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- DirectorHoward HawksStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantCharles RugglesWhile trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.One of the best comedies of its time
"Bringing Up Baby (1938) is one of versatile director Howard Hawks' greatest screwball comedies and often considered the definitive screwball film. It is also one of the funniest, wackiest and most inspired films of all time with its characteristic breathless pace, zany antics and pratfalls, absurd situations and misunderstandings, perfect sense of comic timing, completely screwball cast, series of lunatic and hare-brained misadventures, disasters, light-hearted surprises and romantic comedy. The non-stop, harum-scarum farce skewered many institutions, including psychiatry, the sterile field of science, the police, and high-society upper classes." - Tim Dirks (Filmisite's 100 Greatest Films)
9/10 - DirectorHoward HawksStarsCary GrantRosalind RussellRalph BellamyA newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.War of the words
Usually I have issues with IMDb short summaries, but this time they nailed it. "A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying." "His Girl Friday" is a screwball comedy, and one of the most hilarious I have ever seen. The screenplay is excellent and Howard Hawks has done a great job directing it. Cary Grant and beautiful Rosalind Russell have sparkling chemistry and the way they perform jokes is so natural and believable. But to fully enjoy this movie you have to be fluent in English. Watching it with subtitles simply won't do it, because the essence of this film's greatness is in its frantic pace. Plot twists are good, but the breathtakingly fast overlapping dialogue, simultaneous conversations and rapid-fire delivery of word gags, sarcastic insults, sexual innuendos and in-jokes are what ensured this movie's high place in the film history.
8,5/10 - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCary GrantKatharine HepburnJames StewartWhen a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.Sophisticated romantic screwball
Part screwball, part romantic comedy from the forties. Love triangle starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart. It simply can not fail. One of my all-time favorites.
9/10 - DirectorPreston SturgesStarsBarbara StanwyckHenry FondaCharles CoburnA trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.Deception
The snake in this movie isn't a snake at all. It's just a legless lizard. Otherwise, I have no objections. Preston Sturges assembled a great cast and turned this well-written story into a true masterpiece of romantic comedy. Intelligent, witty and heartwarming.
9/10 - DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.Very good but not excellent... or maybe it just isn't my cup of tea...
7,5/10 - DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsAdam WestBurt WardLee MeriwetherThe Dynamic Duo faces four supervillains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.The most comic-bookish movie I have ever seen
Warning: Spoilers
When I sat to watch this movie I did not have any information about it and I expected nothing at all. But I received a lot. This might not be a movie of excellent quality, but it surely is the most comic- bookish movie I have ever seen. It's not so much a movie as it is comic-book brought to life on a big screen. Comic fans who take comics too seriously probably hate this adaptation, but for the rest of us, who simply love fun comics provide, this is probably the best Batman movie ever. It is modernized and parodied version of old Batman series from the '40s. The dark component is kicked out and what is left is a hilarious and entertaining action full of wacky lines.
Joker, Penguin, Riddler, and Cat-woman join together to blackmail the whole world. Clash of their super-villain egos, while they are trying to cooperate, is hilarious. Their looks, speech, and behavior are totally comic-bookish, and Lee Meriwether is incredibly sexy in Cat-woman costume. All four, together with Batman and Robin and whole storyline, exaggerate to the point of going too far, but manage to balance at the very edge of good taste and successfully avoid to tumble into the abyss of complete nonsense. Add to that sharks filled with dynamite, countless gadgets, all labeled with big banners "bat-this" and "bat-that", banalized chases, and bombs that take forever to explode, and you'll get the unforgettable comic-book comedy that leaves no one indifferent. This is one of those movies you can either love or hate. There's nothing in between. Oh, yes, I must not forget "ouch", "splash", "boom" and similar strip clouds that pop up in all sizes and colors all around the screen during action scenes.
I haven't seen all Batman movies just yet, but I did see at least one from every series, so I can say with some certainty that this one is my favorite Batman.
9/10- Could be any one of them, but which one?
- Pretty fishy what happened to me on that ladder. Where there's a fish, there could be Penguin.
- Wait! It happened at the sea. See? C for Cat-woman.
- Yet, that exploding shark was pulling my leg. The Joker?
- It all adds up to a sinister riddle. Riddle-er... Riddler?
- DirectorSlobodan SijanStarsPavle VuisicDragan NikolicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicIt's April 5, 1941, somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.Nesrecnik sam od malena,
od sve tuge pesme pevam.
Voleo bih, majko mila,
da sve ovo samo snevam.
10/10 - CreatorDavid CroftJeremy LloydStarsGorden KayeCarmen SilveraVicki MichelleIn France during World War II, René Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating René."Listen carefully, I shall say this only once"
During WWII, Rene Artois and his wife Edith run a café where members of the Gestapo and French Resistance pass by each other daily, which, combined with Rene's adultery, provides an inexhaustible source of entertainment. Excellent script, character diversity, brilliant comedians, extremely witty dialogues and catchy replicas that will be remembered forever, make "Allo Allo!" one of the best sitcoms of all time. Many of us have watched a bunch of random episodes when it was run on TV, but watching this show in its entirety in a period as short as possible is a phenomenal experience that I gladly return to every few years.
9/10 - CreatorJim AbrahamsDavid ZuckerJerry ZuckerStarsLeslie NielsenAlan NorthEd WilliamsSight gags, puns and non-sequiturs ensue as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues at Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.Overrated
This show was canceled after just six episodes and, I must say, it's justified. Although "Naked Gun" franchise that I love is based on this show, this was pretty much boring to me. If I saw it as a kid back in 80's I would probably be thrilled, but I do not see how anyone passed elementary school could like this. I cannot say it's crap, but it is overrated and I think the main reason for its cult status is the very fact it was canceled so soon. People have strange habit to oppose and many shows grew instant popularity as soon as they were canceled. In some cases, like with Firefly, it's justified, but in this case, the only credit this show deserves is for spawning "Naked Gun" franchise.
5/10 - DirectorWalter HillStarsRichard PryorJohn CandyLonette McKeeA minor-league baseball player must spend $30 million in 30 days in order to inherit $300 million. However, he's not allowed to own any assets, destroy the money, gift it, give it to charity, or tell anyone about the deal.I would like to try
Movie that invokes nostalgia for childhood and one of my favorite '80s comedies. To claim 300 million dollars inheritance, a poor baseball player must spend 30 million in one month, but to win this bet he must not have any possession left but the clothes he wore to start with. Another condition is that he must not tell anyone about the bet. It is harder to spend 30 million than it seems. He cannot buy anything of value that will be considered possession, so he rents things instead of buying them and searching for many other clever ways to win this bet. But it is even harder when everyone around him, not knowing about the bet, thinks he's gone mad and trying to prevent him from bankruptcy. Extremely funny.
8/10 - DirectorDavid ZuckerStarsLeslie NielsenPriscilla PresleyO.J. SimpsonIncompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.Lots of fun
Comedy that parodies all cop movies clichés you could possibly think of and then some more already promises good entertainment. And when you add Leslie Nielsen in equation...
7,5/10 - DirectorBob LoganStarsLeslie NielsenLinda BlairNed BeattyParody of The Exorcist (1973), with Linda Blair once again possessed by Satan, and Leslie Nielsen as the exorcist."She could be related to Joe Cocker"
- She has an ungodly voice, maniacal facial expressions...
- That doesn't prove a thing, she could be related to Joe Cocker.
- No.
- Could it be she had PMS?
A comedy made as a sequel to a famous horror "The Exorcist". In the original movie, in 1973 devil takes possession of a girl named Reagan, while in "Repossessed" he takes the same person 17 years later, but here she is named Nancy. Linda Blair plays both roles, Nancy and Reagan... Nancy Reagan :D For her role in "The Exorcist" she got Golden Globe and Oscar nomination, while in her later performances she was nominated for the worst actress six times. The movie is full of typical Leslie Nielsen humor, references and parodies to everything and anything. To me, it was very entertaining and definitely worth watching, maybe even more than the original.
7,5/10 - DirectorDavid ZuckerStarsLeslie NielsenPriscilla PresleyGeorge KennedyLieutenant Frank Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy.Slightly better than the first one
To me, this one was slightly better than the original. It is extremely stupid and even more fun. And full of references to cult films. This time I actually laughed out loud.
7,5/10 - DirectorChris ColumbusStarsRobin WilliamsSally FieldPierce BrosnanAfter a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.Movie you simply have to love
One of my favorite childhood movies. It won Oscar for make-up and Robin got Golden Globe. One of the best and most fun actors ever in one of his best achievements. IMDb rating is shameful. I watched this masterpiece countless times and every time I laugh like madman regardless that I know it by heart and every time it brings tears in my eyes at the end. Beautiful beyond any description.
9/10 - DirectorPeter SegalStarsLeslie NielsenPriscilla PresleyGeorge KennedyFrank Drebin comes out of retirement to help Police Squad infiltrate a gang of terrorists planning to detonate a bomb at the Academy Awards.The best part of the trilogy
This is maybe the best part of "Naked Gun" trilogy. Hilarious parody on many popular movies and crime genre itself. Leslie Nielsen, as awesome as usual, and beautiful angel Priscilla Presley, who was 50 years old at the time which is extremely hard to believe. Even harder to believe is her bad taste in men. I mean, first Elvis and now Frank Drebin.
8/10 - DirectorKevin SmithStarsBrian O'HalloranJeff AndersonMarilyn GhigliottiA day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.I'm not even supposed to be here today!
This unusual comedy was Kevin Smith's firstborn, low-budget black and white movie that launched him as one of the wittiest screen-writers/directors of today, and the first appearance of Jay and Silent Bob, awkwardly hilarious duo that became a legend. "Required reading" for all lovers of independent film.
9/10 - DirectorBobby FarrellyPeter FarrellyStarsWoody HarrelsonRandy QuaidBill MurrayA star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches."The world can really kick your ass. I only have a vague recollection of when it wasn't kickin' mine."
Roy was raised to be the best bowler in the world, but remains without bowling hand and becomes a traveling salesman. Case or fate leads him to meet with Amish who sneaks out of his community to secretly bowl. Roy takes him under his own and trains him to beat his eternal rival on a big tournament.
This silly sports adventure is very entertaining and at times hilarious, and the above-mentioned rivals are played by Woody Harrelson and Bill Murray, backed by Randy Quaid in the role of the bowling Amish and Vanessa Angel in the main female role. It's far from the masterpiece of the genre, but you'll surely have a good time.
7/10 - DirectorSam WeismanStarsBrendan FraserLeslie MannThomas Haden ChurchA man raised in the jungle by apes falls in love with a wealthy American heiress.George of the Jungle (1997)
A movie that makes me happy.
9/10
George of the Jungle 2 (2003)
Sad attempt to get more money on old glory...
This is a disgrace in almost every way. I have nothing against movies that are meant to be in more than one part, not even those meant to be single movies but then inspired sequels, but when they knock something together just to try and get a few dollars more of the old glory... yuck.
The new cast is not bad itself, some of them are maybe even better than the original cast, but they miss the charm that we fell to in the first movie. It simply isn't it. Music is copied from the first movie. The story is unoriginal and dumb. Humor is rerun or exaggerated or simply pointless. CGI is a story for itself. In the original movie, you could not tell that the elephant is not the real one, while here all animals look like they skipped from a cartoon. Not only unconvincing, but also very irritating. The screenplay was obviously forced without ideas or inspiration and then put into the movie that I barely forced myself to watch till the end. In one word - sad.
3/10 - DirectorZdravko SotraStarsDragan MicanovicNatasa TapuskovicNikola SimicComedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.Maybe it's not one of the best, but it surely is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen.
- DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerMatt StoneMary Kay BergmanWhen Stan Marsh and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame."You may laugh yourself sick - as sick as this ruthlessly funny movie is"
"I was not a fan of South Park before I saw BL&U, nor was I a fan of movie musicals. Well, I'm still not a fan of musicals, but I'm a fan of *this* musical, and I am grateful to Parker and Stone for demonstrating that it's still possible to make a great movie on one's own terms.
For this movie, unlike the usual feature-length adaptation of a pop culture phenomenon, not only lives up to its pedigree, it wildly exceeds it. Yes, the movie does recycle many of the show's jokes, but it does so in new yet relevant contexts that keep the material funny if you are familiar with the South Park world. If you aren't familiar with that world (as I wasn't before seeing the movie), the gags are simultaneously accessible yet often subtle.
Subtle? Yes, many of the gags are. Indeed, one of the pleasures of owning a copy of the movie is having the ability to review the movie, in slo-mo if necessary, and discover throwaway sight gags that one has missed in the delirium of watching this anarchic satire the first time through. (And if you have the DVD, you can add subtitles to catch many of the songs' often elusive lyrics.)
Then there's the music. What is it about movie musicals that attracts great satiric minds? Not since Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" has a work of art so subversively exploited the conventions of the movie musical as South Park. From the droll opening strains of Mountain Town, to the Disneyesque "Up There," to the Les Miserables spoof, "La Resistance," South Park simultaneously sends up the genre while paying homage to it, and still finds room to use the songs to score delicious points against its myriad targets.
One last thing: this movie is not cynical. Beneath the scatological humor, the cartoon violence, the scathing portrayals of Wynona Ryder et al, and the backdrop of adult xenophobia, sexual repression, and political opportunism, is a sensibility that exalts childhood as an island of honesty and idealism, if also of id-like impulse and frequent selfishness. In this, they share space on the shelf of great satires with "Candide," "Gulliver's Travels," "Tom Sawyer" and especially "Huckleberry Finn"--classics that, like BL&U, also exposed the hypocrisies of the adult world "through the eyes of a child."
Elvis Costello once sang, "I want to bite the hand that feeds me/I want to bite that hand so badly/I want to make them wish they'd never met me." That BLU was shut out at the Academy Awards (having only garnered a nomination for the relatively tame "Blame Canada", which lost, appropriately enough, to the execrable Phil Collins) only vindicates the film's take-no-prisoners send-up of nearly everything that annoys in this suffocatingly focus-group-tested, PC-policed, cynically sentimental, violence-ridden, love-starved modern world. See this movie, and see the persistence of hope and possibility sparkling like a diamond amid the pop culture detritus of a quiet little red-necked, white-trash, strait-laced, meshugeneh, US mountain town." - Tresy
8/10 - DirectorRaja GosnellStarsMartin LawrenceNia LongPaul GiamattiFBI agent Malcolm Turner goes undercover as a large, elderly woman to catch an escaped convict, but complications arise when he bonds with Sherry, the convict's ex-girlfriend and the woman's granddaughter.Simple fun
Martin Lawrence plays an FBI agent, a master of disguise. In order to ambush the runaway convict, he disguises himself as a local old lady and moves into her house across the street from the convict's ex-girlfriend and, of course, falls in love with her. The film does not have any special qualities, but it is quite a decent pastime, if you want to relax and laugh a bit.
6/10 - DirectorKeenen Ivory WayansStarsAnna FarisJon AbrahamsMarlon WayansA year after disposing of the body of a man they accidentally killed, a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.One of the best in its sub-genre
The whole movie is a parody of "Scream", but along the way, it parodies about 60 more movies from the beginning of the '70s to the end of the century. It is not a masterpiece of cinematography, but it surely is a masterpiece of a mockery of pop culture.
7,5/10
Back in a theater, I recognized just a few movies it mocks, but now I caught about 20. Can any of you do better?! :D
Scream
The Exorcist
Grease
The Sixth Sense
Halloween
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Friday the 13th
The Shining
Dawson's Creek
The Matrix and/or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Baywatch
Basic Instinct
Cruel Intentions
The Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects
Riverdance
Thinner
Titanic
Urban Legend
The Blair Witch Project - DirectorKeenen Ivory WayansStarsAnna FarisMarlon WayansAntony AckerFour teens are tricked by a professor into visiting a haunted house for a school project.Wayans family is awesome
Take a look at their family tree. There's a bunch of them and everyone's a writer, actor, director, comedian... Second "Scary Movie" loses a bit of strength because it's a sequel and thus lacks originality, but still, it's lots of fun.
7/10
The Legend of Hell House
The Exorcist
Friday the 13th
Nightmare on Elm Street
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Charlie's Angels
Poltergeist
Little Shop of Horrors
The Amityville Horror
Dirty Harry
Taxi Driver - DirectorJames MangoldStarsMeg RyanHugh JackmanLiev SchreiberAn English Duke from 1876 is inadvertently dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I understood this right, for 4 years Stuart was in sexual relationship with his own great-grandmother. I wonder if authors did this intentionally, or they didn't even notice this implication.
8/10 - DirectorYann SamuellStarsGuillaume CanetMarion CotillardThibault VerhaegheAs adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another."A stupid game? Maybe so, but it was our game."
When I first saw this movie a few years ago, I was under the impression for days. Halfway through, it became one of my favorites and I rated it nine. This time the impression was somewhat weaker. Maybe due to the lack of a surprise factor, but I think that's exactly what allowed me to perceive it more objectively. The film follows the life of a couple, crazy in love with each other, ever since they met in early childhood. But instead of being together, they spend their lives as best friends who have devoted their entire lives to a completely wicked and at times sick challenging game. The story is original and full of surprises, but on the second watching, when there are no surprises and shocks, it loses quite a lot. I don't know the lead actor from before, and he didn't make much of an impression on me, though he was far from being bad, but Marion Cotillard nailed her role as usual. The directing and editing are extremely interesting and totally in the French style, and it would be obvious that the film is French even if it was made in English. I didn't like the ending, but it may be that the whole story makes sense only with such an ending. I'm not even sure I understood it well. I'm left with very mixed feelings, but the movie is definitely worth the attention. I think it's best not to try too hard to look at it objectively and analyze it, but just let its madness carry you. Warm recommendation.
8/10