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Summary: Enjoy it if you are delightfully demented!
Review: This is the sort of movie you have to be sick (in a cool way) to appreciate. This movie was previewed as a romantic comedy but I'm glad it turned out to have an edge.I am a tremendous fan of dark comedy ever since I saw Arsenic and Old Lace at the age of six. Therefore, I kind of feel like I know something about the genre. If you were expecting something cute to give you warm fuzzies, this is SO not the movie for you. However, if your idea of comedy is to watch madcap murder mayhem with some romance added to balance it out, the check out Home Fries, it's worth the view!
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Summary: The WORST movie ever made. bad bad bad
Review: This is the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life. I now compare all bad movies to this. If I don't like a movie I always say that was a bad movie, but it's no Home Fries.
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Summary: Ridiculous and funny dark comedy
Review: This movie has enough plot twists and comic relief to keep anyone's attention. Loved Drew Barrymore. I found myself getting pulled in by the drama, only to laugh outloud. A fun relief from reality. That is what movies are for, aren't they?
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Summary: 2-D caricature of a black comedy
Review: This movie is awful. I am neither a Drew Barrymore fan nor a detractor. It seems her fans are the few that actually like this movie. The plausibility factor is zero which absolutely guts the humor premise. A good part of my tastes embrace dark humor but this movie looks more like an elaborately staged non-funny improv. They were reaching for Repo-Man but managed to bottom out under Peggy Sue Got Married instead. If you read all the reviews you will find someone who mentions this is the stinker they use to grade all the other movie farts. I agree whole-heartedly with that assessment.
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Summary: misunderstood comedy
Review: This movie is built on characterizations and macacbre humor. It's not necessarily a romance "chick flick," but rather a detour into dark humor with an idiotic plot. By saying "idiotic," I surely don't mean "bad." Actually, this kind of movie is perfect for the odd twists and turns it has. It's been very misunderstood probably because of the fact that it was clearly marketed as a "chick flick" -- and when viewers expecting another cute "Never Been Kissed" style movie from the fact that Drew Barrymore is in it -- it gets mostly negative reactions. It's actually a good movie. Perhaps it's an aquired taste; but then there are movies such as "Beetlejuice" that sort of contain the same over the top, macabre humor. And "Beetlejuice" was very popular back in the 80's. A great example of this humor is in place when the mother (Catherine O'Hara) tells one of her two sons that she likes them exactly the same, and holding two fingers a couple inches apart, she says, "with a difference of this much." And the plot is none the less actually entertaining. It's kind of fun to know what happens next. I'd give it 4 1/2 stars, but there is no "1/2" so 5 stars it'll be. (Also, the main rating for this is kind of low as well, so why not give it some help?)
Rating:
Summary: misunderstood comedy
Review: This movie is built on characterizations and macacbre humor. It's not necessarily a romance "chick flick," but rather a detour into dark humor with an idiotic plot. By saying "idiotic," I surely don't mean "bad." Actually, this kind of movie is perfect for the odd twists and turns it has. It's been very misunderstood probably because of the fact that it was clearly marketed as a "chick flick" -- and when viewers expecting another cute "Never Been Kissed" style movie from the fact that Drew Barrymore is in it -- it gets mostly negative reactions. It's actually a good movie. Perhaps it's an aquired taste; but then there are movies such as "Beetlejuice" that sort of contain the same over the top, macabre humor. And "Beetlejuice" was very popular back in the 80's. A great example of this humor is in place when the mother (Catherine O'Hara) tells one of her two sons that she likes them exactly the same, and holding two fingers a couple inches apart, she says, "with a difference of this much." And the plot is none the less actually entertaining. It's kind of fun to know what happens next. I'd give it 4 1/2 stars, but there is no "1/2" so 5 stars it'll be. (Also, the main rating for this is kind of low as well, so why not give it some help?)
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Summary: Exhilarating
Review: This movie is intelligent, fun, and portrays small town life in a hauntingly truthful way.The actors are wonderfully cast. Drew shows a sweet and delightfully innocent side to a character usually doomed to wear a "Scarlet Letter". Her family, portrayed by Shelley Duvall, her mother, Lanny Flaherty, her father, and little brother Benny, Zachary Moore, are the epitone of the tragedy, enmeshment, and love that binds families seeking refuge in family crisis centers all over the world daily. To see their lives juxtaposed with the insanity of the "normal" family life of "Dorian", played by Luke Wilson his brother Angus, played by Jake Busey, and their borderline personalitly mother played by Catherine O' Hara was hilarious and poignant. Will we ever hear or see from Benny again? He played a very belivable little brother to Drew, they even look alike.
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Summary: Charming Drew Barrymore movie!
Review: This movie is really good, with good-humored comedy, drama, and romance. The music really fits, and Drew Barrymore and Luke Wilson are charming in this "two-thumbs up" movie. Rated PG-13 for violence, language, and a scene of sensuality.
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Summary: dry humor is intelligently subtle but funnier
Review: This movie is very funny. Appreciating it's dry, intelligent humor you will like it more every time you watch it. The characters portray a range of human traits that are humorous because we all know people representative of those traits. The acting was especially good on the part of Luke Wilson and Drew Barrymore. Wilson is so natural at it. His facial expressions are hilarious when his character is uncomfortable. His body language reminds me of what Jimmy Stewart does in some of his comedies. And Drew acts with charm and believability. Try watching the movie in closed-captioned you may notice more of the mumbled language that makes the movie funnier.
There are a lot of funny things but you have to pay attention to catch them. There is a scene where the sheriff and his deputy are walking away from a dead person in an old drive-in movie theater and they walk zig zag around the benches to get back to their car instead of climbling over them. One scene show Luke's character, Dorian, thinking of hamburger assembly while at a funeral.
Enjoy all the little subtle things: the trailing off conversations, the facial expressions, the body language. It's funny in real life so it's funny here too.
Rating:
Summary: dry humor is intelligently subtle but funnier
Review: This movie is very funny. Appreciating it's dry, intelligent humor you will like it more every time you watch it. The characters portray a range of human traits that are humorous because we all know people representative of those traits. The acting was especially good on the part of Luke Wilson and Drew Barrymore. Wilson is so natural at it. His facial expressions are hilarious when his character is uncomfortable. His body language reminds me of what Jimmy Stewart does in some of his comedies. And Drew acts with charm and believability. Try watching the movie in closed-captioned you may notice more of the mumbled language that makes the movie funnier.
There are a lot of funny things but you have to pay attention to catch them. There is a scene where the sheriff and his deputy are walking away from a dead person in an old drive-in movie theater and they walk zig zag around the benches to get back to their car instead of climbling over them. One scene show Luke's character, Dorian, thinking of hamburger assembly while at a funeral.
Enjoy all the little subtle things: the trailing off conversations, the facial expressions, the body language. It's funny in real life so it's funny here too.
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