Blast from the Past

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Summary: THEFUNNIESTMOVIE
Review: I Mean they couldn't have picked a better person than Brendan Frazier, he just played the role so well. I laughed all through the movie. Especially when his father told him to stay away from the porno book store, because it was poisionous gas, and when brendan +ADAM+ Saw it he told everyone to run, it was great. I recomend this movie to anyone who needs some cheering up.

LISA

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Summary: Blast is a blast
Review: Adam has spent his entire life in a fallout shelter because his eccentric father believes the world has been blown up.At the age of 30 Adam finally ventures out into the world and it is hilarious!!

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Summary: Wonderful Movie!
Review: I loved this movie! I was a huge Brenden Fraser fan after seeing him in The Mummy and the Mummy Returns, so I rented this movie and fell in love with it. Brenden Fraser's character is almost the perfect guy, he can't sing, but he can definitely dance! The movie was done very well and has a lot of funny parts. Although, the first time I saw it I thought Alicia's character wasn't good enought for Brenden's I decided on the second viewing that they were perfect for eachother. A smashing movie!

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Summary: entertaining
Review: This is a great movie to watch on a rainy day when you don't want to have to think about anything. It is entertaining and will cheer you up. I finally bought the DVD because I got sick of seeing the edited versions on cable. It is definitely worth adding to your collection.

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Summary: Cute, entertaining....relatively predictable.
Review: This is an enjoyable film in a brain bubblegum kind of way; Brendan Fraser is charming, Alicia Silverstone is adorable, and the rest of the cast perform well, too.

Christopher Walken is a brilliant scientist who has created a huge, completely self-sustaining, unbelievably well-stocked nuclear bomb shelter beneath his family's home. During the Cuban missile crisis, he mistakenly believes that a nuclear bomb has been dropped, and locks his pregnant wife into this 35-year-time-locked bomb shelter. Brendan Fraser's character, Adam, is born there, and spends the first 34 years of his life underground, with only his parents for company. Predictably, after the 35 years are up, Adam emerges a bit odd, very polite, and exceedingly naive (but very well-schooled, thanks to his scientist father.) Adam learns about the modern world with help from Alicia Silverstone and David Foley, and searches for a wife (I'll give you three guesses as to whom he falls for, but who isn't interested in return.) Adam is not only lonely for female companionship, but he's lost as well; he can't remember how to get back to the the family's bomb shelter, which understandably causes him great distress. It's basically a happy movie, though, and appropriate for the family.

Even though the story isn't compelling or particularly well-written, it's charming and entertaining, anyhow. Fraser is adorable as always, and Silverstone turns in an enjoyable performance as well. This is a nice feel-good story for an evening or afternoon when you don't feel much like turning on your brain.

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Summary: I just love a good fairytale where everyone lives happily ..
Review: everafter!
What an adorable movie is Blast From the Past. The acting is fabulous and the story is just precious. Plus, the characters were all so nice (it was hard for me to root for Meg Ryan in Kate and Leopold because she was such a witch) that you immediately wanted Eve and Adam to get together. Since I am a child of the 60's, I do remember bomb shelters and bomb drills so the concept was not entirely unbelievable. This is one of the few FAMILY films that appeals to young and old. No violence and very little bad language. This movie makes me happy and it will you too!

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Summary: One of the best!
Review: This is one of the best romantic comedies I have ever watched. It is worth watching over and over. Brendan Frasier is adorable as a young man raised by parents that were stuck in the Fifties. A comical view of how "our world" would look to someone from the past.

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Summary: Terrible
Review: Blast from the Past is one of the worst films I've ver seen. I tried to watch is several time and it would not keep my attention it was so poor. Finally i forced myself to watch the whole film and was dumbfounded at how Hollywood would actually allow this film to be produced. Don't waste you time on this jumk!!

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Summary: Warm and Fuzzy...
Review: ...O.k., I know, that's a really stupid title, but I can't think of any other way to explain how this movie makes me feel. I am "slightly older" than the main characters, but really appreciate their on screen warmth. I love this movie because it makes me laugh without vulgarity and it's sexy without a hint of nudity or even suggested intimacy. I guess it's a Doris Day and Rock Hudson type of comedy. I bought the DVD to relive the "warm and fuzzy" feeling whenever I want!

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Summary: Works as romantic comedy
Review: On one level, Blast Form the Past could be a whole lot better. On another, it's just fine as it is. In other words, it may not live up to it's potential, but it's still entertaining.

The movie starts in 1962 and it quickly points out humorously that this was a very strange time. America had never been more affluent. New inventions were making life easier and easier. Life was good. Yet paranoia over our Communist enemies was never higher. Beneath the laughter and the good times lay a sense of impending atomic doom. Fallout shelters were all the rage.

We meet Calvin and Helen Webber [Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek], a popular Los Angeles couple. Calvin, who is a scientist, is particularly afraid of the Communist menace. He has somehow secretly constructed an underground shelter the size of a super Wal-Mart. One night a news broadcast convinces him that nuclear war may be at hand. He drags his thoroughly confused and very pregnant wife into the shelter. Moments later an out of control US fighter jet happens to crash and burn on top of their house. The explosion prompts Calvin to lock the shelter down. The couple is trapped there for over two decades.

Some of the best parts of Blast From the Past show Calvin and Helen, along with Adam, the son she bears, passing the years underground. Adam [Brendan Fraser] grows up to be a strapping, well educated and polite young man. Naturally he gives new meaning to the term sheltered!

Meanwhile, life goes on apace above their heads. The old neighborhood goes downhill. This transition is neatly portrayed by the evolution of a family business, which starts out as a soda shop and ends up a dive bar.

When the locks finally open the shelter, Calvin ventures up. It takes about five minutes for him to decided that the world is now a place inhabited by mutants. The experience causes him to collapse and take to his bed. Adam must then go up and replenish their supplies.

It is here that the movie could be a lot better. The idea of a man who has been frozen in time and then sets off into the present world has all sorts of comic possibilities. Blast Form the Past does not explore much of this. Instead, it concentrates on Adam's search for a wife, aided by the delightful and talented Alicia Silverstone, whose character is named [you guessed it] Eve. She is naturally distrustful of him because she thinks he is mad. His saying only that he is from out of town doesn't help.

My main problem here is that Adam, who has never seen any human beings other than his nutty parents, is too quick to adapt to present day Los Angeles. He is the perfect gentleman, raised in a much more repressed culture, yet he seems unaffected by Eve's revealing attire or by her penchant for cursing like a sailor. In their search for a wife, she takes him to a disco, where it turns out he's a fabulous dance. It's good to know that Brendan Fraser is so talented in this department, but it doesn't seem like something Adam could do.

What saves the movie is the affecting romance that develops between Adam and Eve. While it's obvious that this is going to occur, it is still a sweet and wholly innocent situation. While the film does not go in a more innovative direction, which would have made it a more satisfying experience, a la The Truman Show, it does wind up be a charming romantic comedy.