Slappy & the Stinkers

Starring:B.D. Wong, Bronson Pinchot, Jennifer Coolidge, Joseph Ashton, Gary LeRoi Gray, Carl Michael Lindner, Scarlett Pomers, Travis Tedford, David Dukes, Spencer Klein, Sam McMurray, Terry Urdang, Bodhi Elfman, Terri Garber, Rick Lawless, Richard Taylor Olson, Fred Asparagus, Jamie Donnelly, Arturo Gil, Barbara Howard
Director: Barnet Kellman
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Description

What every good would-be mayor needs is a granny from the hood! In this "sharp and humorous look" (The Hollywood Reporter) at American politics, comedienne Jackie "Moms" Mabley makes her film debut as "a lovable but cantankerous" (Variety) grandma, hell-bent on puttin' her local boy in office! With performances from Slappy White, Stepin Fetchit and Butterfly McQueen, Amazing Grace is a "warm, affectionate, positive" and good "old-fashioned comedy" (Los Angeles Times)you'll revisit time and again! A pious, church-goin' widow and grandma, Grace (Mabley) hasa mouth that could take on the devil himself, and the resolve to smack down an even bigger evil: politics! When she learns that her neighbor, mayoral candidate Welton (Moses Gunn), is nothin' more than a white man's pawn, she takes him under her wing and hits the street as his campaign manager! Nowthe blue-blood establishment has a no-nonsense, go-get-'em granny to deal with in a battle for the Baltimore vote!

Customer Reviews:

Moms Mabley Was Awesome.......2005-10-12

I have heard of Moms Mabley but never got a chance to see her comedy until I watched Amazing Grace. The DVD was excellent and Moms Mabley comedy was off the hook. I strongly recommend the DVD

I Love It!.......2004-11-24

I saw this movie on cable a while back and I just laughed myself to the ground. Let me explain this movie; A older lady(Ms Moms Mabley herself, who was a gem and is gone now, but if u was around back in the day, u know what I mean); just happens to live next door to this shady politician(Moses Gunn), who if elected, will take the money slated for that area and use for his own "uses". Somehow, Moms has this fella(Slappy White) who helps her out in her shenanigans by putting up elaborate spy systems so they can hear the politician's business. After his high faluting wife(Rosalind Cash, who was as much a gem and gone too)puts on airs with Moms and some of the neighborhood women, Moms give her something to cry for and she and her husband in time, see the light to turn things around. Folks, this is one good movie; a bit disjointed at times, but you can catch the message just the same; Look for bit parts by Debbie Morgan and some others who are prominent now.

A hidden treasure!.......2003-09-09

This movie is a true hidden gem. The footage justs takes you back and makes you feel as if you were back in '75. Definate feel good movie.

Amazing Grace.......2003-07-04

Fantastic! What a wonderful movie, blending the old south with the movement of the times. It influenced me to buy it and add it to my collection of American movies.

The Swan Song of Moms Mabley.......2003-05-28

Lovers of the legendary Black commedienne Moms Mabley will treasure this film. In a way, it's about everything she stood for. She moves to Baltimore and gets involved when crooked politicans use a confused Black man (Moses Gunn) and his alcoholic wife (Rosiland Cash) as puppets in a phony race. Seventy-plus year old Moms steps in this mess and does her best to straighten things out! I dare anyone who remembers Moms to keep a dry eye when she gives her climactic speech to the students at Morgan State University (a real Black college in Baltimore). It's almost as if she were giving her own eulogy while still giving the students hope to fight for a better tomorrow (she had a heart attack during the filming and died shortly after it was released).

Description

Five second-grade kids who don't follow strict rules by their school principal Brinway are dubbed "Stinkers" by him. On the class visit to an aquarium, the Stinkers decide that a sea lion called Slappy doesn't feel too good there, "free" him, and plant him into Brinway's hot tub.

Customer Reviews:

Minus "Slappy and the".......2007-06-16

Five supposedly stinky second-graders free a sea lion named Slappy from an aquarium and make it their mission to return him to the ocean. The usually sleek and commanding actor, B.D. Wong, is reduced to playing the kids' foil in the form of a school headmaster who is either falling down, getting hit in the groin, or being soaked with something wet and repulsive. Another foil is a malodorous animal dealer (Sam MacMurray) who wants to sell Slappy to a Bulgarian circus. Be sure and look for Bronson Pinchot as a dimwitted groundskeeper who mistakes Slappy for a gopher... Or, just splice Caddyshack and Free Willy together, and enjoy much better movies on the same themes.

modern day little Rascals.......2006-11-17

Just because the story line is predicable does not make this a bad movie. My kids love this movie and laugh their way through it. It has the "saved by the bell" mentality with some of the adult characters but if you liked the little rascals growing up you will enjoy this movie with the kids.

it's no Free Willy.......2006-09-05

We picked up this movie at a garage sale, and I am SO GLAD I only paid a dollar. I really feel I should get a refund though, and maybe some payment for time lost! The plot line is SO contrived (oh look at the poor sea lion, he looks so sad, we should save him and release him to the sea). Free Willy it ain't! The acting is abysmal, and don't get me started on the fake accents!! *shudder*

I gave it 2 stars instead of one because the kids had some laughs. However with the basic premise that kids should defy adults because they are all stupid, incompetent, and/or evil I think there are MUCH better family films out there to get your chuckles.

Slappy is a hit.......2005-08-16

My son requested this DVD. I had not heard of this title before and was unsure of what to expect. It looks to be a Little Rascals type of movie. But either way, my son loves it and watches it again and again.

Same movie?.......2004-11-11

Dear hell! Did you people see the same movie? Did I miss something? "Well acted"? "Great for kids"? For the love of all that's holy upon this green earth this has to be one of the worst traveling road shows caught on film! People in the theater were jumping off their chairs praying audibly that they might be lucky enough to land on their necks and die!!! Whole families were bidding tearful goodbyes to one another before leaping to their collective doom.

One weary parent told me to take my children and leave: "Someone's got to tell the story of what happened here!" Luckily I did, otherwise no one but the ushers would know of the horror known simply as "Slappy and The Stinkers."

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