Rating: 
Summary: Boy, are some people going to get a surprise!
Review: I can just see some innocent family going into the video store and seeing the box for this, which says it's "Funnier Than Something About Mary" and thinking oh, this is probably a fun little comedy. If they think it'll be a black comedy like "Heathers", they are also gonna get a nasty surprise, since it's waaaay more dark and gruesome and downright meanspirited. It's stupid that they are advertising it as "If you liked Something About Mary, you'll Love..." they are both tasteless comedies, but VBT makes SAM look like a Disney movie in comparison. Yeah, there's disgusting stuff in SAM but it's all vulgar sex-related humor, but in VBT the humor is more in the vein (har!) of Mia Wallace getting the hypo of adrenaline jabbed into her heart in Pulp Fiction. Hey, I like that kind of humor, so I liked this movie, though the misogynism got a little old. I rented it because a friend said he admired the filmmakers for making such an incredibly nasty, mean-spirited mainstream movie, and it was an OK movie worth a rental. It seems like most of the reviewers on the IMDB either loved it or despised it ("YOU BETTER STOP SELLING IT") but I would give it, like, a B minus. Christian Slater's self-actualization psycho act got old after a while but the other actors were good, and I think Cameron Diaz is overrated in general but I really liked her performance in this, she was great as the spoiled stressed-out bride who crosses the line and goes totally psycho ("This is MY DAY!!!"). It's also one of those 'what-would-you-do-if-it-happened-to-you' type movies. If I were one of the guys I would have cleaned up the coke, put away the booze, and called for an ambulance and the police right away- they were all so rich they probably could have found good sleazy lawyers who could have gotten them off with a slap on the wrist at most. I also like the fact that everyone pretty much gets what they deserve by the end of the movie, and it has a nice downbeat ending. Worth renting, but NOT if you have a weak stomach or are overly P.C. or easily offended. The box makes it look like a light comedy with some black humor, when this is really one sick frikkin' movie that I am surprised got away with an "R" rating.
Rating: 
Summary: very dark comedy
Review: I'm not a huge fan of Peter Berg the actor, but Peter Berg the writer/director made a great movie. It is a well written script, hilarious, though in a very, very dark way. I love the title, so simply understated that it adds to the humor. It's a well thought out, well shot film. And there are some phenomenal performances by Jon Favreau (always a pleasure to watch), Cameron Diaz (who I've never seen do poorly), Leland Orser (in such an understated role), Jeremy Piven, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and the always panicky, Daniel Stern--who does guilt so well. And the star performance is by Christian Slater, who plays his role so well it is a flashback to his heyday when he was getting good roles like this. And for those who bother to dig, there is an extra surprise to add to the humor, Berg cast porn star Kobe Tai as the hooker. This was a well done movie if not a well done dvd. There are no extra features on it. No featurettes or making of. No commentary, though the film seems to beg for one. I'm disapointed in the dvd, but I love the film.
Rating: 
Summary: BERG YOU SUCK. Sincerely, Marty
Review: What do you get when you put a bunch of good actors in a movie and have them scream at each other for 90 minutes? Plenty of dark comedy in that! It's funny cuz they kill more people! Then they scream some more! Then Cameron Diaz screams too! Then they all scream for ice scream! WAKKA WAKKA!
Rating: 
Summary: Gleefully nasty
Review: If Quentin Tarantino had somehow commandeered "There's Something About Mary," you might have gotten something very much like "Very Bad Things." Written and directed by Peter Berg, heretofore best known as one of the nicer doctors on TV's "Chicago Hope," this is a gleefully nasty mix of black comedy and bloody mayhem, completely uninhibited by any trace of good taste. You may hate yourself in the morning, but you will find yourself laughing at out loud at its worst excesses. Come to think of it, you may hate yourself even while you're watching the movie. But you'll probably laugh anyway. It helps, of course, if you suspect the worst of Christian Slater after reading tabloid accounts of his off-screen misadventures. As Robert Boyd, the self-appointed leader of a bachelor party that gets horribly out of hand, Slater does everything but wink at the audience to signal his eagerness to live down to our expectations. A prostitute accidentally dies during the riotous get-together in a Las Vegas hotel room. Not surprisingly, Robert is the first to suggest that calling the police wouldn't be such a great idea. On the other hand, he thinks it would be a smart move to silence an intrusive security guard. With the utmost reluctance, the groom-to-be (Jon Favreau), the inadvertent killer (Jeremy Piven) and two not-so-innocent bystanders (Daniel Stern, Leland Orser) agree to help David bury their mistakes. Nothing good comes of this. "Very Bad Things" may seem thoroughly amoral, but don't be fooled: There's actually a twisted sense of justice at work here. Cameron Diaz is splendidly monstrous as Laura, Favreau's fiancee, who seems almost as sociopathic as David while she prepares for her elaborate wedding. She will let nothing -- not even a dead body or two, or three -- spoil her big day. In the end, however, she gets exactly what she deserves. So does just about everyone else.
Rating:
Summary: DELIVERANCE in Las Vegas
Review: Actor Peter Berg (He played Zed in PULP FICTION) steps up to the plate with this hilarious darkly morbid comedy, his first directorial effort. It's not a home-run, but it's at least a first base hit. I liked this film because it had similarities to John Boorman's classic male boding opus, DELIVERANCE. An handful of best buddies go out on a wilding-type adventure. There's an accidental death, which is covered up by a murder. Bad events just continue to snowball up until the end of the film, a scene where Cameron Diaz, mostly untouched up until now by the grisly goings on; obsessed with cementing the perfect marriage falls the hardest. Jeremy Piven plays a good stretch with the Ned Beatty role here, it's his fault that every one must suffer. But Christian Slater gets the best lines in the film as the Burt Reynolds character...it's his job to clean up the mess and get his jittery friends stories straight, no mean feat! He stresses that what they are all engaged in is "Love Pumping," not covering up one bloody murder with another. He comes up with this nugget of motivational logic right whilst explaining to a suspicious cop that he doesn't know the reason why his dead friend had tried to run over his own brother with a minivan, pleading temporary amnesia to his currently being, "in Full-on grieving mode, ofiicer..." Full on, indded!
Rating: 
Summary: this is the title of my review
Review: I love this movie! It's just that you must not take the movie too serious. In this movie everything goes wrong and if you can't stand that you should have watched Saved by the bell or something...
Rating:
Summary: Boy, are some people going to get a surprise!
Review: I can just see some innocent family going into the video store and seeing the box for this, which says it's "Funnier Than Something About Mary" and thinking oh, this is probably a fun little comedy. If they think it'll be a black comedy like "Heathers", they are also gonna get a nasty surprise, since it's waaaay more dark and gruesome and downright meanspirited. It's stupid that they are advertising it as "If you liked Something About Mary, you'll Love..." they are both tasteless comedies, but VBT makes SAM look like a Disney movie in comparison. Yeah, there's disgusting stuff in SAM but it's all vulgar sex-related humor, but in VBT the humor is more in the vein (har!) of Mia Wallace getting the hypo of adrenaline jabbed into her heart in Pulp Fiction. Hey, I like that kind of humor, so I liked this movie, though the misogynism got a little old. I rented it because a friend said he admired the filmmakers for making such an incredibly nasty, mean-spirited mainstream movie, and it was an OK movie worth a rental. It seems like most of the reviewers on the IMDB either loved it or despised it ("YOU BETTER STOP SELLING IT") but I would give it, like, a B minus. Christian Slater's self-actualization psycho act got old after a while but the other actors were good, and I think Cameron Diaz is overrated in general but I really liked her performance in this, she was great as the spoiled stressed-out bride who crosses the line and goes totally psycho ("This is MY DAY!!!"). It's also one of those 'what-would-you-do-if-it-happened-to-you' type movies. If I were one of the guys I would have cleaned up the coke, put away the booze, and called for an ambulance and the police right away- they were all so rich they probably could have found good sleazy lawyers who could have gotten them off with a slap on the wrist at most. I also like the fact that everyone pretty much gets what they deserve by the end of the movie, and it has a nice downbeat ending. Worth renting, but NOT if you have a weak stomach or are overly P.C. or easily offended. The box makes it look like a light comedy with some black humor, when this is really one sick frikkin' movie that I am surprised got away with an "R" rating.
Rating:
Summary: a black hole
Review: I give this movie a cautious 2 and 1/2 stars in that it is stomach churning and many of the scenes and situations have the potential to temporarily damage one's perception of humanity; especially younger viewers. However, it is intriguing as this movie is the ultimate parody of the yuppie dream. The viciousness and lack of remorse of Christian Slater's character is unsettling; along with his unrelenting rationalization of every black deed they have committed. This movie is not funny...it is ironic in the blackest sense of the word. The characters are snatched out of their cookie-cutter lives into a world, created by their own hands no less, that is quickly spiraling out of control. One by one they are killed off by one another until the movie lurches to its sickening finale. The juxtaposition of many young, naive children who are oblivious to what exactly is happening to the sanity and lives of their parents is painful to watch. The biggest hitch, however, is the lack of sense in this movie. The way the events unfold; the police, family members, etc, is logically retarded to say the least.
Rating:
Summary: AWFUL
Review: Save your time AND your money. Thank the gods I didn't pay theater money, only to have to walk out after the first half hour (as apparently many did). I hit "Stop" on my remote control and went on to better things.
I love black comedy, but this movie falls FAR SHORT of being a good black comedy. Obviously there are many who disagree.
I recommend you look elsewhere for your black comedy because this movie SUCKS.
Rating:
Summary: Very SICK Things
Review: I dont know why everyoen thinks this movie is so graet. I saw it once and it was about a bunch of idiots who didn't know to kill the idiot who kept teling them to murder people, just becuse he liked that.
The guy who was getting married shouldnt have let hsi friends hire a prostitue, and then, they shouldn't have done drugs. I had a friend who did drugs but he didn't kill anyone. That I know of.
Finaly they killed the idiot, but only after nearly everyone else was dead. Then that stupid woman the guy was marrying wanted him to kill his friend and the DOG! What kind of sick person would want to kill the dog? It never murdered anyone or slept with prostitutes or did drugs. The dog should have been the hero of the movie. I forget what happened to the dog, because I stopped watching the movie there and went to get a drink. Anyway, this movie is something that only a murdering, raping, dog-hating druggie would want to watch, over and over. I'd rait it zero stars but I cant.
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