Product Details

• Actors: Peter Gallagher, Suzy Amis, John C. McGinley, Jon Tenney, Cynthia Stevenson
• Directors: Tom Flynn
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: April 3, 2001
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302804825
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,800 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Peter Gallagher and Jon Tenney are a pair of cousins with some simmering resentments left from childhood, so when Gallagher moves back to Chicago and in with Tenney to sort his life out, he leaves himself open for a variety of dirty tricks. Tenney shares his house with other roommates where the watchwords are "watch it!"--meaning that everyone is fair game for increasingly cruel practical jokes. Some funny material gives Tom Sizemore and John C. McGinley, a couple of actors who don't usually get this kind of role, the chance to be both funny and sympathetic. Suzy Amis is also good as the girl who inspires increased rivalry between the cousins. Witty and enjoyable, if inconsequential. --Marshall Fine

From The New Yorker
The title of Tom Flynn's movie sounds like a publicity come-on; in fact it refers to a game played by the central characters who met at college and still share a house in Chicago. As played by Jon Tenney, John C. McGinley, and Tom Sizemore, they begin as frivolous, womanizing jocks, and "Watch It"-in which they plague each other with complex practical jokes-is the high point of their existence. They may be fun-loving, but Flynn's movie is anything but; it looks drab and shoddy, and tends to flatten what it should be hyping up. Even the gags, rather endearing at first, turn serious when soulful and sensitive John (Peter Gallagher) joins the household and transforms the mood; from then on, the guys start to fall in love and-you guessed it-learn about themselves. "Watch It" promises high spirits but never delivers them; by the end, it feels lazy and slumped. If anything keeps it alive, it's a couple of performances by women, a combative Cynthia Stevenson and a daffy Lili Taylor. -Anthony Lane
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where is the DVD?, January 11, 2005

By	T. A. Cross (Reykjavik, Iceland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My wife and I both absolutely love this movie. It is truly a gem that unfortunately has been overlooked by most people. I have been looking for it to come out on DVD for two years now and it just isn't coming out. What's the deal??

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true comedic gem!! Quotes galore!!!, August 5, 2004

By	L. Brucker (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

How I stumbled upon this movie:

At my local blockbuster in Gillete NJ, I came across a black box with a yellow stick on it that said "watch it!" Apparently someone had lost the case and the replacement display box used was just a black box with a sticker and the name of the movie. However, since the title was watch it! I had no idea what it was, AT ALL. So i did what it said, and i "watched it" AWESOME MOVIE, HILARIOUS.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best-kept movie secret of the 90s, November 5, 1999

By	Linda Delacourt "hoyamd2b" (E Hanover, NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Discovering this movie was truly a stroke of luck. You'll find yourself quoting lines at parties for years - if you can find someone else who's seen it!