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Drop Dead Sexy

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This is a cross between a fun-loving NATIONAL LAMPOON party flick and a black comedy. I'm still un-decided exactly where it fits in between the two. The story is certainly an interesting concept, albeit creepy. Melissa Keller is certainly sexy and the few sequences where she is "alive" are quite memorable. However, these scenes could have been done better, if you ask me.

If you're into comedies about people who brush up against the mob (or mobster-like characters), this one might be worth a watch. If you have a morbid sense of humor this one might also be worth checking out.

This movie features Crispin Glover (an undertaker) and Jason Lee (an unemployed used car salesman) as two smalltime crooks looking to make a big score to get out of a small town in texas, and get to big time las vegas. Sure enough, these two have all the man power, but non of the luck and brains to get it done...or are they being under estimated. There is a lot of dark humor, and has several funny moments, but just not a consistent flow. This could have been more, but wasn't. Good to watch once, but then return it for others to see.

So you're a big fan of Crispin Glover, especially in his wilder and more eccentric roles. And you like Jason Lee.

But... this sounds like it could be a really dumb, banal comedy. And the reviews aren't so hot. So should you bother with it?

That's what I was mulling over before I finally bit the bullet and rented it. And I'm glad I did.

First and foremost, Glover and Lee are fantastic. They carry the movie. They're in top form here, and they create two wonderful bozo characters.

There is some very funny material, and some great, even classic, lines. I laughed out loud several times. And the story zips right along, doesn't get tedious or slow.

Having said that, it's a pretty conventional, routine storyline, despite many detours into inspired craziness. And some of it is kinda dumb or obvious.

This isn't risky or edgy material. But it is fun, funny viewing, with outstanding weirdo performances by Glover and Lee.

Jason Lee and Crispin Glover play two small-time crooks in a small-time Texas town (that looks remarkably like Austin). They dig up a dead woman to steal her necklace and end up "kidnapping" her and holding her for ransom from her husband. Supposedly, hilarity ensues, but I must have missed that part.

Crispin Glover creates a very believable, original, and funny small-town hick, but it feels like Jason Lee isn't even trying, and the movie definitely suffers from that.

There's a good amount of gratuitous nudity in several scenes that take place in the local strip club (The Mean-Eyed Pussy Cat) and even in the morgue. If you're looking for nudity go for this movie. If you're looking for anything else, don't bother.

Overall this movie moves along slowly and without too many laughs. I checked it out because it was filmed in Austin and I was interested, but it's really not worth the time.

The story isn't very interesting. I like Jason Lee from other shows and movie, but this one he was just okay. I don't like Crispin Glover character and I think he was weird. All I liked about this movie were the HOT girls. But even that didn't save this movie from a 1 star.

This movie is a dark comedy. It is funny, and it stars Jason Lee (My name is Earl, Memphis Beat) and Spider, one of the bad guys, is played by charactor actor Pruitt Taylor Vince, who is so good in any role he takes on. (Most recently LaRoche on the Mentalist, also Heavy, Legend of 1900, too many other roles to list.) It was worth it to my family to buy it and spend an evening watching.

Even though I'm a big Jason Lee fan, I've been avoiding this movie. I find its premise offensive. Well, Lionsgate has put the entire movie on YouTube. You can watch the whole thing for free, all in one shot. So I finally couldn't resist.

It's a little more interesting and funny than I expected. I especially like Crispin Glover as Eddie, the dim, kind-hearted gravedigger who really doesn't want any part of his buddy Frank's schemes. When Frank (Jason Lee) messes up a job he's doing for a very bad guy named Spider (Pruitt Taylor Vince), he needs to come up with $250K to pay him back. He decides to dig up the body of a beautiful rich woman to steal and sell a necklace she was wearing. This being a comedy, Eddie and Frank are unable to put the body back in the grave, so they're stuck with her.

Frank decides to make the most of the situation by asking her husband for ransom. The scheme looks like it might work, and meanwhile, some interesting connections show up between the woman and Spider.

The movie is offensive partly because of the treatment of the deceased woman but also because of the treatment of women in general. Almost all the women are strippers or otherwise sex objects. Glover's Eddie gives the film its heart and even a moral compass as he genuinely likes the strippers he frequently visits and he's also protective of the body he and Frank have kidnapped, trying to treat it with more respect than Frank does. In fact, if it weren't for Eddie, I'm not sure I could have sat through the movie.

I hate to say it, but much as I love Jason Lee, I think he was the weak link in this movie. His Frank basically yells his lines at Eddie, coming across something like an immature Brodie from "Mallrats," when something more along the lines of his Azrael from "Dogma" would have been more appropriate. I'm sure he could have created an interesting character, the kind of guy who is sleazy enough to think nothing of digging up a body while being interesting and even a bit likeable. But I never really bought his character as the kind of guy who would do a job for a guy like Spider or think nothing of digging up a body to make money (Frank doesn't seem to think it's a big deal and gives Eddie a hard time when he objects).

But if you're still wanting to spend your money on this, just look it up on YouTube and save yourself a few bucks.

I bought this movie to add to my Crispin Glover movie collection. I thought that it had a few good laughs in it and very likable main characters. Both Crispin Glover and Jason Lee were great-but Crispin carried it for sure. It was a little dark but not over the top. I would recommend it to anyone looking for an interesting and kinda cute movie night movie. Four stars.

It seems like Drop Dead Sexy started out with an interesting idea for a dark comedy, but ran aground somewhere in the writing process. The plot holes, awkward characters, and rather thin resolution make me wonder if money ran out somewhere along the way and the script was hastily finished and/or doctored up to get the movie released quickly.

Jason Lee is surprisingly flat as the main character. I am guessing the problem is, again, more in the writing than the actor since Lee is doing a great job playing another hapless loser in My Name Is Earl. Crispin Glover was probably the only consistently funny character in the movie (and is really the only reason I give this movie any stars at all). His innate awkwardness lends a special humor to a role that could have otherwise been played as the naive idiot sidekick.

Drop Dead Sexy isn't without its funny moments, most coming from the interactions between Lee and Glover, but it does suffer from lowbrow humor (e.g. the running joke about a gay biker named Tiny) that actually feels like an afterthought. In better hands this could have been a great dark comedy and possibly a cult classic, but instead it will probably languish as a trashy comedy stuck next to Dorm Daze in the local Blockbuster.

A friend recommended this movie to me, but I can't say the same. The online reviews kind of make it out to be a black comedy like 'Fargo' (did these people even see that movie??). But it's really just a poorly written/directed rip-off of 'Weekend At Bernies'. Turned it off after a half-hour.