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Summary: A Horror Filled with Comedy
Review: This was probably the funniest horror movie ever. (If you call it a horror movie) A guy's lazy hand gets possesed and begins to kill people. The movie was so funny
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Summary: Idle Hands You'll think twice before you get Lazy!!
Review: I think this movie rates up there with the great cult classics(ie.Evil Dead)This movie is well worth 5 stars and plus.The actors did an awesome job of making this gruesome comedy make you want to leap from your seat.Devon Sawa played his part just awesome,with help from Seth Green and his other pal actors.Making this movie well worth owning or seeing over and over again.
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Summary: a great fusion of comedy and horror
Review: idle hands is a movie that has it all. it is both a comedy and a horror at the same time. i must say that if you are a fan of either genre you should without a doubt check out idle hands.we need more movies like this, it is funny and will also gross you out.
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Summary: Underrated Black Comedy Horror Film.
Review: Anton Tobias (Devon Sawa) is One of the Laziest Teenagers around, which Anton loves Television, Junk-Food, Couch Potato Burn-Out. Anton finds himself in deep trouble, when he can't control his murderous impulses of his recently possessed hand. Once His Hand murdered His Parents (Fred Willard & Connie Fox) and His Friends (Seth Green & Elden Henson), He tries to get control of his rampaging devil appendage and now, it's ruininf his life. Now with the help of his friends returning back to life, they will to help Anton's Possessed Hand before not ruining his chances with his attractive neighbor (Jessica Alba) before an Hunter (Vivica A. Fox). Which the Hunter knows a thing or two about the Hand Possession to Kill anyone Who is Possessed.Directed by Rodman Flender (Leprechaun 2) made a hilarious, sick, twisted black comedy that is a shoulda-been Cult Classic nipped in the bud by its unfortunate proximily to the Columbine Tragedy. Now the film is a forgetten genuine film. Amusing Performances in the film, especially the talented lead role of Sewa. DVD has an sharp Pan & Scan (1.33:1) transfer and an clear-Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD has an great audio commentary track by the director and actors:Green & Henson. DVD has also the Original Ending with an Introduction by the Director with an Commentary Track by the Director, which you could watch the Original Ending without the Commentary and more decent extras. If you love Widescreen (Like I Do), try to get the Previous 1999 Transfer (Which also had the Widescreen/Pan & Scan transfers). Idle Hands is a tribute to another horror films like:Oliver Stone's The Hands, An American Werewolf in London, Re-Animator and Evil Dead 2:Dead by Dawn. If you are a Horror Fan, don't overlook this film. Good Music Score by Greame Revell (Bride of Chucky, The Crow, Freddy Vs. Jason). Grade:A-.
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Summary: best horror slash comedy movie ever
Review: This Movie is the greatest movie ever. The movie has good music funny and great acting jessica alba is really hot and is great the hand is preetty good too a must buy when you see it once you'll want to see it again a dar n good movie
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Summary: It's a PERFECT example of today's horror movies
Review: Which isn't a good thing. If you've seen any recent horror flicks within the past 10 years(Taking Lives, Wrong Turn, I Still Know What you Did Last Summer, Scream), then you know it's filled with the dummest imaginable good guys, cheesy plot and almost un-killable bad guys. And scenes that are supposed to thrill you and you just wonder when this is going to end. I almost fell asleep in a few of those movies, that's how lame, tiring and boring they are. Fortunately, for this film, it has Jessica Alba and Seth Green, who are two fantastic actors/actresses and are always delightful to see. Seth Green is hilarious as the main characters buddy, and Jessica Alba is more then sexy. However, the movie is beyond cheesy(like a hand jumping out a microwave through the window, smashing the glass in the mean time and landing in the bush, but it can't escape the microwave. Or, when the lady(played by Vivica A. Fox(Kill Bill)) is hit by a car, which is backing up, and then is sent 50 feet. Uh huh, that's realistic. Ends sarcasm.) Then there is tones of un-necessary gore and silly scenes like the guy losing his head. And how exactly did his buddies get back? They don't explain anything and assume everything is magical. It delivers the comedy pretty well, thanks to Seth Green for that, but is just too silly, far too cheesy and extremely lame(a hand that is possessed? Please, give me a break.)
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Summary: One Toke over the Line
Review: Pity poor slacker kid Anton Tobias (Devon Sawa): he hasn't seen his parents for days. He's out of milk. He's out of dog food. He has no girl, no car, no central motivating ambition. He's a total loser.
Worst of all, he's "dry": totally out of fuel for the bong. Forced to face the bleak prospect of a cheerless world not percolating to the hazy slacker cumulus of marijuana. Oh, and there's a brutal serial killer loose on the streets: a maniac who slaughters his victims, skins them alive, and---when the need arises---takes eyeballs and other chunky bits as souvenirs.
Life can be a real b*tch when you haven't yet turned 18.
Anyway, things quickly get rough, brutal, bloody, and totally out of hand (heh). Questions mount right along with the body count: Where are Anton's parents? Who is slaughtering his friends and neighbors? Is it wise to try score weed off a cop, even if y'all went to the same high school? Will Anton ever really muster up enough courage to ask the hottie of his dreams (the truly luscious Jessica Alba) to the prom? And it is possible---perhaps probable?---that his suddenly wanderlusting hand might have something to do with the wanton bloodletting and recent reign of terror?
"Idle Hands" is perfectly adorable on all counts and entertains scandalously: don't be alarmed by the 90210-ish packaging or the blurbs that make this thing out to be an innocent romantic comedy.
I was nearly scared away by all the chick-friendly marketing, but I persisted---and happily, I found this little romp in the cemetery to be sick, twisted, and totally freakish. Seth Green (Anton's slacker buddy Mick) gets to spend some up-close-and-personal cranial quality time with a beer bottle (local brew). Buddy Pnub (the hysterical and eminently blase Eldon Henson) loses his head and sees his social life improve---albeit with a little duct tape and a garden trowel. Dexter (lead singer of Offspring, who does a killer cover of the Ramones "I wanna be Sedated") gets scalped by an evil possessed right hand (played, admirably and with great dramatic restraint, by Christopher Hart, who plays hands and nothing else. I'm not kidding).
"Idle Hands", turned out by director Rodman Flender and a talented SWAT team of special effects mavericks, is simply all kinds of cool.
I mean, come on: you have Ramones cover songs. You have Hands Baked Alaska in the microwave. You have adorable little kitty cats nibbling away at eyeballs and licking up spilled blood. You have one of the uber-coollest opening sequences ("I'm Under the Bed"---oh BOO-ya!) in horror movie history, in which veteran character actor Fred Willard plays Dad. You have Vivica Fox brandishing a meat-cleaver and screaming "die, Host of Evil!". You get "Dawn of the Dead" and "Evil Dead" tributes---who am I kidding, "Idle Hands" is itself one long Evil Dead tribute. You get slacker friends consigned to walk the Earth forever as the soulless Living Dead---all because they hated the white light, the Enya Music, and the general sense that Heaven meant having to "walk to far".
Anyway, the horrific, ugly, malign, diabolic evil slaughtering hand is one of the staples of Grand Guignol horror, and Flender and Company hit the ball out of the park and work their material like champs. Hell ain't so bad if you have good (undead) friends and plenty of Cheesey-Poofs---give the boy a Hand.
JSG
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Summary: A fond favourite
Review: I love this movie, its just one of those movies you can watch over and again, and you will find something different to make you laugh at (in a good way though). If you havent seen this movie then see it now. Actually don't even see it jjust buy it.
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Summary: In Love With Leatherface
Review: Ok, I was looking for a stupid movie to watch with my best friend, and I came across "Idle Hands". I read some of the reviews on here to see if the movie was any good. Man, what's up with the people who don't like this movie? GO SEE IT NOW!
IT IS AWESOME! More than half of the people who said that the movie sucked complained that it was ripped off of other movies. Yeah, so? Newsflash: That's why it's funny! DUH! That's like someone seeing "Scary Movie" and then saying that it was dumb because it was ripped off of other movies. Don't people get the fact that this movie is making fun of other horror movies? Now that that is out of the way...
Ok, I'll admit it, I only picked up this movie because Seth Green is in it. He's one of my all time favorite actors, and he's SO HOT! This movie is about a group of stoner friends who are the laziest people you've ever seen. The laziest is Anton Tobias. Apparently, Idle Hands are the Devil's Playground, so Anton's "idle" right hand becomes possessed by the devil. Yeah, I know, it sounds pretty dumb. But, this movie is actually really funny. I guess the trick is not to take this movie too seriously. Anyway...
Anton cannot control his murderous right hand, so it begins to kill people. Including his parents and his two best friends Mick (Seth!) and Pneub. Thankfully, his friends come back from the dead because heaven was too far away and they didn't want to walk that far (haha!). Eventually, Anton chops off his hand with a butcher knife. Now, with the help of his two un-dead buddies and one crazy Devil Hand Killer (Vivaca A. Fox), Anton must catch his hand before it kills the love of his life, Molly (Jessica Alba).
I loved this movie! It's just so out there and crazy that you have to laugh. This movie isn't for everybody, especially for people that:
1. Are strict movie critics-This movie is a cross between "Dude, Where's My Car?" or any other stupid stoner movie and any movie that involves a killer hand so, yeah, obviously it's gonna have some plot holes!
2. Don't have a good sense of humor or don't find things that are kind of...umm..."sick" humorous-Yeah, I guess this is black comedy. You know, it's like oh! Let's watch this kid eat blood or let's heat this burrito up in that microwave that's full of blood or let's poke fun at the Texas Chainsaw Massacre! ("What? Did he just say he was Leatherface? That's not funny. People died, you know!") Seth acting like Leatherface was one of my favorite parts of the movie. So, it's all in fun.
3. Have really, really, really weak stomachs- Man, everyone's like, Oh! This movie is SO DISGUSTING! No, actually it's not! The gore is just stupid and laughable. Like, "stupid gore". If you're like me you'll say, Whoa? Did he just use a barbecue fork and duct tape to stick that guy's head back on? Is that cat eating an eyeball (which looks really fake)? And then you'll just laugh you head off. I love a movie with lots of blood and gore. I'm just weird like that I guess!!!!
4. Are young and impressionable kids- I personally wouldn't let a little kid watch this movie. You know, 13 and up. Depends on how mature they are. There is a lot of pot smoking and nutmeg/oregano smoking in this movie. There's language, but it's not like a kid wouldn't have heard that stuff before. Some "stupid gore". Nudity, which made me mad (I'll get to that next). But I can see some kid now, "Mom, so if I sit around all day and do nothing, my hand will be possessed by the devil? Cool!" Hahaha...
5. Are offended by nudity- Ok, this was the only part of the movie that made me mad. Why is it always women? I mean, was it really necessary for that girl to be topless in the car scene. I don't think we really needed that in this movie. The last thing we need to premote is the fact that a lot of girls are turning into *coughslutscough* because of what they see on tv and in movies. But why is it always women? There were plenty of hot guys in that movie! Man...
Ok, I've talked for long enough! GO SEE THIS FREAKING MOVIE! It rocks. Has some great one-liners ( "I'm not going through all that Tonya.") Have some fun. Watch a stupid movie...
"Look at me! Look at me! I'm Leatherface!"
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Summary: Great For Halloween Laughs
Review: First of all, this movie is not to be taken seriously. I saw some bad reviews and it is like some people tried too hard to get it. There is really nothing to get. It is just a good horror/comedy perfect for watching with some friends on Halloween. It is funny, gory, sexy and at many points in the film it is down right stupid but that is exactly what it is meant to be. The movie is meant to be just a Halloween laugh and I guarantee you will enjoy it if you just don't expect much to begin with. Try it....the price is right.
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