Little John

Starring:Ving Rhames, Gloria Reuben, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Patty Duke, Robert Bailey Jr., Octavia Spencer, Alyssa Gainer, Hayden Tank, Marc McClure, Jack McGee, Ellis Williams, Geraldine Hughes, William Mesnik, Bruce Nozick, Elizabeth Anne Smith, Dex Elliot Sanders, Scott Burkholder, Susan Merson, Henry G. Sanders, Peter Van Norden
Director: Dick Lowry
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

The Little Mermaid (2-Disc Platinum Edition)

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One of the last great Disney Movies
Grandchildren Loved The Little Mermaid
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The Little Mermaid (2-Disc Platinum Edition)
Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid (2-Disc Platinum Edition)
Starring: Rene Auberjonois , Christopher Daniel Barnes , Jodi Benson , Pat Carroll , and Paddi Edwards
Director: Ron Clements , and John Musker
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ASIN: B000F8O35U
Release Date: 2006-10-03

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From the moment that Prince Eric's ship emerged from the fog in the opening credits it was apparent that Disney had somehow, suddenly recaptured that "magic" that had been dormant for thirty years. In the tale of a headstrong young mermaid who yearns to "spend a day, warm on the sand," Ariel trades her voice to Ursula, the Sea Witch (classically voiced by Pat Carroll), for a pair of legs. Ariel can only succeed if she receives true love's kiss in a few day's time and she needs all the help she can from a singing crab named Sebastian, a loudmouth seagull, and a flounder. The lyrics and music by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken are top form: witty and relevant, and they advance the story (go on, hum a few bars of "Under the Sea"). Mermaid put animation back on the studio's "to do" list and was responsible for ushering Beauty and the Beast to theaters. A modern Disney classic. --Keith Simanton

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THE LITTLE MERMAID, one of the most celebrated animated films of all time -- and winner of two Academy Awards(R) (Best Music, Original Score; Best Music, Original Song, "Under The Sea," 1989) -- splashes onto an exciting 2-Disc DVD with an all-new digital restoration. Ariel, a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid, is off on the adventure of a lifetime with her best friend, the adorable Flounder, and the reggae-singing Caribbean crab Sebastian at her side. But it will take all of her courage and determination to make her dreams come true—and save her father's beloved kingdom from the sneaky sea witch Ursula! Dive into a world of music and adventure in this new 2-Disc Platinum Edition your family will enjoy again and again!

Customer Reviews:

One of the last great Disney Movies.......2007-05-28

Mermaid was one of Disney's last great movies.....before they started trying to spin each classic tale into a 2nd, 3rd movie....each meaningless money making machines.

The Little Mermaid is the Disney version of the Hans Christian Anderson tale. Disney brings it to life with the beautiful Ariel, and a whole cast of loveable characters- Flounder, Eric, Sebastian, Flounder, Skuttle.

Ariel, the youngest of many daughters is bored with life under water and want to explore life on land as a human. She see's a man aboard a boat and falls in love. His name is Eric. When a storm rages, Ariel saves Eric and leaves his ashore. He sees her and can't forget her face. Against her fathers wishes Ariel dreams of life on land. She bargains with the sea witch Ursula to turn her into a human. The price she pays is her voice. She has to make Eric fall in love with her- but she has no voice.
Ursula uses Ariels voice to bring her father to her knees. In the end, she is overcome, and Triton- Ariels father is saved, and let's Ariel go- to become a human.

The music is some of the most creative animated music EVER. From Kiss the girl to Under the Sea, each songs is singable, and unforgettable. Boy and girls alike will love this movie about dreams, courage, and adventure.

Grandchildren Loved The Little Mermaid.......2007-05-17

I bought this for my three grandchildren and they are very, very happy with it and have watched it many times already.

Great Product!.......2007-05-14

The dvd was brand new in the packaging. I would defintely buy from this seller again!!!

The Little Mermaid (2-Disc Platinum Edition).......2007-05-13

Bought this for my wife. She's always loved the story and had been wanting the DVD for a while. When the special edition came out, I grabbed it. The commentaries are great. The history of the story, the animation process, and the cast/crew is wonderful.

Little Mermaid.......2007-05-09

An upgrade to DVD. Wonderful movie to watch, beautiful coloring and music. Ariel can sing the pants off a crab.

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Great show!
EXCELLENT FILM
Overtly Stereotypical on Models.
Just the right amount of sunshine
Black Comedy Masterpiece

Little Miss Sunshine
Starring: Abigail Breslin , Greg Kinnear , Paul Dano , Alan Arkin , and Toni Collette
Director: Jonathan Dayton , and Valerie Faris
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ASIN: B000K7VHQE
Release Date: 2006-12-19

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Pile together a blue-ribbon cast, a screenplay high in quirkiness, and the Sundance stamp of approval, and you've got yourself a crossover indie hit. That formula worked for Little Miss Sunshine, a frequently hilarious study of family dysfunction. Meet the Hoovers, an Albuquerque clan riddled with depression, hostility, and the tattered remnants of the American Dream; despite their flakiness, they manage to pile into a VW van for a weekend trek to L.A. in order to get moppet daughter Olive (Abigail Breslin) into the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. Much of the pleasure of this journey comes from watching some skillful comic actors doing their thing: Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette as the parents (he's hoping to become a self-help authority), Alan Arkin as a grandfather all too willing to give uproariously inappropriate advice to a sullen teenage grandson (Paul Dano), and a subdued Steve Carell as a jilted gay professor on the verge of suicide. The film is a crowd-pleaser, and if anything is a little too eager to bend itself in the direction of quirk-loving Sundance audiences; it can feel forced. But the breezy momentum and the ingenious actors help push the material over any bumps in the road.-- Robert Horton

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Take a hilarious ride with the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families in comedy history.

Father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is desperately trying to sell his motivational success program...with no success. Meanwhile, "pro-honesty" mom Sheryl (Toni Collette) lends support to her eccentric family, including her depressed brother (Steve Carell), fresh out of the hospital after being jilted by his lover. Then there are the younger Hoovers?the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence. Topping off the family is the foul-mouthed grandfather (Alan Arkin), whose outrageous behavior recently got him evicted from his retirement home. When Olive is invited to compete in the "Little Miss Sunshine" pageant in far-off California, the family piles into their rusted-out VW bus to rally behind her?with riotously funny results.

Customer Reviews:

Great show!.......2007-07-03

Hilarious, from start to finish. You listen and stare at each other in amazement that they collectively grasped the concept of the whole family on a road trip persona. It was a great show and I loved the moral of the whole thing that family comes first, no matter what!

EXCELLENT FILM.......2007-07-01

Little Miss Sunshine sounds like a cute, girly film but in fact it is an excellent film that touches so many topics. Little Olive (played by Oscar Nominee Abigail Breslin, brother of Spencer Breslin) tries out for the Little Miss Sunshine Pagent and must ride there in a car (which is like a character) with an array of interesting people. She is with her suicidal uncle, drug addicted dirty yet loving gradpa, her "I'm not talking till I get what I want" brother, her unsuccesful father who is annoying, and her loving mother who is trying her best to provide for the family. The film is fun, heartful and makes wou want more. The acting is amazing and the writing is spectacular. It deserved every Oscar it got and the Best Picture nomination. The writers masterfully switch from a depressing scene to the funniest part in the movie. AMAZING FILM

Overtly Stereotypical on Models........2007-06-27

It was an alright movie; however, that ending was not what I expected it to be for a movie entitled "Little Miss Sunshine," because there was no "Sunshine" in the end.

Just the right amount of sunshine.......2007-06-25

A very funny, occasionally moving and at times disturbing look at a typically dysfunctional family on a road trip to a beauty contest for pre-pubescent girls. The entire cast is great - Alan Arkin (who is hilarious) won the Oscar, but really any one of the six could have won. What I like about Little Miss Sunshine the most is that it's a feel-good movie that never feels corny or manipulative. The reason being that hovering around the sunshine the film casts are the dark clouds of depression, suicide, drug abuse and failure. The film could be just as easily depressing and dark as it could be sappy and sentimental, but the two polar opposites keep the other in check and create a fun, quirky atmosphere. The film isn't perfect - its comments on beauty pageants and America's obsession with winning seem a bit forced, contradictory and weigh down everything else. Despite its flaws, I dare you to watch Little Miss Sunshine without cracking a smile and feeling good. Recommended.

Black Comedy Masterpiece.......2007-06-22

Cynical, sarcastic, biting, dark, this is hands down the funniest movie of 2006. Wonderful movie, great script, great actors, what's not to love? A very smart comedy, which will have you in stitches.

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Flawed but decent.
A Movie For Mothers & Daughters
Portrait of a pushy, annoying parent
Formula tripe
Sadly falls short, way short, of what it could have been...

Because I Said So (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Diane Keaton , Mandy Moore (II) , Gabriel Macht , Tom Everett Scott , and Lauren Graham
Director: Michael Lehmann
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ASIN: B000OCZA04
Release Date: 2007-05-08

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In Because I Said So, Diane Keaton outdoes any pushy parent trying to marry off their children. On the eve of her 60th birthday, Daphne (Keaton) decides that she will find a suitable suitor for her youngest daughter Milly (Mandy Moore). Never mind that Moore was barely into her 20's when she shot the film and easily could pass as a high-school senior. The film asks us to believe that an otherwise smart, loving mother would push marriage on a young woman who obviously wasn't ready for that kind of commitment. The romantic comedy has a cute premise that grows old fast: In order to root for Daphne's almost manic desire to see Milly walk down the aisle, the audience has to believe she's undergoing some kind of trauma, or at least dying of an incurable disease. But because she is such an overbearing busybody whose best interests for her daughter have little to do with reality, viewers just see an obnoxious, meddling mother trying to micromanage her child's life. That we don't want to strangle Daphne is a credit to Keaton's acting skills, which manage to shine through, even in the most over-the-top scenes. Lauren Graham and the always adorable Piper Perabo play Milly's older, married sisters. Had the film revolved around the three sisters' lives--sans mom--Because I Said So would have been a much more interesting picture. --Jae-Ha Kim

Customer Reviews:

Flawed but decent........2007-07-01

Because I Said So starring Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore is a so-so mother/daughter movie. Parts of this movie work and of course parts of it fall flat. The supporting cast is annoying but the true talent of this film is Mandy Moore. She holds her own as Milly, her mother is controlling, opininated, nervous, and constantly on her daughter's back about settling down and sticking to a relationship. This movie has some funny moments but don't expect it to blow you away. If you're a Diane Keaton then this movie is for you.

A Movie For Mothers & Daughters.......2007-07-01

A charming movie about letting go...Daphne Wilder (Keaton), 60, single, and mother to three successful daughters takes it upon herself to select a mate for her youngest daughter Milly (played to perfection by Moore). By placing a personal ad on the internet and filtering out all the rejects, Daphne has selected an equally successful and gorgeous architect Jason (Tom Hank's greatest discovery Tom Everett Scott), however Milly has chosen Johnny (theatre actor Gabriel Macht), a single father raising a son with love of music and tattoos.
Dismayed that Milly would choose a musician over the perfect architect, Daphne tries to run Milly's life and finally realizes that despite her good intentions she has to let go and let Milly make her own mistakes. Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) gives a fantastic performance as Daphne's oldest daughter/psychiatrist Maggie. Piper Perabo (Cheaper by the Dozen) also strikes a cord as the middle daughter Mae, who both try to persuade their mother to let Milly lead her own life. Stephen Collins (7th Heaven) also gives a memorable performance as Johnny's dad Joe, who teaches Daphne a thing or two about love, life, and letting go.

Portrait of a pushy, annoying parent.......2007-06-29

This movie received relatively bad reviews, but I have to wonder why. Diane Keaton played a mom who WOULD NOT let her daughters grow up and find their own ways in the world. As I watched the movie at a local theatre, I was tempted to rush the screen and strangle Diane's character for the controlling "witch" she was! But since when should we hold the nature of the role against the actress portraying it? The acting was fine, and the topic was extremely timely for our day. We live in a world where parents refuse to let their adult "children" go and some "children" refuse to leave home when they reach adulthood (see "Failure to Launch" for the flip side of this crisis)! The point of this movie (to me) is that parents must realize that their role in life is to prepare their children for adulthood, and that controlling your children's lives past adulthood is ridiculous.

I think this movie makes an important statement, and if it saves even one adult "child" from the clutches of a well-meaning but annoyingly controlling parent, then it has served its purpose!

Formula tripe.......2007-06-27

Films like this is what happens when Hollywood acts like our present music industry, reducing the creation of its art form to a factory assembly line, cranking out endless clones one after the other according to tried and true profitable formulas. Follow the formula, include a few dumb laughs, try out the film on some test audiences, change what they don't like, keep the production costs down, and release the churned out swill for a guaranteed modest profit. If you haven't already been asking "How on earth do these dumb rom coms (formula romantic comedies) even get made in the first place," you will be. Oh yes, you will be.

Sadly falls short, way short, of what it could have been..........2007-06-26

The sad thing about `Because I Said So' is that it oozes with potential yet crashes and burns in takeoff. The pairing of the uber-talented Diane Keaton and lovable Mandy Moore should and very well could bring forth a great romantic comedy but instead proves to be one of the most painful movie watching experiences in recent memory. Watching Keaton resort to cheesy dialog and over-the-top antics that even she can't make work is enough to make any true fan of the actress verp but it's the ridiculous way the premise is executed that makes me shiver at the thought of the two hours I lost to this train wreck. As someone mentioned, had the film revolved more around the three daughters and less around the overbearing and somewhat sexually repressed mother then it may have been a much more rewarding film.

The plot revolves around Daphne, a mother approaching her sixtieth birthday with two married daughters and then their Milly, her youngest who is still single and can't seem to keep a relationship for very long. Daphne makes it her goal to pair Milly up with a good man, even going as far as to put out a `personal add' in order to interview men for her daughter and then secretly set her up with them. Then Daphne meets her match when a young guitarist becomes aware of her meddling scheme and takes it upon himself to woo Milly foiling Daphne's plans.

It's funny to me because as I was typing the above paragraph I realized just how funny and entertaining this movie really could have been. On paper it sounds great but on screen it was horrendous. The biggest problem was Keaton. Her car chase scene alone almost brought my wife to eject the DVD it was that mind-numbing. Diane has always had a habit of overacting, but as she proved in `Something's Gotta Give' she can reign it in to where it's enjoyable and entertaining. Here though she possesses none of the charm that garnered her the Oscar nomination in 2003. Here she does nothing but annoy and frustrate both her daughters and the audience.

Mandy Moore is still sweet and adorable but the material she has to work with does her no favors. In fact the only characters I really enjoyed and or cared to watch besides the sisters, who are criminally deprived of screen time, was Gabriel Macht who plays Milly's guitar-wielding boy toy and Reverend Camden who plays his father. Stephen Collins especially really delivers here and I wish that the film itself had been better if not for the sheer excitement of seeing him in a movie. In fact when he's on screen with Keaton she's less irritating and a little more tolerable. There couch make-out session was a highlight and the audience is even given a glimmer of the charm we've come to love in Diane Keaton. Alas, the film is a flop and aside from a few very spread out chuckles and the appearance of Father Camden it's a complete drag and waste of an evening in. Skip this one and rent something with a little more substance and a lot more laughs. My one star is for Collins.

Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)

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Blazing Saddles
Funny, Funnier, Funniest
Classic scenes are cut out
Enjoyable once in awhile
A Mel Must-Own

Blazing Saddles (30th Anniversary Special Edition)
Starring: Richard Collier , Carol DeLuise , Dom DeLuise , Liam Dunn , and George Furth
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Release Date: 2004-06-29

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Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea. --Jeff Shannon

Description

The railroad's got to run through the town of Rock Ridge. How do you drive out the townfolk in order to steal their land? Send in the toughest gang you've got...and name a new sheriff who'll last about 24 hours. But that's not really the plot of Blazing Saddles, just the pretext. Once Mel Brooks' lunatic film many call his best gets started, logic is lost in a blizzard of gags, jokes, quips, puns, howlers, growlers and outrageous assaults upon good taste or any taste at all. Cleavon Little as the new lawman, Gene Wilder as the wacko Waco Kid, Brooks himself as a dim-witted politico and Madeline Kahn in her Marlene Dietrich send-up that earned an Academy Award nomination all give this sagebrush saga their lunatic best. And when Blazing Saddles can't contain itself at the finale, it just proves the Old West will never be the same!

Customer Reviews:

Blazing Saddles.......2007-07-03

Tastelessly ribald spoof of Hollywood Westerns packs a lot of silly madcap comedy into its 90-minute running time. Just about everyone imaginable becomes the target of Mel Brooks's shamelessly funny lampooning, and Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and the great Gene Wilder turn in some of the loopiest performances of their careers. Madeline Kahn is especially memorable as Lilli Von Shtupp, a Marlene Dietrich-like chanteuse. If you're in the mood for humor that's lewd, crude and unabashedly infantile, hitch your wagon to "Blazing Saddles".

Funny, Funnier, Funniest.......2007-06-18

The first movie that my wife watched in one sitting and wanted to see again the next evening. Side splitting and healthy slapstick as only Mel could make.

Classic scenes are cut out.......2007-06-10

If you like this movie, DO NOT buy this edition, as some classic scenes have been cut out of this early-DVD era release. Buy the 30th anniversary edition instead.

Enjoyable once in awhile.......2007-06-01

Frankly, I don't find Blazing Saddles to be THAT funny. It's a movie that you can enjoy watching about once every ten years or so, but not any more often. Mongo is funny, and Gene Wilder gives a fantastic dramatic performance as always. Otherwise, there's not much about Blazing Saddles that's really that amazing. It's amusing, but not once did I laugh out loud. And even though it is obviously used to make a political statement, the repeated use of the "N" word still turned me off. I know it was being used tongue-in-cheek, but like most of the bits in this movie, I just didn't find it funny. Another mark against this movie is that due to its age, many of the cameos and cultural references go over the head of people today, not even realizing who they are seeing or that certain things are being parodied. Overall, more boring than funny, even when you know what the references are.

A Mel Must-Own.......2007-05-31

Probably the best, if not, the most influential of all of Brooks' films. Probably couldn't be released today with all the PC watchdogs howling, but that's another matter all together! Madeline Kahn at her finest with her tongue-in-cheek Dietrich send-up! No comedy collection should be without this masterpiece!

Average customer rating:

very good
Like the movie...not the singing
The second best musical of all times
Funny with a great Soundtrack!
Humorously Devious

Little Shop of Horrors
Starring: Rick Moranis , Ellen Greene , Vincent Gardenia , Steve Martin , and Tichina Arnold
Director: Frank Oz
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Release Date: 2000-05-23

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The off-Broadway comedy-horror-musical hit that ran for years makes a successful transfer to film with a bevy of big-name cameos and two perfectly cast leads. Rick Moranis is the nebbish Seymour, who pines for flower-girl Audrey (Ellen Greene) while living in the basement of florist Mr. Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia). Things start turning around for Seymour, though, after he buys a little plant during a solar eclipse, christens it Audrey II, and discovers that it likes to drink blood. Soon enough, though, Seymour finds out that Audrey II, now grown to epic proportions, is in actuality a "mean green mother from outer space" that is hell-bent on world domination. Based on the 1960 Roger Corman cheapie that featured a young Jack Nicholson, Little Shop boasts a hilarious, amazing score by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who would go on to revitalize Disney's animation arm with The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. Greene, the lone holdover from the original cast, is a ravishing, goofy Audrey, whose awkward demeanor belies a voice that could knock Ethel Merman off her feet. She's ably matched by Moranis, whose lack of a singing voice is perfectly in sync with Seymour's nerdiness. And Levi Stubbs Jr. of the Four Tops provides the lowdown, nasty-minded voice of Audrey II; his rendition of the Oscar-nominated "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" is a showstopper. As for those celebrity cameos, Steve Martin's sadistic dentist is a masterful creation, as is Bill Murray's masochistic patient; John Candy, James Belushi, and Christopher Guest also pop up. And there was never a lovelier and funkier Greek chorus than the three Motown-fueled girls (Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks, and Tisha Campbell) who appear throughout the film. --Mark Englehart

Customer Reviews:

very good.......2007-06-28

i love this movie it is fun and funny it has comedy and action and murder a evil plant what more could you ask for

Like the movie...not the singing.......2007-05-18

This is a pretty good movie, except for all the singing....I know it's that type of movie, but I don't care for it. But I love the plot!

The second best musical of all times.......2007-05-15

I first saw this when I was about 12. I hated it at first because I wasn't mature enough to watch it with out having nightmares. Luckely after occasionaly watching it over a period of about two years I final was able to to watch the whole movie from beginiing to end without stopping except for bathroom breaks. If you saw the original black and white version of this made in the sixties and the off brodway play which ran four about four years in New York. I also thought I would inform you that the whole alternate first ending is not include on this dvd. The al;ternate nding was only avilable for about the first three days the dvd was avilable for sale on line and in stores when it first came out. Unfortunately Mr. Griffen had not given approval to have the alternate ending included on the dvd so only fragments of it remain on the second release of it. When young rick morransis discovers a mystery planet trouble some comes up. Can rick tame this blood thirst monster will he is forced to murder to feed it;s growing hunger. I also thought I'd inform you that two of the members of this cast are currently decased. John Candy died from a heart prtoblem I belive it was shorly after his role as Barf in spaceballs the famous spoof of the starwars triology that came out after this. In addition shortly before the dvd release vincent Garden also passed away. Can seymor control this monster of nature and what fate lies in store for the human race. Find out in thrilling action packed hillarious finally. This movie should be fine for kids 13 and up due to mild gory images mild rude humor mild violence in a couple of parts, intensity and occasional inapropriate language at the begining, middle and the end of the movie.

Funny with a great Soundtrack!.......2007-04-06

I'm not crazy about musicals, but if the music's right and the story's tight, then I can be sold. I fell in love with this movie when I first saw it and I still love it today. I also admire the original by Roger Corman. Who can resist a giant wise cracking plant that eats people and sings! Gotta love it.

Humorously Devious.......2007-03-23

I have nothing but respect for the puppeteers who controlled dear Audrey II. That plant ran the show, no doubt about it.

As musicals go this is one of the greatest, only second to Rocky Horror.

Rick Moranis is brilliant, and Ellen Greene has such an amazingly deep voice for such a tiny woman.

The three women singing throughout the movie gave me chills with every note. The vocal in this film are surprising and beautiful.

The story itself is brilliantly funny and horrific, it will have you laughing and cowering at the same time.

A true classic and worth watching...again, and again and again.

Average customer rating:

Flawed but decent.
A Movie For Mothers & Daughters
Portrait of a pushy, annoying parent
Formula tripe
Sadly falls short, way short, of what it could have been...

Because I Said So (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Diane Keaton , Mandy Moore (II) , Gabriel Macht , Tom Everett Scott , and Lauren Graham
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Customer Reviews:

Flawed but decent........2007-07-01

A Movie For Mothers & Daughters.......2007-07-01

Portrait of a pushy, annoying parent.......2007-06-29

Formula tripe.......2007-06-27

Sadly falls short, way short, of what it could have been..........2007-06-26

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One for your collection
This flick is genius! TWO DOLLARS!
Classic 80s
rofl
One of the best 'dumb movies'

Better Off Dead
Starring: Yano Anaya , Curtis Armstrong , Frank Burt Avalon , John Cusack , and Elizabeth Daily
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ASIN: B00005JKFA
Release Date: 2002-07-16

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Lane Myer (John Cusack) is stuck in a personal hell. A compulsive, adolescent Everyman growing up in Suburbia, USA, not only does he fail to make the prestigious high school ski team (again), but his beloved sweetheart, Beth, also leaves him for Roy, the team's popular, arrogant captain. If this isn't bad enough, he's stuck with a mother who frighteningly experiments--rather than cooks--with food, a brother who builds rockets out of models, and a best friend so desperate for drugs that he settles for snorting powdered snow. Faced with these prospects, Lane opts to end it all ... until he comes up with a ridiculous plan to gain acceptance and win Beth back. Director Savage Steve Holland warps this simple, clichéd premise, letting his wacky imagination twist it into a fairly original, slightly dark, and completely hilarious '80s teen comedy. Not as serious a "suicide-attempt" movie as, say, Harold and Maude but just as funny, the film's more a collection of screwball sketches than a narrative. Holland livens the high jinks with surrealistic fantasy touches, including Jell-O that crawls, a hamburger that sings Van Halen, drawings that mock its creator, Japanese race-car drivers who only speak Howard Cosell, and a psychotic paperboy seeking blood over a missing $2. Cusack puts the whole thing on his shoulders and carries the insanity with another one of his touching, obsessively romantic performances, which, along with Say Anything, The Sure Thing, and One Crazy Summer, made him the quintessential (and appealing) personification of lovestruck adolescence and suffering. --Dave McCoy

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One for your collection.......2007-06-10

If you are looking for a corky, funny movie this is it. One of my all time favorites.

This flick is genius! TWO DOLLARS!.......2007-05-29

Who else loves this film? Apparently, John Cusack doesn't. Oh well!

The film is about a teenager, Lane Meyer, who is ridiculously obsessed with his girlfriend. After breaking up with her, he tries suicide. Of course, the attempts backfire on him. Meanwhile, she's with a new guy, Roy, captain of the ski team, and he's trying to avoid a paperboy who will try anything to acquire his two dollars, and unbearable events at his house with his off the wall family members. Fortunately, Lane's neighbors have taken in a French exchange student, Monique Junot, who seems to have a crush on Lane. Meanwhile, Lane has to defeat Roy in order to get his girlfriend's respect...

"Better Off Dead..." is DEFINITELY one of the greatest teen comedies ever conceived. It's truly an original, off the wall, hilarious film. Cusack will always be Lane Meyer to me.

Classic 80s.......2007-05-23

I love this movie! I watched several times when I was a kid and loved it. It was a must for my DVD collection. Hilarious, classic one-liners!

rofl.......2007-05-14

This movie is a must for anyone with a sense of humor. Cusak is witty and funny portraying the feelings of the average teen with great skill. The plot, characters, and everything in-between are simply perfect for its time and their value still carries today.

One of the best 'dumb movies'.......2007-05-07

One of the best 'dumb movies' of all time.

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Elvis - The Hollywood Collection (Charro / Girl Happy / Kissin' Cousins / Live a Little, Love a Little / Stay Away, Joe / Tickle Me)
Starring: Elvis Presley , Ina Balin , Victor French , Barbara Werle , and Solomon Sturges
Director: Charles Marquis Warren , Boris Sagal , and Gene Nelson
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000QUUD6A
Release Date: 2007-08-07

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The only thing better than the movie is the book
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Little Big Man
Starring: James Anderson , Carol Androsky , Martin Balsam , Jack Bannon , and Cal Bellini
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ASIN: B00003CXB5
Release Date: 2003-04-29

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Jack Crabb is the only white survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn and the centenarian shares his story in this picaresque fable of the Old West. In Arthur Penn's adaptation of Thomas Berger's novel, Dustin Hoffman plays Jack from teen years into old age in a bravura performance. And Jack's story is a fantastic one: captured by Indians as a boy, reared as an Indian, shuttling back and forth between the white and Indian worlds. In the process, he befriends everyone from Wild Bill Hickock to George Armstrong Custer and is a gunslinger, a snake-oil salesman, and an Army scout. This is a solid blend of comedy and tragedy, with a strong statement to make about America's treatment of Native Americans without sermonizing. A terrific cast includes Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, and Richard Mulligan. But this show is all Hoffman's. --Marshall Fine

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The only thing better than the movie is the book.......2007-06-27

The only thing better than the movie is the book. A classic and the book offers much more than ANY movie can offer - still a great movie.

Is that you, Dustin??.......2007-04-11

Filmed in Montana, I was around it some of the time. Very authentic, battle ground of Little Big Horn scenes were amazing. Very well done, enjoyed it very much, even if I weren't a Montana native. Great history in a dramatic story.

Hard to find.......2007-01-23

This was a gift for my father in law, I bought him the book to go along with it.

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A Great Introduction to the Old West.......2007-01-19

Little Big Man was filmed in Montana, California and Alberta Canada, with the help of the Crow, Cheyenne and Stony Nations. It's always a little reassuring when they film a movie about Indians and include Indians in its making. You would hope that the native Americans would have incentive to support a correct storyline.

This epic movie is based on an epic novel, and as usual when you try to convert a novel, you have to do things differently in the movie version to catch the audience's attention. This isn't bad or good, it's just a different medium with different needs. A painting of a waterfall will be different than a written description of it. It would have taken a mini-series to allow the novel to play out fully.

The story consists of a long recollection of Jack, almost 120, and his years of moving between the white and Indian worlds. As this is a review with narration, you get some foreshadowing, some exaggeration, and touches of humor. The movie is billed as a comedy, and everyone (including the narrator) is flawed. This isn't glossed over or hidden; it's just laid out as the way things are. Here's the story, in all of its convoluted twistedness.

When Jack is ten, his family is crossing the plains in a wagon. They are attacked and slain by the Pawnee. Only he and his sister survive. Luckily, a Cheyenne brave comes along and takes pity on them, bringing both back to his village. As with many Indian tribes, the Cheyenne name in their language means "human beings". Jack's sister, a young teen, is convinced she's going to be raped - but nobody tries. She takes off, abandoning her little brother. He doesn't mind - he's adopted and treated very well. You see throughout the story that this kid does what he has to in order to stay alive, to fit into what is going on. Jack gets his name Little Big Man when he slays an attacking Pawnee. He's still only about 11.

Soon the Cheyenne are enraged by the US Army's wanton slaying of innocents and war against them - but it doesn't work out well. The Cheyenne try hitting the Army with sticks - "taking coup" to get victory without killing them - but the army of course is shooting to kill. Jack, to save himself, shows the soldiers he's white - and we start with his life as a white man.

Jack is taken in by a pair of "cultured Christians" and the wife immediately begins going after him. Disillusioned, he joins up with a snake oil salesman, who Jack feels is "more honest". After a tarring and feathering, Jack's found by his sister who trains him in the ways of snake-eyed shooting. Soon he's the Soda Pop Kid, talking with Wild Bill. Jack realizes killing people isn't for him - and when he gets rid of his guns, his sister deserts him (again). So he settles down in a store with a Swedish wife - but they're taken in by swindlers and soon are destitute and heading west. He meets Custer just before they go, and are attacked by "wild Indians" on the coach ride. His wife is stolen, and Jack spends three years trying to find her, tracking across many states. He runs into his old tribe along the way.

So back to Indian culture. You might think after all whites being shown as slimy cheats, that a movie tends to either be "pro Indian" or "anti Indian". This one straddles the fence. The Indians don't want to take Jack back in at first. You get glimpses of one Indian who walks, talks and does everything backwards ... while another, Little Horse, is very effeminate, in essence a transvestite. While the Cheyenne are monogamous, Jack's father has a dream where Jack has four wives. They're deliberately not showing a 'quiet happy Indian tribe' - they're making a strong attempt to show "unusual" Indians here!

Jack joins the Custer forces to try to continue his search for his wife - but the troop ends up slaying innocent Indian women and children and Jack rebels against them. As the elder Jack comments in his narration, "The world was too ridiculous to bother to live in it". But then redemption comes - Jack finds a Cheyenne young woman giving birth and takes the pair in as his own. His grandfather convinces the family to stay with the Cheyenne. Jack's wife, Sunshine, starts to lay a guilt trip on Jack on how her sisters are lonely and have no husbands and she wants to bring them "into the family". About the same time, Jack realizes that his first wife, Olga, now is living with the Cheyenne, so he stops worrying about her. To add to his sexual woes, Jack is propositioned by Little Horse.

As his wife trudges off, alone, in the snow to have her baby solo (the "Indian way"), Jack gives in to temptation and goes into his teepee with the three sisters. This is one of the scenes that bugged me. I'm OK with the idea that Jack regularly switches sides to get out of trouble and easily falls into drunkenness / taking advantage of people / etc. He's not perfect, none of us are. But for him to sleep with three other women while his wife is in labor because it's "the Indian way" is a bit much. Especially when the Cheyenne way is monogamy, and the Indian way is to care about those you're joined with.

Just as Jack is getting used to this decadent way of life, in comes the army. On an Indian reservation, where the Indians should be protected, the army shoots and slaughters everyone - women, children, ponies. But when Jack has the opportunity shortly afterwards to kill Custer, Jack doesn't have the courage. Custer realizes this and puts him down as not a worthy Cheyenne - and not worth hanging either. Jack collapses into despair.

Wild Bill runs into the drunken Jack and tries to clean him up. In short order, Jack runs into just about every other character he'd known, gets ready to commit suicide, and sees the army. He decides his quest is to kill Custer. Custer recognizes him as the renegade and decides to hire him as a scout - and to do the exact opposite of anything Jack tells him to do. Apparently Custer wanted just "one more victory" and felt he'd then get elected president. In a Forrest Gump moment (just like the entire movie, pretty much), Jack tells Custer to go get himself killed at Little Big Horn, that it's doom for him. Custer chooses to believe Jack is lying, and we know the rest.

The movie ends on a somber note - Jack's grandfather prepares to die, and in essence states that the entire Cheyenne nation is doomed to destruction. For a "comedy", it's got some pretty serious messages in it, tucked in between the corners. The key is to realize that this is the glossy, Hollywood version of the story. You're getting the storyline, and a few glimpses into the cultures involved. They're putting up caricatures in many cases, because the past-100 man telling the story is ... telling a story. Hopefully this will tweak the interest of many viewers, so that they get the more in depth view the book offers, or they go on to learn more about the real Native American cultures which offer so much.

All things considered it is among the best.......2007-01-10

Each supporting character is strong and memorable as is the principal character Jack himself. His many phases of individual interaction brings on increasing interest as he struggles all through the West. This film brings out Dustin Hoffman's earliest performance and sets the scene for all those that follow. Pathos, pride, pity, pettiness as well as pretty darn good are his many moods of Jack. You cannot go wrong with Native American philosophy coupled with White American sensuality. M-m-m-m good.

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This is the greatest musical of all time!
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Paint Your Wagon
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Starring: Ben Baker , Alan Baxter , Sue Casey , Alan Dexter , and Robert Easton
Manufacturer: Paramount
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ASIN: B00003CXBX
Release Date: 2001-07-24

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This film and Hello Dolly were the knockout blows to the studio movie musical, but Paint doesn't deserve its tarnished name. Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) takes the model of a rakish derelict to an unequaled high as a prospector who teams up with a greenhorn named Pardner (Clint Eastwood), and they both end up marrying the same scorned woman (Jean Seberg). No-Name City, the prospecting town they found, is Sodom and Gomorrah without the camels, and a vision of humanity left to its own devices. The songs are mostly wonderful melodies from Lerner and Loewe, with definite high points, notably "They Call the Wind Maria" and "Wand'rin' Star." Clint Eastwood always gets flack for his versions of "I Still See Elisa" and "I Talk to the Trees," but that scorn is equally undeserved. Perhaps Paint's biggest sin, in retrospect, was trying to combine the aesthetics of the musical with the aesthetics of the male protagonists' world-weary machismo. Not the easiest task, but Paint pulls it off. --Keith Simanton

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This is the greatest musical of all time!.......2007-07-03

Hahahahahaha... The last person to review this movie has no clue about quality entertainment. I for one will watch this movie with my children and enjoy every crass moment with them... Like When Ben takes the Mormon boy to become a man at the local cat house...hahahaha... "Ooooh apple jack eeyyyy!" Hahahahaha...The lines in this and the comical delivery is spot on...hahaha Enjoy the movie for what it is and keep your pie hole shut...haha

Keep out of reach of children.......2007-07-02

I hate this movie. Boring plot, unlikable characters, horrible songs, obscene language, too many reasons why I hate the film. The filmmakers must've been out of their minds to produce this filth! Stay away from this trash, I mean it!

Paint Your Wagon.......2007-06-27

This DVD I received was flawed. I have tried to view it on 3 different DVD players and the picture breaks up every time. I really need to know how to return it.

Western Musical with ModernThemes.......2007-06-15

I was so happy when I watched this film for the first time because it was able to create both an entertaining story and one with a deeper meaning directed at society. It is much more scandalous than the Broadway version of this musical, but I think that makes its impact bigger. There are also very few musicals that exist that cater to both men and women. So, for those women out there who want to have a musical that you can watch with your boyfriend without him complaining that it is too girlie, then this a good choice. Enjoy!

Great entertainment.......2007-04-14

A wonderful western with a wry sense of humor. Where else can you hear both Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin sing solos? Not meant for very young kids but is hilarious with a great ending.

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