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Summary: Boring
Review: I was disappointed by this movie. I had expected a comedy, but found a rather unmotivated mixture of stories, badly put to screen. Flat characters interacting in an uninspiring manner.
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Summary: This Movie Stunk.......
Review: As a 38 year old male this movie offended me greatly. It was made by MTV films which says alot about the politically motivated aspects of what happens when a Music Video cable channel decides to starts making movies which are politically based and totally one sided. Its hard to believe that Matthew Broderick went from Ferris Bueller ( A Hero ) to a conniving,evil,audulterer (Mr McAllister). Another thing that hurt (following MTV'S political agenda) was that it glorified Homosexuality and made men look stupid,evil, and immature. ...
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Summary: I'd vote for Election!
Review: I knew from the moment I bought it that Election would be good. Reese Witherspoon plays the perfect and frankly annoying student up for election with class. Matthew Broderick plays the teacher who is an all round good guy until he realises that having that girl for president would ruin his life and the school's. So he persuades another student to stand for election. Enter Chris Klein who along side Witherspoon and Broderick is a great combination of actors. The comedic elements are constant and the story is well written. This makes Election a really great addition to 90's comedy.
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Summary: On my Top Ten List for 1998
Review: Election is just about wittiest, wickedest comedy concerning teenagers ever made. It is clever in a way that makes it appealing to far more than just the teen market. In fact, older viewers will perhaps be the most amused by it, because the central theme of Election has a timeless quality to it. Matthew Broderick is Jim McAllister, who has taught at the local high school for a dozen years. McAllister is the type of likable person who finds a comfortable niche is life and is content to spend the rest of his life doing basically the same thing. He's been voted teacher of the year three or four times. He's even married to his high school sweetie. Ambitious people are a turn off to him. Overly ambitious types actually intimidate him, even if their lust for power does not directly affect him. McAllister is a character we've all met. Tracy Flick [Reese Witherspoon] is as ambitious as they come. She's been groomed by her protective mother, who writes to people like Oprah Winfrey and Janet Reno asking them for advice for her daughter. Now in her senior year, Tracy has decided to run for president of the student body. She is unopposed. McAllister cannot stand Tracy. He finds her quite dangerous. So he talks a popular football player, who has been sidelined with a broken leg, to run for the office. Paul [Chris Klein] is the classic nice guy, which means that, in modern politics, he is clueless about what is in store for him. Meanwhile, out of spite, his own sister, Tammy [Jessica Campbell], decides to enter the race, too. All hell is about to break loose. Matthew Broderick is excellent, but it is the young Reese Witherspoon, a star in the making, who steals the picture. Her portrayal of Tracy is one of this year's most insightful. Tracy is all perky and smiley, but the moment she is alone, her face turns into a scowl. She is basically lonely, but like all power-hungry people, she has no idea why she has no real friends. Witherspoon gives Tracy a clipped, no nonsense voice. She sounds like every pushy, self-centered person you ever met, and she brings a knowing, if somewhat pained, smile to your face whenever she talks. The movie has all sorts of interesting characters and interesting plot turns. Like in all great black comedies, being a good person doesn't mean one always wins in the end. Unlike in real politics, there's never a dull moment in this Election. While it appears to take place in a somewhat surreal world, its truths are exceptionally real. It's the kind of movie that sticks with you, the kind that will be just as fresh twenty years from now.
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Summary: A Great Movie
Review: Election is one of those great movies out there that people never see. Reese Witherspoon is one of the greatest young stars to emerge in film and she proves her staying power with this wonderfully written and directed movie. She plays a ruthless motivated teenager who wants to be elected student body president, who stops at nothing to see that she wins. Matthew Broderick plays a teacher who knows her antics and stops at nothing to see that she doesn't win. The movie is intelligent and witty. Not what you'd expect to see in a "teenager" film. I highly recommend buying this movie. I bought it sight unseen and am thrilled.
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Summary: oozing with sensual feelings and pure ambition
Review: I was one of those people who waited until this movie came out on video and onto tv stations before I even bothered to watch it. It came out on tv one night and I was flipping through and decided to watch it. I loved it so much, I watched the encore presentation. Tracey(Witherspoon) is a very perky, highly overachiver who has had things happen in her life that most teens don't have happen. McAllister(Broderick) is a teacher with a wife and they want to have children. He is friends with a teacher who Tracy gets sexually involved with and Tracy's senior year she decides to run for student body president and McAllister can't stand the thought. He encourages a jock(Chris Klein) to run against her and a final and third running mate joins them(see the movie). McAllister runs into a lot of jams along the way of the election and finds himself in a lust after his neighbor. Who wins? Well, that's definitely a part you must see the movie for. This is definitely the best movie for at that time for Reese and Mathew both.
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Summary: The Election of '99 (or '00)...
Review: Oh, what can I say about this smart, scathing satire that had me laughing just as hard on the fourth viewing as the first? Like any great story, it's about more than it pretends. That it happens to be a comedy is beside the point; this is terrific filmmaking, period. If you have any doubts, listen to director Alexander Payne's commentary track. This film was made by someone who had really thought the material through, and who actually bothered to apply some inventive cinematic design to many of its sequences. That's more than can be said for most comedies, and certainly more than can be said for any recent teen flick. Though made well before these things happened, the plot of Election - which concerns the election of a student government president in an Omaha high school - uncomfortably echoes the 2000 Presidential Election mess here in the United States, with loud accusations of class envy, bad sportsmanship, and vote-fixing: Over-achieving student Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is like Al Gore - a seeming "natural" for the post, whose whole life has been directed to the goal of winning elected office. Paul Metzler (Chris Klein), the rich, dumb, but good-hearted kid who opposes her could easily be...well, you get the idea. There is even a "spoiler" candidate (Metzler's sister Tammy, played by Jessica Campbell) who could easily represent every Libertarian or Independent who ever threw a wrench in the works by dividing a traditional voter base, thereby allowing the opposition to win. But the central character of Election is Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), a teacher who tries to manipulate the outcome, he says (and perhaps really believes), for the Common Good. The Dumb Guy is his puppet, Tracy Flick his victim - although really, no one in this film escapes playing both roles at one time or another. Not even McAllister himself, who gets a satisfying, hilariously appropriate comeuppance. Election is also one of those rare films that manages to embrace its characters at the same time it reveals their pettiness and absurdity. Unlike Dr. Strangelove (perhaps the greatest political satire of all), it actually likes the people it rather mercilessly destroys with its infernal plot twists. Perhaps it's because the characters really work to destroy themselves. The movie is just content to let them do it, knowing that, in the end, everyone will survive and just continue to live in their own comfortable little fantasy world. The performances are all perfect; Payne's direction and screen play (co-written with Jim Taylor from a novel by Tom Perrotta) are exceptional. Though certainly unintended, Election provides us with a glimpse of the future. In time, all historical events attain a kind of distance, like memories of high school for those of us in our 30's. The 2000 election will someday occupy a place like that, too. And that's when it will start to seem as funny, sad, and ultimately inevitable as the plot of this wonderful film.
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Summary: The ethical struggles of a falable human being.
Review: It looks like some of the reviewers have been offended by the content of this film. I understand that, and if you are easily offended you should probably avoid it. Having said that, I found it one of the funniest and most human movies I have seen in along time. Mathew Broderick's character believes himself to be a good a morale person and he is just as aghast at his behavior as the people this movie offends. That's why its funny.
I just changed my mind; the people who will be offended by this movie are the ones who most need to watch it. They may learn that their high morales are possible primarily because they have never really been tested. And hopefully they will learn to forgive those who've done things they never imagined they would, can't believe they did, and don't understand why they did. That describes most of us at some time in our lives. Lets try to be gentle with ourselves and laugh a little. We all have our dark sides.
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Summary: A Fantastic Film!
Review: I loved this movie so much, I wish I could see the unedited version. Tracy Flick's plight was the only thing that ever made me cry in a movie.
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Summary: hillariously funny...
Review: I enjoyed this movie and found myself laughing throughout the whole thing. There were a couple parts that weren't as exciting as others but I would still highly recommend this. The whole storyline was great!!
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