Why such a low score?


I just don't understand. Who would see this movie other than a P&T fan? How could a P&T fan not like the movie? It's brilliant! "Listen to the V's doc! The V's!"

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And now the J's! JACK be nimble, JACK be quick!

I love this picture- though I don't view it for their magic tricks.
It's a painfully funny, postmodern pastiche of popular culture and its
effects. As much as P and T make light of themselves and their "deaths",
they also tear into the media and the public in a reflexive and
refreshing way.

See it, people!

S

"my life in politics is over!"

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That 'life in politics' line is classic. It's subtle, but when I first heard it I collapsed in a fit of laughter. This movie is amazing on so many levels.

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cos some people just don't get it, so they think it's stupid. Most great films are misunderstood by the masses. Everyone I've shown it to has loved it! I gave it a ten, didn't seem to help, though. Oh well. I don't take IMDb ratings too seriously. Please visit the DVD release thread and help get it put out on DVD!!

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This movie was good! Not great, mind you, dragged a bit at the later middle half but the ending made it all worth it!

(SPOILER)

I can understand pissed-off audiences giving it low scores because it defied their expectations making all the people die senselessly in the end... Which is funny, because that's why I like the movie in the first place! It's like in the endings for Blackadder 1 and 2 where they kill off all the characters! Bloody marvelous!

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I've always enjoyed seeing Penn and Teller on the late night talk show circuit, but this movie was pretty poor. Both Penn and (especially) Teller are very likable in the movie and that lets this film get away with much more than it should. The jokes are drawn out and rarely funny with many flat disconnected moments. What the hell is Arthur Penn doing directing this?

"That is the whitest white part of the eye I have ever seen; do you floss?"

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I agree. The thing about dark humor I've noticed is that it has to be humorous. That point seems to have escaped Penn & Teller in this.

If they had cut it down by about a half hour, they might have had something. But the ending simply sucks. I agree with Penn's narration there, but it still comes off as annoying lecturing. And why do we have to be deprived of a fun ending, just to give other viewers a life lesson? That's movie-of-the-week crap.

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Because most people, myself included, thought it was terrible. When this came out Penn and Teller weren't as big as they are now. They were successful, but not household names. I only knew them from their appearances on S&L. I don't think that many people saw this movie back then, and those who of us who did were pretty much WTF? Now that Penn & Teller are legends, fans convince themselves that this is some sort of misunderstood masterpiece, but in 1989 and the early 90's, people recognized this for the complete misfire it is.

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