Chairman of the Board

Starring:Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Larry Miller, Raquel Welch, Mystro Clark, Jack Plotnick, Jack Warden, Estelle Harris, Bill Erwin, M. Emmet Walsh, Jack McGee, Glenn Shadix, Fred Stoller, Taylor Negron, Patrick J. Clifton, Stuart Damon, Darcie Dodds, Jack Bratton-Ryan, Tyler Bratton-Ryan, Courtney Hope Lenkov
Director: Alex Zamm
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

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Edison (Carrot Top) is a surfing would-be inventor who makes goofy Rube Goldberg-style gadgets. Here's a taste: a drinking glass with a forehead heater to prevent brain freeze. They're all pretty much like that. The chairman of a large corporation (Jack Warden), who had shown interest in Edison's "ideas," dies and leaves Edison in charge of his company. Another would-be benefactor (Larry Miller), beaten out of his inheritance by Edison, makes it his evil mission to wrest control of the company from the ne'er-do-well with the shock of silly hair. A thin formula on which to hang some amazingly unfunny gags, all done in a broad cartoon-style, but with no flair. Puts the stupid in Stupid Comedy, then takes out all the comedy. Well, okay, not all. The videotaped will takes the form of a game show, presenting things to be inherited as prizes in the manner of Wheel of Fortune, complete with its own Vanna White. The rest is one lame attempt at a joke after another, with some time taken for Carrot Top to do pale imitations of Jim Carrey, possibly unintentionally. Highlights include Cindy Margolis. --Jim Gay

Customer Reviews:

Out of the park, clearly.......2006-07-30

I'd like to doff my hat to Carrot Top for single-handedly drawing attention to, and gaining some long-deserved respect for the red-headed people of the Earth. I'm not a redhead myself, but I still think it's pretty amazing. Those of us with black hair and dark eyes could really use someone like Carrot Top to champion our own cause and maybe squeeze a drop of d@*n respect from The Man too.

Chairman of the Board. CHAIRMAN of the Board. Not *lap monkey* of the Board. Not *yes sah, what I can get y'all sah* of the Board. Chairman. CHAIRMAN of the Board. Hear that Mr. Bush? Carrot Top's a knockin'.

And so was my funny bone when I stumbled across this treasure in VHS format on the clearance rack of Wal-Mart late one Wednesday night. It was a gamble, but I was very drunk, or something closely resembling that, and my friend, Eponu, convinced me it was a good idea. He was right. Righter than he'd been, even, about the chili-cheese Fritos the night before.

I'd always thought Carrot's TV commercials pretty much sucked. They always made me wonder "where's that guy's eyebrows, anyhow?" And seeing him get more muscular just made the mascara look even creepier. But this film is from before his almost-cross dresser period. And it's pretty obvious why the TV marketers scoured the depths of whatever bathroom he was probably living in at the time to get his name in ink on a shiny new contract. Mr. Top here shows that he is to cinema what Jerry Seinfeld was to television. It is a travesty that this movie is doomed to lie forever buried in obscurity, the world not having been ready to receive it when it was actually released.

So you'd better snap up a copy soon, because I seriously doubt there will be any future re-releases before they get around to doing some kind of comprehensive retrospective of films that changed the world. And even then, you'd have to sift through all that Bogart/Orwell/Hitchcock rubbish to get to the good stuff. Far and away one of the best titles you can have in your collection for those times when it's 3 in the morning and you and your friends have gone through 2 bags of chips and are working on that old box of cornflakes that never gets eaten.

I only regret I never had the chance to catch it in its true crowning glory on the big screen.

A laugh a minute.......2006-04-25

I have just spent the last two hours watching Carrot Top's 'Chairman of the Board' for the first time. It was so good I watched it fifteen times. I love his crazy hair, his bucked teeth and big ears. My favourite bit was when Elmer was walking through the forest with his hunting gun and says "Be vewy, vewy, qwuiwet. I'm hunting wabbits! he! he! he! he!". The next thing you know Carrot Top leaps out of a hole and hollers "What's up Doc?" gnaws on a carrot and he dives back into the hole. This film has exactly three hundred and nine jokes and I laughed at three hundred and eight of them and that was only because I was out of the room every time that joke was executed.

Carrot Top's 'Chairman of the Board' is comedy genius, the jokes are fresh and ahead of their time. This film is so funny I think that it should be banned as I nearly died laughing.

I award this film five stars a WG Sinclair big double thumbs up.

Carrot Top is a Delight.......2006-01-09

Just remember: Carrot Top cannot be equalled. This movie should have garnered an Oscar for every word of dialogue uttered within its parameters. I'm sure that giving out 32,684 Oscars for one movie would have bankrupted the gold industry, but it would been worth it.

An artist at his peak.......2005-05-06

I have been lucky enough in my lifetime to see Michael Jordan at his peak, Tiger Woods at his finest and Ralph Macchio in Karate Kid. It is a special feeling when you know you are a witness to greatness at a historical level. This movie gives you that chance. Carrot Top is just brilliant and gifted. I think we can all agree on that fact. His prop gigs have revolutionized high level comedy at a level on Gallagher and Jeff Foxworthy can relate to. I've seen his stand up act 231 times and never fail to lose control of my bladder. That being said, Carrot Top on the big screen given an oscar level screenplay is just heavenly. Courtney Thorne Smith continues her trend of dating top level leading men like Jim Belushi and Lewis from Revenge of the Nerds. I bet a lot of ladies wish they had her agent. Larry Miller is, well, Larry Miller. Nothing more needs to be said. He's in that Hanks, Gibson, Freeman pantheon of great actors of our lifetime.

This story is just gripping and takes you on an emotional rollercoaster you could only simulate if your cat died, followed by intercourse with Pam Anderson, followed by an infomercial on Tony Robbins, topped off with a Pizza Party thrown at your house by Jay Leno. I was so emotionally spent after this film, I called in sick to work for the next 5 days. Do yourself a favor and see this masterpiece.

This film could be used to torture people in foreign countri.......2004-12-20

Unspeakably bad! If you are a fan of movies like Werewolf and
Final Examination, you will probably love this. An act of Congress needs to be passed to prevent Carrot Top from ever working in show business again!

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