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Stealing Harvard

Stealing Harvard

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Critics Just Don't Get It.
Review: People, this is one funny movie. I don't know why critics would say that Jason Lee was wasting his talent. When you see a movie like this, you know what your getting into. Big, fat, stupid, fun! There were plenty of laughs and just the right amount of dark comedy for everyone. I watched this with my wife and she is not a big fan of Bruce McCulloch (director). Even she admitted that it was a great time. Just get it and enjoy it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN
Review: Some of these people do not know what they are talking about. Stealing Harvard is a great movie. There were so many funny parts. Especially when Tom Green heats up a brick of cheese.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wow!
Review: Stealing Harvard is a fantastically funny film! I'd recommend it to anyone who has a sense of humour! The entire cast were amazing - there was not a single one of them who didn't make me laugh at some point! It has a great story behind it too!

Everyone should watch it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: not quite road trip, not quite mallrats
Review: Stealing Harvard was funny and different. Performances from Tom Green and Jason Lee were good, and they made some good laughs together, but neither one lived up to past performances, like Road Trip and Mallrats. Maybe not worth the movie theater prices, but definitely worth the [value] theaters or renting.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Tom Green was occasionally funny.
Review: Summary:
John Plummer (Jason Lee (I)) lives a kind of doldrum life as an assistant manager of a home medical supply store. He's dating the owner's (Dennis Farina) daughter, Elaine Warner (Leslie Mann), and they are planning on getting married. They had decided to wait to get married until they had saved up enough to put a down payment on a house. The movie begins with them realizing that they have finally saved up enough money. There's just one problem, John promised his niece, Noreen Plummer (Tammy Blanchard), that if she got in to college he would pay for it. Well, she got into Harvard and now she needs the money - the exact amount that he had saved up. John is stuck with a decision but can't take away his wife's dreams, so he turns to an old friend to help him come up with the money, Walter 'Duff' Duffy (Tom Green (III)). Duff comes up with several illegal plans for getting the money, each getting them further into trouble with the law. Eventually all of the plans catch up to them and they have to deal with the chaos they have been causing and they still don't have the money.

My Comments:
The movie was occasionally funny, but only occasionally. The plot was pretty good and the story wasn't terrible, but it wasn't really memorable. The major problem with the movie was that it was supposed to be funny, but it wasn't. Jason Lee tries, and some of the situations are a bit humorous - specifically the repeated instances of the main characters having to dress up as women for the Honorable Emmett Cook (Richard Jenkins (I)) - but the best it does is get an occasional chuckle.

This movie seemed to receive a lot of hype, and, frankly, I thought it was going to be more about actually going to college. But college and college life really have very little to do with it.

Overall, this movie didn't live up to the hype it received. It may be kind of funny if you're really bored and need something to do on a Friday night with friends. Otherwise, not worth your time.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Dumb Humor For The Smart Mind. Wait A Second...
Review: The silly, look at me acting of certain actors in this movie (cough, cough, Tom Green, cough, cough) can cover the fact that this movie is better than your average stupid movie. A comedy feauturing a smartass sense of humor mixed with a tint of MTV, with a little bit of Adult Swim (cartoon network after eleven for all you kids out there) sounds great doesnt it? I know, it doesn't sound too good to me either. But despite the stupidity of some actors (cough, cough, Tom Green, cough, cough), the rest of the actors pull off the role of dumb and strangely realistic characters.
This isnt a movie that makes in front of cultures or politics. Oh no, this is a movie that pulls it's pants down and moons our current generation, showing us all how stupid we can really be. Desperate lawyers, dumb neighbors, a single minded mother, a suspicous stepfather, a trailer trash sister, a independant (maybe too much so) minded girlfriend. Yup, this movie makes us laugh at our own soceity. It tries to be more than that by throwing in some hub bub about destiny towards the end, but it's nothing more. Still, it's a pleasant hour and a half, just one that you'd like to rent on a riany day.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Remarkably unfunny
Review: There's a reason only 8% of critics liked "Stealing Harvard" [...].Not only is it unfunny; it's also crude, boring, and downright stupid. I know I know it's a comedy and therefore it's entitled to be brainless and gross, right? Not so!

John (Jason Lee) turns to a life of crime to pay for his niece's tuition for her first year at, you guessed it, Harvard. Elaine (Leslie Mann), John's girlfriend, also wants him to pay $30,000 for the down payment on a house that she desperately wants. The truly horrid Tom Green, for whom this whole mess of a movie seems to have been written for, plays John's dim-witted buddy, Walter P. 'Duff' Duffy. Walter's lone purpose in life seems to be messing up John's own life. And if the pitiful plot isn't enough of a deterrent for you, let me just alert you to what you have to look forward to.

A rich guy (Dennis Farina) has an unfortunate fetish that involves forcing men to dress up as his dead wife and then taking their picture. We even get to see the photo album of his victims. Yep, it's true. The worst thing is, the filmmakers seem to pride themselves in this pathetic little bit of "comic genius" and show it over and over again throughout the film until even the teenage guys in the theater stopped laughing.

Don't even get me started on Tom Green. The man has no talent and what he does is not comedy. It's stupidity. Jerry Seinfeld is funny. Bill Cosby is funny. Sorry folks, Tom Green is not.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: VERY FUNNY
Review: This is a very funny movie. If your a fan of Tom Green you'll like this movie. It's full of laughs from beginning to end. The name of Tom Green's hedge cutting company is cool. Its called "Landscape Escape". I recommend this movie if your a fan of comedy. You won't stop laughing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: VERY FUNNY
Review: This is a very funny movie. If your a fan of Tom Green you'll like this movie. It's full of laughs from beginning to end. The name of Tom Green's hedge cutting company is cool. Its called "Landscape Escape". I recommend this movie if your a fan of comedy. You won't stop laughing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Every second is hilarious!
Review: This is one of my favorite movies ever! I know most people found it really dumb, but I find it hilarious! Just rent it and if you dont like it, so be it, but it is worth buying. Definitley in my opinion. Jason Lee and Tom Green make the perfect team. The movie is about a man who made a promise to his niece years ago that he would pay for all the money for her to go to Harvard if she gets in. The niece has a video tape of him promising. And then he realizes that he has to keep his promise. So he recruits his friend Duff (Tom Green) to help him get the money any way possible while still maintaning a relationship with his Fiance Elaine which he promised her that the 30,000 dollars would be for their new home. And I love every second of the movie. Tom Green makes me laugh every minute of it. Great movie!


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