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Summary: My all-time favorite funny movie
Review: We've watched this movie every New Year's Eve for many years now, and our daily conversation is peppered with quotes from it ("now, don't you 'honey' me!", "I'll be out directly", "think about it H.I." [best said when holding a drumstick to your forehead] get used a lot). Unlike most comedies, "Raising Arizona" maintains it's comedic momentum throughout the entire film--right down to the last line. I suggest, too, that people that have been put off by other Coen Brothers films (as I was with "Fargo"), should give this one a chance.
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Summary: A clever laugh riot
Review: Hysterical oddball comedy concerning irredeemable convenience store thief Cage and his former law-enforcement wife Hunter (they met when she took his mug shots!), who find that they cannot have children (Cage's musings on the matter are an absolute scream). Their solution: Steal one of the town's celebrated quintuplets and raise it as their own...which they do...prompting the child's parents to hire a bounty hunter (the perfectly cast Randall "Tex" Cobb, aptly described as a "warthog from hell") to retrieve him. Chaos ensues! One of the looniest comedies this side of Wile E. Coyote, "Raising Arizona" combines clever dialogue with slapstick to produce a memorable gem. Cage is woderfully kooky as the hopeless felon, the right mix of rube, redneck, and good intentions (which always go astray). Hunter's low-key, nuanced performance is the ideal balance to Cage's; their argument over the personality of their pilfered child is a hoot: she sees a sweet boy, he (of course)sees a little outlaw. Most of the humor is tied to characterization and the Coen's clever dialogue (one of the best lines: a farmer's statement to John Goodman's character during a hold-up). The film's eccentric cinematography (the chase segments in particular) is by future "Addams Family/Men in Black" director Barry Sonnenfeld; combine it with Joel Coen's surefooted, intuitive direction and we have a movie full of wild angles and dizzying chases. A riot of a film; fans of the Coen's "O Brother Where Art Thou" will likely enjoy it.
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Summary: Son, You Gotta Panty On Your Head...
Review: This could very well be the finest comedy every made. It is pure genious through and through. I am not exaggerating when I say that I have seen this movie over 100 times, and every time I notice something new (I swear to God). It is certainly the Cohen brothers finest film, although "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" is a pretty decent, though distant, second. For those of you who are Raising Arizona afficianados, pay attention to the lyrics of the lullabye Ed sings to Nathan Jr. the next time you see it.
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Summary: HI-LARIOUS
Review: You have to watch this film several times to catch everything - such as when Hi's two "on the lam" friends are robbing that truck stop and buy some balloons: "Do these come in funny shapes?" and the guy behind the counter says, "No, unless round is funny."
Priceless, 15 years later.
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Summary: HUMOR AT A GENIOUS LEVEL
Review: I've seen this movie so many times, and still I laugh hysterically every time. John Goodman is comic genious in this one, Nicolas Cage plays white trash even better than he plays a drunk, and that biker guy, well, its a combo that gives competition to the reddest of red necks. But, what makes this movie so great is the music. The sounds of the banjo and the yodilelee (sp?) are just perfect. I own Raising Arizona, and yet every time it is on Comedy Central, I find myself watching it anyhow. Just hilarious.
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Summary: Nathan Arizona
Review: The Funniest dialog in the movie:
Hi:I think I got the best one. Here's the instruction manual.
Ed:All babies are beautiful.
Hi:Ya, but, this ones pretty damn good. The diaper chase scene is the funniest 10 minutes of film ever. Add to that the scene where Hi is trying to steal the baby but comes back empty-handed. "They...they were all over me. It was terrible!". I think that Raising Arizona is the funniest film ever produced. "Sir..sir. You may want to wash your hands at this point."
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Summary: Very fun to watch
Review: Raising Arizona is fun to watch. What makes this movie good is that the humor is strange humor. The strange music and strange acting make it a strange crazy movie. That is what it is all about. Nicholas Cage known in this movie as (HI) is crazy with his awkwardness and crazy hair. The main laughter though may come from John Goodman and his friend. This is the classic role of John Goodman in my book. All I can say is alot of wild crazy things will happen in this film.
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Summary: More n' you can handle.
Review: This movie is too funny for words--it's worth watching just for Nicholas Cage's silly haircut and the chase scenes. Lots of good lines in this movie and certainly an interesting soundtrack. 'ev'rybody freeze, ev'rybody down on the ground!!' Haha just watch it...
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Summary: The True Genius Comedy
Review: The first time I watched Raising Arizone, I remember being a lot confused and little impressed by the humor. I was 16, and the movie just didn't work for me. I ended up watching a year later. As a 17 year old, I laughed more. Within the next five years, I watched it 15-20 more times. It actually became funnier with each viewing. I can only reference Dr. Strangelove and Monty Python's Holy Grail and Life of Brian as similarly comedic. Nearly every line has the stylished flourish to be quoted verbatim, out of context, and still retain its humor. Don't like Raising Arizona? Watch it again, again, again... the true genius of this film presents itself to those who are willing to put in the effort.
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Summary: greatest hillbilly hick flick ever man
Review: The second in the Coen's hillbilly trilogy, Raising Arizona is vintage Coen before there was such a thing as vintage Coen. This film has influenced both subtle and outrageous comedies, and everything in between. Watch this film once to relax and twice to learn, only three times to charm the pants off of any girl named edwina. With a capitol E.
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