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Summary: A clever comedy!
Review: staring ben stiller you've got to like him or u really dont, but in this fiml he plays the part so well.
not only is this film a good laugh, the old lady is such a character, like the annoyin old granny that asks u to do everything from cutting her toe nails to washing her toilet. i watched this film not having a clue what it was about, and i wasn't disappointed at all, i was glued to the screen, and i never saw the ending coming at all.definatly a film worth purchasing, but if your not sure, rent it and i bet your not disappointed.
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Summary: Neigbor From Hades....
Review: Alex and Nancy's dream house becomes hell on earth, when their upstairs neighbor torments them with endless small requests and complaints. While normally I do not like this type of movie, I found Duplex to be an amusing film. I won't spoil it, but if you like dark humor, you'll like this one. The ending was the best part of this film. Four Stars.
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Summary: Awful...
Review: I usually like Ben Stiller's comedies, but this movie was just awful. The plot was ridiculous and the comedy wasn't even mildly funny. The sneak previews on the DVD were more entertaining.
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Summary: Enjoyable But Not Quite...
Review: Duplex has been harshly reviewed, for compared to many comedies of late, without naming titles, it is not bad at all.
The story is of a young couple, a writer and a journalist moving into a duplex to start a new phase in their lives and try for a baby, but one thing they did not plan for is the tenant of their first floor who is not the sweet old lady she appears to be, and many accidents, disturbances and interferences ensue.
Ben Stiller is always wonderful to watch no matter how great or mediocre the film is, for he has this rare talent that reminds somehow of Peter Sellers in Pink Panther..His 'helpless' expressions and 'victim's face' has made many of his performances endearing.
Drew Barrymore, is very sweet and looked relaxed in her role, while Eileen Essel, the British TV theater actress in her first feature film, does a very good job and managed to play her character with a mixture of 'anyone's grandmother' and Tatie Danielle.
Danny DeVito is undoubtedly not a bad director, even if he has had mixed results so far, from the excellent War Of Roses, and Matilda, to the average and disappointing Death To Smoochy. Duplex I believe falls between the two, and this is maybe the problem of the film and hence my three stars,
There is something missing from the film..I don't know quite what it is, since there are many hilarious and disgustingly funny moments not quite out of place in a Farrelly Brothers movie, but I remained totally detached, unconnected and without much sympathy for any of the characters...When the credits role, you will not help feeling that the whole project lacked inspiration..
So Duplex is not a bad film and you will certainly have a few laughs, but it will be a type of film that you will think pretty hard before watching again..
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Summary: I was waiting for the old lady upstairs to pull off her mask
Review: As far as enjoyable movies go, this was not one of them. There are some people who enjoy dark humor. This movie definitely crosses the bridge into "just an awful plot to begin with". Towards the middle of the movie, as the plots to remove the old lady upstairs continue, my girlfriend told me that it would still be "allright" to watch if the ending was satisfactory. After a few more attempts to remove the old lady, she revised her opinion to "no good ending could ever save this movie." If you are looking for a mix between Scooby Doo and Home Alone 2, with some awful writing, you have found it.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: As a big fan of Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore and the kinds of films they have worked on previously I was quite disappointed. It was quite weak in plot and although it had a few laughs, the the old lady is scary as anything at the end so watch out. Don't go out of your way to buy this one but it might be worth a quick look if you want a few laughs from a predictable comedy.
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Summary: fair,...
Review: Well I just finished watching it, and I must say it had its funny moments. The movie is about a writer and his wife. Who buy a home which is a duplex.
Basic story crazy neighour,how do we get rid of her?. It had it funny moments, the bath scene,the mouse scene.. very funny. I will say dont expect to much from the movie but it ends how you least expect it!
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Summary: Danny Devito takes this WAY too far
Review: People love Ben Stiller, and I thought he is a good comedian, too. A movie starring Ben Stiller usually marks a hot, comedy success, and I'd say that to his movies such as "There's Something About Mary" and "Meet the Parents". However, all comedians tend to have at least one movie that's fails to pay the bill on humor. Richard Pryor has his with "Superman III", and Ben Stiller has his with "Duplex", a movie that made a mediocre comedy like "Zoolander" seems like "Monty Python's Holy Grail". Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore were newlyweds who just owned a Duplex(surprised?) in the Brooklyn neighborhood. There, it lived an old Irish woman on the upper level of the Duplex who's "delighted" to see new landlords. Courtesies and friendly greetings aside, its looks as though the couple will get used to the easy life as Ben would finish his second novel and Drew would be a more out-going as both a wife and a decorator, but they haven't a clue that living with the nice old lady would eventually bring them hell. The old lady starts asking Ben to help around her room while he was doing his novel in a strict deadline, fixing the bathroom pipes and consuming dozens of hours of escorting the lady to the pharmacy, counting prescribed pills. Drew, later, takes his place to share the torture. Exhausted and peeved, Ben eventually loses his book deal, Drew loses her job at some newsletter business, and since their troubles came from the old lady's ranting, they decided to off her for good. This may sound like a good dark comedy by paper, but in its final product, this slapstick movie is really a punch in the face. I found nothing funny about this movie. Some of its sick humor, like the vomiting scene, was unnecessary and tedious. In all honestly, the whole movie really upset me. Don't get the wrong idea to think that I don't get dark comedy. I watch Scary Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, and shows like Mad TV, these were funny in the dark comedy genre. I can't say the same for this movie, it just isn't. There's little humor that I haven't seen already and the deliveries were spastic. The one thing in that REALLY got my knickers in a twist is the ending of this movie, which I didn't see it coming, and all the better to breaks this movie in two. Let's see: it's not funny, it's insulting, and there's hardly any extras on this DVD. This movie got me, got me questioning, "Where is the love?" Danny Devito just overdid himself directing this flick, and because of that, I failed to see any humor in this movie, I failed to find any enlightening about this movie, and I failed to make any kind of recommendation for this to anybody. Even if you're a huge fan of Ben Stiller, this isn't worth your viewing time.
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Summary: Does it get funny the second time around?
Review: I really think that this is one of those movies that gets better the more times that you watch it. Being a huge Ben & Drew fan, I was entertained but I felt like I had to force the laughs. A dark comedy about an old lady who lives upstairs making the landlord's miserable with her loud tv/music, parrot and constant complaints. Enter the thought of killing the old lady. Similar to the she-nan-igans in Home Alone, the schemes backfire on the two over...and over....and over....and over again.
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Summary: truly abysmal
Review: My wife gave up on it after a half hour. I wanted to like it (hey, I paid $4.00 to rent it) so I made it another half hour before turning it off. The script is awful and the film is an embarrasing mess. Actually, when I was 12 I might have found the vomiting gags amusing. It's hard to imagine why Ben Stiller and Drew Barriemore were willing to stoop to these kinds of antics. I lost an hour I can never get back.
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