Idle Hands

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Summary: Other than a few (maybe three) lukewarm laughs,
Review: this film is pretty much at the bottom of the stupid level. I must have picked up a version without the "gross-out" scenes everyone's talking about. Even the special effects are silly-looking. Bad news all the way around.

Rating:
Summary: IT'S KINDA SILLY, BUT IT'S ALSO FUNNY.
Review: "Idle Hands" starts as a horror film, but after the opening 10 minutes, it's very obvious that this movie is also a comedy. This film features some spoofs to classic horror films like "The Shining", "The Evil Dead" or "The Night Of The Living Dead". As a matter of fact, "Idle Hands" works better as a comedy than as a horror film.

The cast includes a lot of young actors like Devon Sawa (Anton), Seth Green (Mick), Elden Hensen (Pnub) and Jessica Alba (Molly). We already know that Seth Green is very funny and Jessica Alba is charming, but the surprise in this movie is Devon Sawa. He uses a lot of physical tricks and shakes his hand in a funny and convincing way.

The plot is kinda silly and obviously has holes here and there, but the dialogues are the main attraction here, the characters talk in double sense, with irony and black humor, and they make a lot of funny references to Anton's hand, Pnub's severed head or the bottle inserted into Mick's head.

This an amusing movie, it's good enough to entertain the audience for 90+ minutes, the MTV 2 soundtrack features tracks performed by bands like The Offspring, Rancid and Rob Zombie. "Idle Hands" is a movie for young people looking for laughs, it's much better than the average teenager slasher flick. And by the way, Jessica Alba looks gorgeous in "Idle Hands".

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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

Rating:
Summary: you've gotta be kidding me
Review: Let me be direct: 90% of the movie sucks. The acting and effects are decent. But the story, the direction, and well, pretty much everything else, are bad.

A few minutes into the movie, I thought it was a horror movie. Even then I was disappointed because it's not nearly horrifying enough. Then a third of the movie gone by, the plot became more and more ridiculous, and only then did I realize that the filmmakers wanted to make it a black comedy. But just that the movie has the style of a black comedy doesn't mean that the filmmakers would feel obliged to offer you any laughs, witty dialouges or dark humor. The movie has none of those.

The only reason I didn't give it a 1 star is some really really terrible movies deserve the lowest grade more than this one does. Not by a lot, though, I have to say.