Customer Reviews

MTV's The Tom Green Show Uncensored

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

 

 

Hi!

This is my review of the Tom Green show MTV issued video "Uncensored," which SHOULD have been titled "Behind the Scenes and Boring Interviews With the Cast, Producers, and Anyone Who's Directly or Indirectly Involved with The Tom Green Show."

It is what I have just said. This is the SAME EXACT thing MTV broadcast during their "uncensored" week, and it is DEFINATELY NOT uncensored.

If, however, you are interested in what exactly goes into the Tom Green Show, you might enjoy this! It's insightful, thoughtful and contains very few actualy full skits from the show, and even LESS unreleased/uncensored video!

For a better view of TRUE uncensored (for the most part) Tom Green, check out "Something Smells Funny," or "Tonsil Hockey," also available on Amazon.com.

This is soely my opinion. I LOVE the Tom Green Show, and have been following it for years (quit laughing!), but this is just another ploy for MTV to make some money. Well, they got mine.

--Drake

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those Tom Green haters. In fact, hes one of my favorite celebrities and I happen to think that he is a comedic genius. Unfortunately, I have to give this DVD 2 stars and that is all that it deserves.

The title is completely misleading, Tom Green Uncensored. I would have to say Tom is only shown in about 35% of this movie, and the rest of it are his producers telling us about the show. About the uncensored part, everything that has been shown bleeped out on MTV is still very much CENSORED on this movie.

Not once is a segment from his real show seen on this in its entirerty, and some of his funniest segments aren't even on here. And for a DVD, this is some of the worst sound i have ever heard, even on VHS!

Sadly, all of you Tom Green fanatics like me out there will have to wait for something more representative of this crazy and hilarious Canadian to actually warrant a purchase.

Okay, I just got this DVD today not from amazon.com, but from a local retail DVD/CD reseller. I'm posting this as a cautionary warning to anyone considering buying this DVD. I can only say this: Don't buy it. Save your money. MTV shows their true colors with this release. It's nothing but producers talking about tom green like he's the ultimate king of comedy right up there with jerry lewis, red foxx, johnny carson, etc. Don't get me wrong: I find tom green very VERY funny and his skits have left me rolling and clutching my abs in pain from the laughter. What's wrong with the DVD??? First, the menu is stupid and the colors so bright and diluted that I thought I needed 3-D glasses in order to see the different options/destinations. Second, the people involved with the tom green show interrupt every damn segment with voice-overs and the like. Thirdly, alot of segments are edited down and portions are fuzzed out and bleeped. Seriously, MTV is a huge corporate double-standard. Even back in 2000 they were showing all sorts of teens acting a fool on "the real world" and rap videos promoting violence, yet "MTV studios" can't release an UNEDITED VIDEO/DVD? Excuse me? MTV, who are you trying to protect? Get real! Furthermore, the "hidden features" show VERY short edits from some of tom green's skits. Example: imagine my delight when I clicked on an easter egg to see the "piggy" sketch which is tom being .....tom, and doing a gregorian chant about the 'piggy' and the 'piggy goes down the hill' all the while he's staring and mugging for the camera. Hilarious and devestatingly funny. I laughed and actually applauded...then stopped when they STOPPED 1 MIN. INTO THE SEGMENT and faded back to the menu. Wait, you mean to tell me that MTV could'nt be bothered with including the whole damn thing? What, time was running out like on a VHS tape? Also the segment where tom brings home that homeless woman and tells his parents she's engaged to him. They stopped halfway though and never told you the outcome. The worst DVD I have ever bought and I will be returning the DVD tomorrow. The people behind this DVD are just out to get your money, don't give it to them! Lazy crummy layout and editing and production. It would have been SO easy to just show the clips in their entirety THEN give you the option of voice overs/commentaries but apparently MTV could'nt find the time or just did'nt care. Plus the sound fades in and out and the laughable "rock" back music rises up and down and sometimes drowns out the people speaking! Cheap crap of the lowest denomination. Tom Green deserves better and I know he was'nt behind this at all. No, it's MTV cashing in on their property and trying to make a quick buck. Avoid at all costs. *ZERO STARS* F-

This DVD has a totally misleading title. It is fully censored, and to top it off, the cast keeps interrupting the skits being showed. Seriously, let me get you straigt--the cast commentary is not all that bad, and some viewers may actually be intereseted in it--but the fact of the matter is that they spend more time on interviewing the cast then showing the skits. To make matters NOT ONE SKIT IS SHOWN IN ITS ENTIRETY. You will see more if you watch the show on TV. You will sit down to watch this video and think "well, they still bleep out all the words and blur the ... , but at least I have some of the funny skits on tape" WRONG. You will see your favorite skits WITH SUBSTANTIAL PORTIONS MISSING. Each skit is only about half as long as it would be if it was airing on MTV itself. I am much dismayed ... .

This is the worst. There are no segments. Totally forgettable. And it's people talking about episodes without the episodes, and none of these people you care about. If anything, this would be an "extra" included on the DVD collection of episodes, not a DVD in itself. MTV bites.. I am so happy he left them. I cannot give it 0 stars, so the one star goes to the DVD interface. It was the only thing laughable about the DVD.

MTV should be sued for false advertising based on the fact that this video is anything but uncensored. Words are bleeped out and items on-screen are blurred so you can't see them. It all makes me wonder just what the producers thought was so "uncensored" about this enterprise. To add to the sense of rip-off, several of the bits featured here are the exact same ones seen on the "Best of" video, with the added annoyance that they get constantly interrupted so that cast and crew can yammer on and on about how wild and crazy the whole situation was ... well, no kidding!

The only redeeming feature is the Fabio segment, which would have been much better of course if it had been able to run in totality without the interrupting commentary.

Thumbs down. You'd be better off taping Tom's show with your home VCR.

Tom Green has many home videos out now, most of them being very popular. However, this one is different from the rest, thus the poor reviews. This is NOT a collection of his comedy sketches on MTV. It is rather a documentary about his show on MTV, a "behind the scenes" special. It doesn't include Tom, but has the cast of the show telling what it was like to work with Tom, and what some of the skits were like to film.

This is not for the casual Tom Green fan, or for anyone looking for funny skits to watch. Its rather a behind the scenes feature that shows what its like to have a show such as The Tom Green Show. This film DOES include many small clips of skits he has performed, which adds much variety to the mix. Buy this is you're a big Tom Green fan, or even if you're interested in seeing what a talk show is like, behind the scenes. It really lets you understand the comedy behind Tom Green.

Don't be fooled by the title of this video, "Uncensored." It is NOT uncensored. It's only a video getting a behind-the-scenes perspective on the show. It shows already seen sketches with crew members discussing them. They're all censored, just like on the show. Unless this is what you want, this video isn't nearly as good as all of Tom Green's previous releases.

This movie should be called Tom Green behind the scenes. It has the producers and crew that work on the show and talk about their experiences with Tom and funny things that happen behind the scenes. This is a great movie. It is hilarious and shows funny stuff that didn't make it to TV. I consider myself Tom Green's #1 fan and i reccommend this movie. If you too are a fan you should buy this now!

Hey, I've been a BIG Tom Green fan from day one. I can remember what it was like when he still lived in Ottawa, Canada....and he did a very independent show on a Canadian network, writing and filming it himself....with a little help from his friends. AND...it was already UNCENSORED!.....The whole show was completely raw until MTV bought it, and turned it into a mockery of what it used to be. And Now My Video Summery..........

I can't believe those writers and editors at MTV. They talk as though they came up with the whole idea of the "Tom Green Show" and they never ONCE mention the many years of FUNNIER success he had in Canada. Oh yeah....and what's with all the interviews?....I thought this video was called "Tom Green Uncensored", not "Behind The Scenes Of MTV" I have nothing against Americans, but you people will never experience Tom Green like we experienced him in Canada, when he was at his prime, completely raw and insane!!!!!

Tom........We Miss You!