I can't believe it only scored a 6.2, it deserves at least a seven! One of my favourite comedies since I was a child. I could watch it over and over again.
shareI completely agree. Even by the skewed IMDb rating standards it should be 7/8. Well written, well acted, well directed, ahead of its time... What's not to love?
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This is one of my favorite black comedies as well. Comedies are really unfairly rated, many have ratings too low for what they deserve. I gave this a 10, I never get tired of this. Loved the performances of the 3 leads too, very uncharacteristic for the actors.
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This is one of my favourite comedies, I absolutely loved it at the cinema and have watched it many times since.
I recently found the script online and you know what, reading it made me realise how pedestrian the dialogue sounds. On the page it comes across as rather flat. Of course with the comic talents of the actors they had no problem with the material, plus the special effects remain mind-boggling.
Also, I know they had problems with test audiences, rewrote the ending and got completely rid of Tracey Ullman's character despite her featuring rather prominently in the trailer. Anyway, anyone else think that the last line of the movie could have been better? I remember watching it at the cinema agog at them exploding at the bottom of the stairs, it was so unexpected, then Goldie's head rolls up and there's this long pause where I was almost on the edge of my seat waiting for what she had to say. 'Do you remember where we parked the car?' didn't seem to be the best zinger they could have ended on.
Meh a 5-6 sounds about right, that's what I gave it. It's really not a very good movie. The comedy isn't funny and is telegraphed from a mile away literally every time, the pacing is terrible (it's seriously so long before we get to the main plot), the runtime is too long for this story, the characters are all pretty annoying (I didn't care what happened to any of them), and the effects are pretty dated.
Plus the whole final act is a friggin mess in every way. I lost interest in the whole thing around then and it just kind of keeps going even though it should have ended by then. Now that I think about it, the opening sucked too. Who thought 10 mins of ghoulish looking Streep doing an awful stage show was a good way to start the film?
The acting is good, the rest pretty pedestrian. It's a kids movie is pretty much the conclusion i've come to. I liked it as a kid but hate it now. The 9 yr old I watched it with last night liked it. You just said you liked it a child too. It all adds up now...
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Just curious, but did everybody on these message boards originally see this on network TV in the mid-nineties? I sense a strong nostalgia factor, I'm guessing among kids with parents who refused to pay for cable.
Anyway, it still holds up. Not a masterpiece mind you, but as an adult you can appreciate more of the jokes. I doubt a kid would get fully appreciate the stupidity of a Sweet Bird of Youth musical or Bel Air beauticians faking European accents. The whole shtick about a perfectionist plastic surgeon becoming an undertaker because he knows spray-paint is quicker and easier than trying to fix living people is hilarious.
One of the most brilliant comedies ever , don't care about users rating , the movie is brilliant .
shareI think it's offensive as well. Should be 1/10. It's full of old people humor where you see the "jokes" coming a mile away. What's worse is that the plot follows that same pattern. Terrible movie.
shareI agree with you. I really love this movie, and was thinking about watching it again. I became curious to see how other people rated it and was surprised by the low score as well.
shareIt also has a worse score on rotten tomatoes. I love this film! And it is so nostalgic.
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