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Ron Burgandy gets tiring after awhile
Will Ferrell (Old School, Elf), Paul Rudd (Wet Hot American Summer, The Cider House Rules), David Koechner (Bruce Almighty, Tv's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), Christina Applegate (Tv's Married With Children, A View From The Top)and Fred Willard (Best In Show, How High) star in this movie about Legandary Anchorman Ron Burgandy. There are a lot of raunchy and disgusting things in this movie that really pull it down but it's main punch is those little clever jokes on the side. Examples are when Ferrell is talking to his dog. The anchormen brawl in the alley. All the anchorguys singing. If your a fan of Ferrell's then go see this, you wont be dissapointed. Actors who make guest cameos are the following: Luke Wilson (Old School, Alex and Emma), Vince Vaughn (Dodgeball,Swingers) , Jack Black (School Of Rock, High Fiedelity), Tim Robbins (Mystic River, The Truth About Charlie), Danny Trejo (Spy Kids, Once Upon A Time In Mexico) and for the love of god, this man should take a break from making movies, Ben Stiller (Dodgeball, Zoolander).

im storming your castle my lady with my great steed (best line)
I think that's how it went but it was a funny one liner

Absurbly Funny
Seeing the words: 'starring Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate' gave me the clue that I would be watching another golden performance from Ferrell himself. But I was still not prepared for how over-the-top and idiotic this film was.

On the other hand, however, I laughed the better portion of my head off - and so did most of the audience. And, when you think about it, that's not a bad way to spend a good 90 minutes in a dark movie cinema, is it?

The film tells the tale of Ron Burgundy, a vain, ridiculous, fictional San Diego television news personality in 1976 who's the #1 network news anchor in the local ratings and presumably based on 70s anchor Harold Green. A billboard says it all: 'If Ron Burgundy says it - it's true.'

He leads a pompous, sexist group consisting of redneck alpha-male sportscaster Champ Kind, played by David Koechner, sleazy Geraldo Rivera-like ladies man in Brain Fantana, played by Paul Rudd, and moronic weatherman, Brick Tamland, played by Steve Carrell, who rebel against the station's manager, Ed Harkin (Fred Willard) when a beautiful woman, Veronica Corningstone, played by Christina Applegate is brought in for diversity's sake.

Burgundy thinks diversity means an old, wooden Civil War ship, but soon falls for the blonde, curvacious former star of Married With Children head over heels.

Unfortunately, a run-in with a burrito, Jack Black on a motorcycle and Burgundy's pet pooch on the Coronado Bridge changes the newsman's life - for the worst (which results on a great scene). With Corningstone's star on the rise and Burgundy in decline, he falls into a three-month drunken stupor (on milk, no less) before an opportunity comes along to change his fortunes.

Like his previous turns in Old School and Elf, as well as most of his characters on Saturday Night Live, Ferrell is as hilarious in his addled simplicity and gives a very good comedic performance capturing the misogyny and ignorance of many 1970s male chauvinist pseudo-celebrities, especially those who populated local TV and radio stations before cable came along.

The silliness of the wild leisure suits, white shoes, overstarched hair, sideburns and mustaches is only matched by the gang fight scene in which Burgundy's group goes up against the likes of other newsmen, including Vince Vaughn, Luke Wilson, Ben Stiller and, of all people, Tim Robbins.

Though it sweetly preaches acceptance and equality, McKay's scattershot comedy is primarily founded on the premise that there's nothing funnier than dialogue strewn with ludicrously illogical lines, such as Burgundy, grief stricken over the sudden murder of his beloved Spanish-speaking dog Baxter (who he refers to as "a miniature Buddha covered in hair"), screaming to his friend from a phone booth, "I'm in a glass case of emotion!" Carell's brain-dead Brick randomly exclaims about women "I read somewhere that their menstruation attracts bears!" and Burgundy's vain crew engages in a weapon-filled rumble with Vince Vaughn's competing, second-rated local broadcast team in which the only rule is "No touching of the hair or face." Anchorman's satiric skewering of the era's fashion, cheeky optimism, and sexism occasionally grows a bit stale, but it's hard to keep a straight face when somebody thinks San Diego means "a whale's vagina."

hilarious!
this movie was awesome! it is extremly funny and enjoyable. anyone who likes comedies, will love this!!

Scotchy, scotch, scotch...
I went to see this with no more expectation for this movie, than to have some good laughs and on that, Anchorman delivered. I liked that it was set in the 70's and in San Diego! No place I would have rather grown up in the 70's, than in SoCal! :)) Great music too!

Once again, some Amazon reviewers are too serious. If you actually go to this movie intending to see something with a deep plot or soul shaking message, you will be disappointed! Go rent the Mel Gibson/Jesus movie for that!

oh shut up
i thought this was a really funny movie. And i dont lead a shallow life. You may walk out thinking that it was odd but then you begin remembering all of the funny stuff that happened. If you like Will Ferre then you like Will Ferrel, adn if you dont, then why did you even go see the movie? dorks! ... Read more

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Ron Burgandy gets tiring after awhile
Will Ferrell (Old School, Elf), Paul Rudd (Wet Hot American Summer, The Cider House Rules), David Koechner (Bruce Almighty, Tv's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), Christina Applegate (Tv's Married With Children, A View From The Top)and Fred Willard (Best In Show, How High) star in this movie about Legandary Anchorman Ron Burgandy. There are a lot of raunchy and disgusting things in this movie that really pull it down but it's main punch is those little clever jokes on the side. Examples are when Ferrell is talking to his dog. The anchormen brawl in the alley. All the anchorguys singing. If your a fan of Ferrell's then go see this, you wont be dissapointed. Actors who make guest cameos are the following: Luke Wilson (Old School, Alex and Emma), Vince Vaughn (Dodgeball,Swingers) , Jack Black (School Of Rock, High Fiedelity), Tim Robbins (Mystic River, The Truth About Charlie), Danny Trejo (Spy Kids, Once Upon A Time In Mexico) and for the love of god, this man should take a break from making movies, Ben Stiller (Dodgeball, Zoolander).

im storming your castle my lady with my great steed (best line)
I think that's how it went but it was a funny one liner

Absurbly Funny
Seeing the words: 'starring Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate' gave me the clue that I would be watching another golden performance from Ferrell himself. But I was still not prepared for how over-the-top and idiotic this film was.

On the other hand, however, I laughed the better portion of my head off - and so did most of the audience. And, when you think about it, that's not a bad way to spend a good 90 minutes in a dark movie cinema, is it?

The film tells the tale of Ron Burgundy, a vain, ridiculous, fictional San Diego television news personality in 1976 who's the #1 network news anchor in the local ratings and presumably based on 70s anchor Harold Green. A billboard says it all: 'If Ron Burgundy says it - it's true.'

He leads a pompous, sexist group consisting of redneck alpha-male sportscaster Champ Kind, played by David Koechner, sleazy Geraldo Rivera-like ladies man in Brain Fantana, played by Paul Rudd, and moronic weatherman, Brick Tamland, played by Steve Carrell, who rebel against the station's manager, Ed Harkin (Fred Willard) when a beautiful woman, Veronica Corningstone, played by Christina Applegate is brought in for diversity's sake.

Burgundy thinks diversity means an old, wooden Civil War ship, but soon falls for the blonde, curvacious former star of Married With Children head over heels.

Unfortunately, a run-in with a burrito, Jack Black on a motorcycle and Burgundy's pet pooch on the Coronado Bridge changes the newsman's life - for the worst (which results on a great scene). With Corningstone's star on the rise and Burgundy in decline, he falls into a three-month drunken stupor (on milk, no less) before an opportunity comes along to change his fortunes.

Like his previous turns in Old School and Elf, as well as most of his characters on Saturday Night Live, Ferrell is as hilarious in his addled simplicity and gives a very good comedic performance capturing the misogyny and ignorance of many 1970s male chauvinist pseudo-celebrities, especially those who populated local TV and radio stations before cable came along.

The silliness of the wild leisure suits, white shoes, overstarched hair, sideburns and mustaches is only matched by the gang fight scene in which Burgundy's group goes up against the likes of other newsmen, including Vince Vaughn, Luke Wilson, Ben Stiller and, of all people, Tim Robbins.

Though it sweetly preaches acceptance and equality, McKay's scattershot comedy is primarily founded on the premise that there's nothing funnier than dialogue strewn with ludicrously illogical lines, such as Burgundy, grief stricken over the sudden murder of his beloved Spanish-speaking dog Baxter (who he refers to as "a miniature Buddha covered in hair"), screaming to his friend from a phone booth, "I'm in a glass case of emotion!" Carell's brain-dead Brick randomly exclaims about women "I read somewhere that their menstruation attracts bears!" and Burgundy's vain crew engages in a weapon-filled rumble with Vince Vaughn's competing, second-rated local broadcast team in which the only rule is "No touching of the hair or face." Anchorman's satiric skewering of the era's fashion, cheeky optimism, and sexism occasionally grows a bit stale, but it's hard to keep a straight face when somebody thinks San Diego means "a whale's vagina."

hilarious!
this movie was awesome! it is extremly funny and enjoyable. anyone who likes comedies, will love this!!

Scotchy, scotch, scotch...
I went to see this with no more expectation for this movie, than to have some good laughs and on that, Anchorman delivered. I liked that it was set in the 70's and in San Diego! No place I would have rather grown up in the 70's, than in SoCal! :)) Great music too!

Once again, some Amazon reviewers are too serious. If you actually go to this movie intending to see something with a deep plot or soul shaking message, you will be disappointed! Go rent the Mel Gibson/Jesus movie for that!

oh shut up
i thought this was a really funny movie. And i dont lead a shallow life. You may walk out thinking that it was odd but then you begin remembering all of the funny stuff that happened. If you like Will Ferre then you like Will Ferrel, adn if you dont, then why did you even go see the movie? dorks! ... Read more

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Down with love? Up with this movie.
Down with love is such a cute movie. It is like a classic Doris Day movie with an Austin Powers flare. Really funny. Really cute. A must have for any movie collection.

Hysterical
This was like an old-fashioned romantic comedy, and a little bit sexier.

60s Retro Never Looked Better!
DOWN WITH LOVE, director Peyton Reed's homage/spoof of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedies of the early 60s, is a delightful bit of fluff in a movie season filled with inferior sequels and overwrought epics. Dazzling to watch, with Givenchy-inspired costumes (if Daniel Orlandi does not receive an Oscar for his work, his peers should turn in their Designer cards), wonderfully over-the-top sets (EVERYBODY in those 60s films lived in apartments you could land airplanes in), and a 'More 1963 New York than 1963 New York' look (created on the studio back lot, with ample support from CGI), the film would deserve a viewing even if the cast never uttered a line of dialog!

Fortunately, the script, by Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake, is wickedly funny, full of the politically incorrect double entendres that were as close as Hollywood could get to actual 'naughtiness', 30 years ago (and, yes, there are more than a few present that WOULD have been censored, even then). The story, of a woman who writes a best-selling 'self-help' book eschewing the necessity of men for any more than 'casual sex', and the 'Hugh Hefner'-like writer who turns his prodigious charms to work, in the guise of a naive astronaut, to win her love, and thus discredit her theories, would have fit Doris Day and Rock Hudson to a 'T'. While Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor lack their role models' charisma, they have a pleasant chemistry together, and the 'split-screen' phone call scenes between the pair are even racier than the Day/Hudson 60s versions.

If the leads seem a bit bland, the supporting cast more than makes up for any shortcomings. In a role that SHOULD garner a 'Supporting Actor' Oscar nomination, David Hyde Pierce takes on the part assumed by Tony Randall or Gig Young in those 60s farces, that of the put-upon, neurotic, sometimes prissy friend of the hero. He is superb, even SOUNDING like Tony Randall, and steals every scene he's in. His 'opposite number', friend of the heroine Sarah Paulson, while not quite at Pierce's level, is still quite funny as a chain-smoking career woman who would chuck it all for the right man. And, in a FABULOUS piece of casting, the MAN himself, Tony Randall, appears as the book publisher whose bestseller is RUINING his love life. At 83, the man can still toss off a funny line...

With a very inventive 'twist-within-a-twist' climax, and Marc Shaiman's evocative score punctuating the proceedings, DOWN WITH LOVE is a delight!

Among the additional features that make this DVD a plus for your collection are featurettes about the costume and set design (you can see the joy everyone felt, recreating the era they grew up in), two making-of documentaries, a VERY funny blooper reel (McGregor asks, after blowing a cue, "Who am I?" to which an off-screen voice replies, "Obi-Wan..."), deleted scenes (including one set in a beautifully artificial Central Park), and the musical number, 'Down with Love', sung and danced by Zellweger and McGregor in a mock 60s TV variety show set.

While I won't deny that DOWN WITH LOVE isn't for everyone, if you love a good sophisticated comedy, or those wonderful farces of Day and Hudson, I don't think you'll be disappointed!

Didn't like It
I didn't like Down with Love. The plot to me was to much like "How to lose a Guy in 10 Days."

I did like the acting in the movie though from our two stars. Renee and Ewan are both great actors and are both stars in there perspective countries.

This is more a chick flick. If thats your kind of movie you'll probaly like it. I just thought it resembled "How to Lose" to much and I could never get intersted. I'd watch this movie again, I just wouldn't buy it.

fun!
Okay, I am rating this 5 stars in its own right. Not against "Shawshank Redemption" or anything in an entirely other genre. Obviously I can't clasify this movie as unique (hi, it is keeping in the spirit of older movies such as "Pillow Talk"). However, it certainly is different in style for these days. It is a fun and satisfying viewing for sure. The performances are just the right amount of camp. This is a movie to pop in when looking for nothing more than a light good time. Who couldn't use that? If nothing else, the bright sets and costumes are worth staring at. They are art in themselves. There is a strong supporting cast, David Hyde Pierce always good for a laugh. Then there's Ewan, well, anyone that has seen some of his other off-beat works, you know he can pull this off very very well. I don't own this dvd as of yet (seeing that the street date isn't up yet) but the extras look better than the normal set of previews and some docu that is really just the actors between takes telling you the plot of the movie... as if you didn't just watch it. A lot of people I know didn't go to see this in the theater because they figured it looked shallow and silly. Of course it's silly, that is part of the fun. A little break from the norm. As for the simple shallowness of this movie... these same people probably went to see "Terminator 3" was that deep and profound? Yeah, okay then. ;) At any rate, I will stop my ramble. Just felt that this movie could use some boosts of support because it is worth a viewing and was under-valued in the theater. Also *and this is off the subject*, if you are a fan of well made off beat movies and dvds that have solid supplement... check out "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." ... Read more

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Ron Burgandy gets tiring after awhile
Will Ferrell (Old School, Elf), Paul Rudd (Wet Hot American Summer, The Cider House Rules), David Koechner (Bruce Almighty, Tv's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), Christina Applegate (Tv's Married With Children, A View From The Top)and Fred Willard (Best In Show, How High) star in this movie about Legandary Anchorman Ron Burgandy. There are a lot of raunchy and disgusting things in this movie that really pull it down but it's main punch is those little clever jokes on the side. Examples are when Ferrell is talking to his dog. The anchormen brawl in the alley. All the anchorguys singing. If your a fan of Ferrell's then go see this, you wont be dissapointed. Actors who make guest cameos are the following: Luke Wilson (Old School, Alex and Emma), Vince Vaughn (Dodgeball,Swingers) , Jack Black (School Of Rock, High Fiedelity), Tim Robbins (Mystic River, The Truth About Charlie), Danny Trejo (Spy Kids, Once Upon A Time In Mexico) and for the love of god, this man should take a break from making movies, Ben Stiller (Dodgeball, Zoolander).

im storming your castle my lady with my great steed (best line)
I think that's how it went but it was a funny one liner

Absurbly Funny
Seeing the words: 'starring Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate' gave me the clue that I would be watching another golden performance from Ferrell himself. But I was still not prepared for how over-the-top and idiotic this film was.

On the other hand, however, I laughed the better portion of my head off - and so did most of the audience. And, when you think about it, that's not a bad way to spend a good 90 minutes in a dark movie cinema, is it?

The film tells the tale of Ron Burgundy, a vain, ridiculous, fictional San Diego television news personality in 1976 who's the #1 network news anchor in the local ratings and presumably based on 70s anchor Harold Green. A billboard says it all: 'If Ron Burgundy says it - it's true.'

He leads a pompous, sexist group consisting of redneck alpha-male sportscaster Champ Kind, played by David Koechner, sleazy Geraldo Rivera-like ladies man in Brain Fantana, played by Paul Rudd, and moronic weatherman, Brick Tamland, played by Steve Carrell, who rebel against the station's manager, Ed Harkin (Fred Willard) when a beautiful woman, Veronica Corningstone, played by Christina Applegate is brought in for diversity's sake.

Burgundy thinks diversity means an old, wooden Civil War ship, but soon falls for the blonde, curvacious former star of Married With Children head over heels.

Unfortunately, a run-in with a burrito, Jack Black on a motorcycle and Burgundy's pet pooch on the Coronado Bridge changes the newsman's life - for the worst (which results on a great scene). With Corningstone's star on the rise and Burgundy in decline, he falls into a three-month drunken stupor (on milk, no less) before an opportunity comes along to change his fortunes.

Like his previous turns in Old School and Elf, as well as most of his characters on Saturday Night Live, Ferrell is as hilarious in his addled simplicity and gives a very good comedic performance capturing the misogyny and ignorance of many 1970s male chauvinist pseudo-celebrities, especially those who populated local TV and radio stations before cable came along.

The silliness of the wild leisure suits, white shoes, overstarched hair, sideburns and mustaches is only matched by the gang fight scene in which Burgundy's group goes up against the likes of other newsmen, including Vince Vaughn, Luke Wilson, Ben Stiller and, of all people, Tim Robbins.

Though it sweetly preaches acceptance and equality, McKay's scattershot comedy is primarily founded on the premise that there's nothing funnier than dialogue strewn with ludicrously illogical lines, such as Burgundy, grief stricken over the sudden murder of his beloved Spanish-speaking dog Baxter (who he refers to as "a miniature Buddha covered in hair"), screaming to his friend from a phone booth, "I'm in a glass case of emotion!" Carell's brain-dead Brick randomly exclaims about women "I read somewhere that their menstruation attracts bears!" and Burgundy's vain crew engages in a weapon-filled rumble with Vince Vaughn's competing, second-rated local broadcast team in which the only rule is "No touching of the hair or face." Anchorman's satiric skewering of the era's fashion, cheeky optimism, and sexism occasionally grows a bit stale, but it's hard to keep a straight face when somebody thinks San Diego means "a whale's vagina."

hilarious!
this movie was awesome! it is extremly funny and enjoyable. anyone who likes comedies, will love this!!

Scotchy, scotch, scotch...
I went to see this with no more expectation for this movie, than to have some good laughs and on that, Anchorman delivered. I liked that it was set in the 70's and in San Diego! No place I would have rather grown up in the 70's, than in SoCal! :)) Great music too!

Once again, some Amazon reviewers are too serious. If you actually go to this movie intending to see something with a deep plot or soul shaking message, you will be disappointed! Go rent the Mel Gibson/Jesus movie for that!

oh shut up
i thought this was a really funny movie. And i dont lead a shallow life. You may walk out thinking that it was odd but then you begin remembering all of the funny stuff that happened. If you like Will Ferre then you like Will Ferrel, adn if you dont, then why did you even go see the movie? dorks! ... Read more

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Down with love? Up with this movie.
Down with love is such a cute movie. It is like a classic Doris Day movie with an Austin Powers flare. Really funny. Really cute. A must have for any movie collection.

Hysterical
This was like an old-fashioned romantic comedy, and a little bit sexier.

60s Retro Never Looked Better!
DOWN WITH LOVE, director Peyton Reed's homage/spoof of the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedies of the early 60s, is a delightful bit of fluff in a movie season filled with inferior sequels and overwrought epics. Dazzling to watch, with Givenchy-inspired costumes (if Daniel Orlandi does not receive an Oscar for his work, his peers should turn in their Designer cards), wonderfully over-the-top sets (EVERYBODY in those 60s films lived in apartments you could land airplanes in), and a 'More 1963 New York than 1963 New York' look (created on the studio back lot, with ample support from CGI), the film would deserve a viewing even if the cast never uttered a line of dialog!

Fortunately, the script, by Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake, is wickedly funny, full of the politically incorrect double entendres that were as close as Hollywood could get to actual 'naughtiness', 30 years ago (and, yes, there are more than a few present that WOULD have been censored, even then). The story, of a woman who writes a best-selling 'self-help' book eschewing the necessity of men for any more than 'casual sex', and the 'Hugh Hefner'-like writer who turns his prodigious charms to work, in the guise of a naive astronaut, to win her love, and thus discredit her theories, would have fit Doris Day and Rock Hudson to a 'T'. While Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor lack their role models' charisma, they have a pleasant chemistry together, and the 'split-screen' phone call scenes between the pair are even racier than the Day/Hudson 60s versions.

If the leads seem a bit bland, the supporting cast more than makes up for any shortcomings. In a role that SHOULD garner a 'Supporting Actor' Oscar nomination, David Hyde Pierce takes on the part assumed by Tony Randall or Gig Young in those 60s farces, that of the put-upon, neurotic, sometimes prissy friend of the hero. He is superb, even SOUNDING like Tony Randall, and steals every scene he's in. His 'opposite number', friend of the heroine Sarah Paulson, while not quite at Pierce's level, is still quite funny as a chain-smoking career woman who would chuck it all for the right man. And, in a FABULOUS piece of casting, the MAN himself, Tony Randall, appears as the book publisher whose bestseller is RUINING his love life. At 83, the man can still toss off a funny line...

With a very inventive 'twist-within-a-twist' climax, and Marc Shaiman's evocative score punctuating the proceedings, DOWN WITH LOVE is a delight!

Among the additional features that make this DVD a plus for your collection are featurettes about the costume and set design (you can see the joy everyone felt, recreating the era they grew up in), two making-of documentaries, a VERY funny blooper reel (McGregor asks, after blowing a cue, "Who am I?" to which an off-screen voice replies, "Obi-Wan..."), deleted scenes (including one set in a beautifully artificial Central Park), and the musical number, 'Down with Love', sung and danced by Zellweger and McGregor in a mock 60s TV variety show set.

While I won't deny that DOWN WITH LOVE isn't for everyone, if you love a good sophisticated comedy, or those wonderful farces of Day and Hudson, I don't think you'll be disappointed!

Didn't like It
I didn't like Down with Love. The plot to me was to much like "How to lose a Guy in 10 Days."

I did like the acting in the movie though from our two stars. Renee and Ewan are both great actors and are both stars in there perspective countries.

This is more a chick flick. If thats your kind of movie you'll probaly like it. I just thought it resembled "How to Lose" to much and I could never get intersted. I'd watch this movie again, I just wouldn't buy it.

fun!
Okay, I am rating this 5 stars in its own right. Not against "Shawshank Redemption" or anything in an entirely other genre. Obviously I can't clasify this movie as unique (hi, it is keeping in the spirit of older movies such as "Pillow Talk"). However, it certainly is different in style for these days. It is a fun and satisfying viewing for sure. The performances are just the right amount of camp. This is a movie to pop in when looking for nothing more than a light good time. Who couldn't use that? If nothing else, the bright sets and costumes are worth staring at. They are art in themselves. There is a strong supporting cast, David Hyde Pierce always good for a laugh. Then there's Ewan, well, anyone that has seen some of his other off-beat works, you know he can pull this off very very well. I don't own this dvd as of yet (seeing that the street date isn't up yet) but the extras look better than the normal set of previews and some docu that is really just the actors between takes telling you the plot of the movie... as if you didn't just watch it. A lot of people I know didn't go to see this in the theater because they figured it looked shallow and silly. Of course it's silly, that is part of the fun. A little break from the norm. As for the simple shallowness of this movie... these same people probably went to see "Terminator 3" was that deep and profound? Yeah, okay then. ;) At any rate, I will stop my ramble. Just felt that this movie could use some boosts of support because it is worth a viewing and was under-valued in the theater. Also *and this is off the subject*, if you are a fan of well made off beat movies and dvds that have solid supplement... check out "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." ... Read more

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I laughed 'til it hurt
I can't remember the last time I laughed so long and so hard. At times, I was laughing so hard that I couldn't breathe. The rest of the time, I was merely laughing constantly.

This is a wacky, low-budget, straight-to-video film. However, it has good production values, and a few well known actors. And it succeeds where many similar films have failed. Mainly, it doesn't take itself seriously, and thus all cheesiness is purposely used for comedic effect, rather than being an effect of bad writing/acting. I especially liked how they didn't resort to the painful fish-out-of water theme that is common in these types of films; they didn't have any scenes where the aliens failed to comprehend the purpose of some unfamiliar device, and embarassed themselves by doing something inappropriate with it.

However, I realize that the type of humor in this movie won't appeal to everyone, so here's a simple litmus test. If you like wacky, off the wall humor such as:
- Monty Python
- Clerks: The Animated Series
- Invader Zim
- Excel Saga
- Steve Odekirk's Thumb parodies, such as Thumb Wars
Then you will like Evil Alien Conquerors.

so utterly STUPID that it's GREAT!!!!
"Evil Alien Conquerors" has gotten a lot of bad reviews from people who really don't get it... it was MEANT TO BE BAD. This movie is so utterly STUPID that you have to laugh at it - a LOT. Admittedly the first part of the movie drags some, but by the end, my entire family was laughing. I especially liked Kroeker making the walking noises everywhere he went, once he got to Earth.

Even if this movie is not your style, the theme song alone is worth the cost of a movie rental. We just finished watching "Evil Alien Conquerors" for the second time, and my children are running around the house singing the theme song, and pretending to be Kroeker.

Iolitesun
Okay movie and should be a big hit with smirnov ice fans. My three year old LOVES the theme song and is especially impressed with both Croger the 100' tall guy and Tori Spelling's unibrow so we're going to order a copy for him.

Imbued with Kabijjian Magnificence, Baby!
Best low budget comedy in years. Cleverly immature and riddled with great one-liners and sight gags. Pay no heed to the naysayers...this probably isn't their style of movie anyway. As a testament to the lowbrow quality of this movie, Tori Spelling (Jan the Unibrow) refused to appear in the credits. That makes it a keeper in my book. At the very least, rent this movie and behold the Kabijjian magnificence for yourself.

Enthuse for Rabirr!

Oh my oh my
This was not good comedy. Monty Python had real class and humor. The aliens, the dorky teenagers, the hairy feet, I mean "uni-brow"???? Come now, really. Glad I had a borrowed rental didn't cost a bit. Lots of fast forwarding on the remote, that's for sure!

:( ... Read more

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The delightful A Freezerburnt Christmas proves not every clay-animated holiday special is three decades old. This 1997 half-hour show is the clever tale of a bumbling ice cream vendor named Freezerburn, who stumbles onto evil toy tycoon Sualc Atnas's plot to sabotage Santa's reindeer-driven Christmas run, thus forcing parents to spend billions in stores. With the aid of penguin pal Chill as well as scientist (and love interest) Anna, Freezerburn heads to the North Pole to save the day. The stop-motion artistry is flawless, the sets and characters are exciting to behold, and the script is full of witty vignettes, such as Freezerburn's discouraging attempts to reach Santa via voice mail. Special features include a fascinating, child-friendly documentary about the making of A Freezerburnt Christmas. Among the vocal talent are three Saturday Night Live stars: Chris Parnell, Horation Sanz, and Darrell Hammond. --Tom Keogh ... Read more