Product Details

• Actors: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Rachel Weisz, Amy Poehler, Christopher Walken
• Directors: Barry Levinson
• Writers: Steve Adams
• Producers: Barry Levinson, Josh McLaglen, Larry David, Mary McLaglen, Paula Weinstein
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Dreamworks Video
• VHS Release Date: September 28, 2004
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (90 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002C7P9U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #260,307 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cool movie if you like poop, November 28, 2004

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Kolors "Jimmy" (Pocatello, Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Envy (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

The funniest parts of this movie come in the first couple of scenes with Tim (Ben Stiller) and Nick (Jack Black)going to and from work. The dialogue between them just cracked me up about the tasting of each others pants and "Do you ever just watch your hand?" Funniest parts of the whole movie. Soon thereafter, I realized the engine that was to drive the comedy in this movie was centered around making poop disappear, I knew this film was in trouble.
After the age of 8 or 9 I didn't find anything about poop to be that funny anymore. Unfortunately with the screenwriter of this movie, that wasn't the case. I think the whole "Envy" story could've been easily driven by somthing else. There's funnier things out there than poop.
As far as the acting goes, Ben Stiller and Jack Black did all they could for this movie. Their preformances were fine, so no fault on thier part(except for the fact that they agreed to do this movie). Same goes for Christopher Walken.
To go along with this bad movie is a crappy (no pun intended) DVD. There's a scene index of Black's funniest moments in the movie. Who cares? I just watched it. If I really cared enough about it to see the funniest moments again, I'd torture myself by watching it again. There's also a photo gallery (we all know that's boring) and cast and crew bios. And some production notes. I would just rather them not have any special features so I don't have to waste my time.
In closing, this movie is just a result of a bad and ridiculous idea. Does Hollywood really think we'd find this funny?

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I loved the movie, but I guess i'm strange, February 5, 2007

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Travis Dockweiler "tdockweiler" (kalamazoo, mi USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Envy (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

I rented this movie one day without having known a single thing about the movie. I read no reviews and all I knew about the movie is who directed it. I like the director's films and the two people in it.

I personally enjoyed the movie and found it quite funny. Even laugh out loud funny. Yes, you read that right. I'm not an idiot and like all kinds of movies and am pretty picky. I have to admit I might have a weird sense of humour.

Anyway, this isn't much of a review. I saw the movie and liked it so much that I immediately rewatched it! That night I checked rotten tomatoes (Review site) and was shocked to find that the movie was totally rotten! I felt a little embarrassed that I liked the movie that much, but who cares!

All my friends hate the movie and think it's garbage. Probably 1/10 people would actually like the movie. Possibly. I just know that I loaned the movie to my mother and she loved it as well! No, we are not a family of idiots as you may be thinking! We also don't smoke drugs.

This is one of those movies I love that everyone else in the world seems to hate. I'm sure you'd had that happen before.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as it should be, July 31, 2004

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Eric Charles (Ottawa, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Envy (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

I read the bad reviews before going to see this movie. I refused to belive it when they said that there were no laughs to be found within the first half hour. They were right. The theatre I saw it in was stone cold silent for that time-seriously!! No one was laughing, not even me.

This goes to show how vastly underused the cast of this movie was, especially with solid actors like Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Christopher Walken, Rachel Weisz and SNL's Amy Poehler, who are all usually hilarious! That being said, Envy is a cute comedy that has some minor laughs and even a few good laughs. Unfortunately, the good laughs are a little too few and far between to make this a great movie. It is still watchable, though.

Also, in several scenes, the boom mikes are very plainly in view. I dont' just mean the tops either, I mean the entire mikes! Maybe the studio just didnt' care. We'll see if the DVD rectifies this.

Watch this movie if you must, but keep your expectations way low.