Please don't waste your money on this!!!
Review: Please ignore all positive reviews of this item. This is one case where the editors got it wrong. This DVD is not informatve or even slightly entertaining, giving it zero replay value. After buying it, I watched it once and then sent it to my brother. Now he's upset with me, because he already had it and knew how bad it was. (He bought it as a package deal with Supersize Me) Please don't make the same mistake we did.

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Summary: Great Idea, Abysmal Implementation
Review: The writer came up with a great idea for a mockumentary: Let's "study" the life of an obese human being through the cynical lens of a sarcastic scientitic study and show how this morbidly obese individual got into such a grotesque state. So I jumped on the chance to buy this DVD, thinking it was a complement to the wonderful Super Size Me. Sadly, though, the writer focuses on obvious, scatalogical, and predictable jokes. The DVD grows tiring after ten minutes or so. The production values are more crude and amateurish than a third grader working with his outdated multi-media computer. I own over a hundred DVDs and this one could very well be the worse one I've ever bought.

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Summary: Hilarious Movie!!!!
Review: This movie captures your attention immediately with it's style and then takes you on a "laugh riot" to the end. The concept covered in Muffin Man is one of great global concern and while this movie won't be shown in Elementary School Science classes, it is surprisingly appropriate for groups or individuals stuggling with obesity issues. It makes "the point" with extreme wit and clever details. Speaking of details...if you only watch this movie once, you'll likely miss many of the subtle enuendo and visual jokes that make this film so, so entertaining. Give this movie to your loved ones who know they have a weight problem and have not had success in dealing with it. You might be pleasently surprised when it "edutains" them into new behaviors.
Lastly, the soundtrack is incredible and in addition to being excellent music..it amplifies the humor. Listen to the lyrics closely.
All in all, a very hilarious and fun movie you'll want to see.

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Summary: Very strange, but good movie
Review: Watching Muffin Man is like watching Walt Disney's "Fantasia" with a slight buzz. It just kind of hits you in that certain way and you don't quite know what to think about it.

It took me a while to realize that the deadpan narration is a spoof on a poorly done Discovery Channel documentary. Once I thought of it like that, everything seemed a lot funnier.

I bought the DVD on the recomendation of a friend, who said it was like an early John Waters movie (I live in Baltimore and am a big John Waters fan!) I don't think it's anything like John Waters, but I can't think of anything else that it's like, either. Muffin Man is unique, strange, and funny.

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Summary: You'll either love it, or be terribly offended
Review: You cannot judge this movie by conventional standards. It is meant to be a completely different genre all by itself, and must be judged as such. I was lucky enough to be in Seattle last December and saw Muffin Man at it's theatrical premier. I laughed so hard I thought I was going to pee my pants. There were a number of overweight people in the audience, and I thought they would be offended but they were laughing even harder than I was.

The humor in Muffin Man is exceptionally intellegent, and I'm sure many people just won't get it. On the surface, it may appear to be one big "fat joke" but there's a lot more to it. This is really a social commentary on our overly excessive civilization; our tendancy towards overeating is just one part of it.

There are a lot of subtleties that I missed the first time through - it was a lot of fun to go back and see it again on DVD.

Overall, the acting and production values were top notch. The behind the scenes footage was interesting, but not very well edited, it looked like it was thrown together pretty quickly.

Specific to the HD Edition: this movie was filmed in High Definition, and although it's a "low budget" production, it really looks incredible. I am a producer myself and have a passion for digital cinema, and this movie shows that you really can make an extremely high quality production on a limited budget. I have all of the Windows Media High Definition IMAX disks, and they truely bring a theatrical experience to the living room. You will need an HDTV and a relatively fast / new PC to watch the HD version, but with the "Media Center" computers, this is pretty much mainstream nowadays.