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Summary: Dick. What Comedy Should Be.
Review: This movie is a stirring example that they still do make em' like they used to. I love this movie because it is sophisticated and funny without using hardly any or any potty humor at all. I must be the only... male at my school who dosen't think Adam Sandler is the most hillarious thing since the invention of slapstick. This movie is definitally meant for those individuals who know Watergate or lived through it. That's the only way to catch the jokes. My mother told me all about Watergate so I knew them all. My favorite part was at the end where Nixon is leaving the White House in his helicopter and...well, I won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it. But trust me, it's great. Betsy and Arline are the biggest airheads I've ever seen, and it's so amazing that they were deep throat! This is the hidden gem of the summer season and is a must see!
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Summary: Sex, Drugs, and Roller Skates; must be the White House
Review: Dick is a great comedy for adults. Coming off as a kid's movie in previews, I was refreshed and surprised at the caliber of the comedy. Every character is comical genius, all the way down to the stoner, draft-dodging brother. I could not stop laughing at the mad camp adventures of these two clueless DC socialites. I almost broke a rib!I can't urge you enough to buy this movie. It is defiantly going to be a party house favorite.
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Summary: THE BEST COMEDY OF 1999 !
Review: This is definitley the most overlooked movie of the year. Not only is it funny but it's also extremely smart. The razor sharp oscar worthy script by Andrew Fleming and Sheryl Longin is matched by the excellent comic timing of Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams. If that's not enough the supporting cast is priceless. Will Ferrell and Bruce McCullough as Woodward and Bernstein is nothing short of inspired. Dan Hedya's performance as Dick is everything a supporting actor oscar is meant for. Dave Foley and Jim Brewer have small but funny characters worthy of their talent. Don't remember the name of the actor who played Dunst's stoned brother but he's also very funny. The soundtrack accompanies the film perfectly. Don't be fooled by the advertising. This isn't just another formula "teeny booper" movie, but rather a smart and brillant satire. I think this DVD will give this overlooked gem the second life it deserves.
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Summary: Modern satire at its finest!
Review: This film is brilliant. Probably the best sleeper comedy of 1999 and the past several years. My partner and I saw it based on good word-mouth and our fascination with dumb teenage girls, but this film completely exceeded our expectations. Mix equal part 'Kids in the Hall' with 'Clueless', and you get the gist. Williams ('Arlene') and Dunst ('Betsy') were such greatly gifted comedians with their timing that we based our Halloween costumes on them.
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Summary: "I'm feeling lightheaded. These are scrumptious."
Review: "Dick" is a historically inaccurate comedy about two giggly highschool girls, Kirsten Dunst (Betsy) and Michelle Williams (Arlene) who get involved in Nixon's Watergate coverup and ultimate resignation. "Yams have more going on upstairs than those two girls." If you love the memory of President Nixon, you might not like this movie as he is portrayed in a negative comical light. If you don't know much about the Watergate coverup, much of the movie won't make sense. If this is the case, you should watch "All The President's Men" first. In a very small nutshell, the girls surprise G. Gordon Liddy in a stairwell as he is talking the the Watergate "Plumbers". Later on a field trip to the White House, they see him again with a paper stuck to his shoe - the CREEP list with dollar amounts next to names - that they keep as a souvenir. Haldeman (Dave Foley) questions them, then the girls play with Checkers, Nixon's dog. Nixon (Dan Hedaya) offers to make them official dog walkers. Later, they decide to bake some "Hello Dolly" cookies for Nixon, and unknowingly use a special ingredient that Betsy's druggy brother had mixed in with the walnuts. In the back story, we find out that Arlene misses her father who died in an accident before she was born. The girls return to White House without an invitation and get hassled but finally get in with the help of Henry Kissinger (Saul Rubinek). They see Nixon, and give him cookies, and Nixon tapes their conversation. They take Checkers for a walk, and when the return, see document shredding and money. In school, Betsy and Arlen give speeches about White House visit. Arlene gets dreamy about the president and replaces Bobby Sherman's posters with Nixon on her bedroom wall. Back at the White House, Nixon meets with Brezhnev, and Nixon shares cookies with him. They end up singing "Hello Dolly". Arlene faling in love with Nixon. In a fantasy sequense, Nixon rides a horse on the beach, then "twirls" with Arlene, and they look at a White House sand castle. Arlene starts Nixon scrap book. The girls recognize Liddy on the TV news. Alene calls Nixon while he is watching "Love, American Style" when Arlene calls him to ask about "that Wategate thing". The girls return to walk Checkers, and discover the taping system in secretary Rosemary Woods desk. They tape a message for Nixon. Arlene confesses her love for him. They hear some tape of Nixon cursing, and yelling at Checkers, and they are disappointed. They confront Nixon about Watergate. Arlene removes his pictures and burns them. They talk to reporters Woodward and Bernstein on the phone then agree to meet them in person. Subsequently, they are harassed by a "Plumbers" van. They go to Haldeman's house to get tapes Haldeman took home. Arlene overhears an incriminating phone call between Haldeman and the White House. They steal a tape and give the transcript to Woodward and Bernstein. Nixon is drinking and listening to his tapes, and hears Arlene's singing "I Honestly Love You" and love confession. Nixon erases 18-1/2 minutes of the tape. Girls see Nixon on department store TVs as he resigns. They hold up a nasty banner and wave goodbye to him as he helicopters away. He gives them the finger. The DVD has a commentary by director/co-writers, a short "Making of" documentary, one deleted scene (an Arlene- and-Nixon beach nightmare), a blooper reel that is really funny, trailers to this and 2 other movies, text talent files, and an isolated score/soundtrack of really groovy 70's songs. If the cultural references (Kung Fu and Alka-Seltzer commercials, etc) don't get you, maybe the day-glow clothes will.
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Summary: Absolutely brilliant
Review: Maybe it was just that this movie has a pretty small niche audience: people who know their political history, have seen "All The Presidents Men" and "Nixon," and have a wicked sense of humor. Or maybe it was the fact that it was advertised as a teen movie, because of its stars: but how many 14 year old girls do you know that meet the above requirements? Frankly, they're not actually requirements. I saw both of the other movies long after I had seen Dick many times, and we sort of ran out of time in high school history class in the 50's so we did 1955-1997 in about three days. So it's not REQUIRED that you be a scholar of the Nixon era to enjoy this movie: but it is worth it to see at least "All the President's Men" first. This is a brilliant, brilliant movie. Hugely underrated. The movie takes the events of Watergate and structures them around two dim-witted teenage girls ("I've known yams with more going on upstairs, sir") who accidentaly stuble onto the Watergate burglars as they sneak down to the parking garage (putting duct tape over the self-locking door latch so that they can get back in without waking up Arlene's mom) to mail a letter to "win a date with Bobby Sherman." Through the course of the movie, all of the Watergate mysteries are explained. Whatever happened to Checkers, whatever happened to the 18 1/2 minutes, whatever happened to stop nuclear war with the Russians, why Nixon was so paranoid, and why the famous source called himself "Deep Throat." It's all here. Well written and acted, Dan Heydaya is maybe the best Nixon ever to hit the screen. "You smell like cabbage!"
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Summary: Quite Funny
Review: I highly enjoyed this movie. Okay, more than that. When I first saw it at the age of eleven, it taught me everything I know about Watergate in a funny and memorable fashion. This is the story of how two self-proclaimed "stupid teenagers" named Betsy and Arlene brought down the corrupt Nixon administration. Arlene lives in the Watergate complex and she and her best friend Betsy are there the night of the break-in. On a class trip to the White House, they get lost in the West Wing, pick up the CREEP list thinking it's toilet paper and eventually become Nixon's dog-walkers and secret youth advisors. When they accidentally stumble across one of his tapes, however, they begin to uncover the truth. They give the story to rival reporters Woodward and Bernstein under the alias Deepthroat (the name of a porn movie Betsy's drug-addicted older brother saw). The movie is filled with funny and clever historical inside jokes (my personal favorite is having government agents follow Betsy and Arlene in a van labled "The Plumbers"). Dick will teach anyone a lot about Watergate along with having hilarious actors and an amazing soundtrack.
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Summary: funny
Review: I really like this movie, although I don't count it as one of my top, top favorites. But it is really funny and worth seeing. I don't really know or care anything about Nixon's presidency. But I saw this movie because I love the retro 70s music and clothes and atmosphere, and that is what I love about this film. The songs are great, the clothes are sooo horribly awesome, and the characters are so well done. Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams portrayed two dimwit "stupid teenage girls" with perfection. Read everyone else's reviews, they already said it all!
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Summary: Hilarious Sleeper Comedy
Review: It isn't much of a surprise that "Dick" did not garner much of an audience when it was released in 1999 on the 25th anniversary of Nixon's resignation. A few years earlier Oliver Stone's unintentionally comic "Nixon" laid a box office egg as well. This hilarious film deserves to be seen because it is just a laugh-out-loud riot. The plot involves two oblivious teenage girls (Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams) who form a friendship with Nixon and are employed as his dogwalkers. All goes swimmingly until they unearth tapes in the Oval Office that reveal that Nixon is mean to his dog. The gloves come off at this point. No man who can be mean to his dog deserves to hold the highest office in the land. Dunst and Williams are bubblingly hilarious as the girls. Dan Hedaya does a dead-on hilarious rendering of Nixon. Alot of amusing cameos including Will Ferrell, Harry Shearer, and Dave Foley. Great period soundtrack, too. I saw this film originally at a repertory house on a double-bill with "All the President's Men". Guess which film left a more lasting impression?
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Summary: So right in every way
Review: If you aren't already a fan of Michelle Williams or Kirsten Dunst this will make you a fan.
As for a review of this, the Amazon review says it all, but not really enough.
It's a comedy, it's a love story, it's a documentary. It's a parody, it has drama, suspense. The only thing missing is if you haven't seen it yet.
rated 5 out of 5 is all I can give it. But it's definitely better than that.
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