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Summary: A funny film for all ages with a great message
Review: This terrific feel good film is just right for all ages. It has great acting, a wonderful romantic story, and an even better message. With many memorable scenes, lines, and a great soundtrack.
Christopher Walken is hilarious as a fun-loving genius that is utterly paranoid of the Soviet Empire.
Adam has been living in a fallout shelter for his entire life and suddenly is free and required to come above ground. Adam's naive and innocent character makes for many funny moments.
Eve: A "Rob Roy," I thought only hookers drank that stuff.
Adam: Well I know mom sure loves them.
The movie is full of great writing and memorable lines.
Adam: Mom, dad, we must hurry I'm being chased by a psychologist.
Crazy Friend: It's ok, it happens from time to time to everyone.
The movie really shows how our society has lost some of its innocents, however it also shows the beauty of a loving family, the true love between a man and a woman, and the importance of a fallout shelter.
I highly recommend this movie to everyone. I've seen it many times and it never gets old.
In My Humble Opinion
John G (Find Me)
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Summary: FUN AND CHARMING
Review: Hugh Wilson has directed a touching, funny and insightful comedy. Christoper Walken and Sissy Spacek portray a typical Californian suburban couple. It is 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile crisis. Walken has built an elaborate fallout shelter to sustain his family for 35 years in the event of a nuclear war. He and his wife mistakenly believe the war has begun when a plane crashes into their house. They lock the shelter and begin their 35 years underground. A little boy is born to them shortly thereafter, and he is raised in this insulated environment for the next 35 years.
The passage of time in the shelter details the raising of their son who matures as the full grown Brendan Fraser. When the time arrives for them emerge (the present day) they send Fraser out into the world they believe has been adversely affected by the nuclear holocaust. Fraser meets Alicia Silverstone, a young Valley Girl who works in a baseball card store. Of course, she takes Fraser under her wing and the expected "fish out of water" situations develop. The romantic ins and outs of the second half of the film are quite predictable, but Fraser and Silverstone are so irresistibly charming that they overcome this easily. In a fantastic scene where Fraser does a dynamite 40's dance with two lovelies in a club, Silverstone realizes her true feelings towards him. By the way, Fraser does all his own dancing.
This movie flows by effortlessly, with just enough social commentary and (slightly) odd-ball humor to keep you laughing. Brendon Fraser delivers another performance as a slightly fish-out-of-water type, and Alicia Silverstone does a good job with an older and slightly less clueless type. It's in the same vein as Pleasantville, but the ore isn't as rich. It's a good date movie.
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Summary: Good geewilicker's movie
Review: "Blast from the Past" is one of my hands-down favorite movies. It's charming, cute, sweet, and genuinely funny. Brendan Frasier and Alicia Silverstone are (surprisingly enough) perfectly matched as Adam and Eve (the movie contains only one joke about their names).
Basically, Adam has spent his entire life in a very elaborate bomb shelter. His parents had just sealed themselves in their bomb shelter after a "news scare," and when a plane crashed on top of the shelter, they assumed that a nuclear war had finally been launched. The doors wouldn't unlock for 35 years (because that's when the radiation would be done - or at least that's what Christopher Walken said). Fast forward 35 years, the doors unlock, and Adam gets the chance to see the world outside. When he gets lost and can't find his way back to the bomb shelter, he fortunately stumbles across Eve, who helps him adjust to life in the 90s, as well as purchase supplies to take back to his parents.
The DVD release is pretty minimal, unfortunately. There is a movie trailer and a pretty lame game called the Love-Meter or something similar. Pretty skimpy, although the visuals are quite nice. It's a great movie, although if you are buying the DVD version, buy it for the movie and not for any extras, because there aren't any. It does contain both a widescreen and fullscreen version, however, and the disc is NOT two-sided.
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Summary: BEAVER REDUX
Review: Brendan Fraser is remarkably good in this good-natured comedy about a young man born and raised in a fallout shelter. Fraser manages to parlay his rugged good looks and youthful exuberance into an intensely likeable hero named Adam. Once released into the modern world, Adam is gleefully joyful to watch. Alicia Silverstone is fine as his "Eve" who is both enamored and repelled by Fraser's childishly kind behavior. Dave Foley as her gay friend is marvelous as well. I also liked Joey Skolnik as the bartender who metamorphoses from a happy teenager to the self-proclaimed monk of a new religion. Kudos also to Nathan Killion (Firefly series) as Alicia's macho boyfriend who gets put in his place by Fraser. Also to the delightful dance scene where Fraser and two girls jitterbug to high heaven. But one cannot overlook the truly marvelous performances from Sissy Spacek and Christopher Walken as Fraser's paranoid parents. They are both brilliant, and one can see how these two won Oscars for previous performances. Director Hugh Wilson keeps it all together and I found myself smiling and chuckling all the way through. A delightful find!
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Summary: Very funny commentary about how nice people used to be
Review: This is a nice, funny movie, which along the way makes an interesting point. The plot is pretty straitforward, but this is a comedy not a drama, and it is plenty good enough to get us from joke to joke.Films lately seem to be saying that really nice guys come from some other decade, or even century (Kate & Leopold). This might say more about the audience (do we more readily accept niceness if it is ancient?) than the writers, but it is something the film makes you think about, when you're done laughing.
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