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Watch It [VHS]

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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??

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.

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!

I simply don't understand how this particular movie hasn't made it to the DVD format. Many of the actors have gone on to stardom- for one. There are certainly multitudes of titles far inferior to said film that have been produced on DVD- often in several "pressings" in different editions! This was (in my useless opinion), the golden age of indie dialog-driven, no murder and/or explosions comedies, dramedies, etc, and it is well represented by an adequate, charming, and enjoyable, if indeed "inconsequential", outing via "WATCH IT". How's that for a run-on deliberation? I honestly think a great detriment to it's DVD birth is the title. The term "Watch it" is too common place in searches and activities and I'd bet this has secured it's obscurity as the two words simply rarely if ever arrive and/or occur in the context of a movie title. Place this sucker on DVD already!

Some how this gem flew in under the radar when it was released in 1991, so many people don't know how good it is. "Watch It", in my humble opinion, is a truly excellent date flick that somehow hasn't appeared on DVD format yet. What perturbs me the most is there is no "Alert Me" provision on Amazon's VHS or Laserdisc promotional web pages for this film. GET WITH THE PROGRAM AMAZON!

A comic look at friendships and relationships. Gallagher performs wonderfully as a drifter looking for the right relationship in the wrong setting. Tenney is a convincingly cold womanizer. Both characters struggle for the same girl while trying to resolve their own relationship. Definitely worth the rental.

This is one of those B-movie gems (where the creative people are allowed to run free because there isn't enough money riding on it for the bean-counters to be hovering over it). Tho it has many endearing features, it's chief feature is a 6-minute comedic rant by John C. McGinley on WHY NICE GUYS NEVER GET THE GIRL. It is so hilarious that I was rolling on the floor, trying not to swallow my tongue!! Unfortunately, it's very hard to find, and never made it from VHS to DVD. What a shame--it is a cult classic waiting to be discovered!

My wife turned me on to this movie early in our relationship. It's an outrageously funny dramedy, especially if you enjoy practical jokes. I just wish I could find it on DVD or via Netflix.

I happened to stumble on this film in the mid 90s. Nobody I know has ever heard of it, I can't find it on Netflix and it seems to have sunk without trace, which is a real shame.

The plot centers on 4 guys who share a house in Chicago and who amuse themselves by playing practical jokes on each other, generally culminating in one saying to the other "Watch it", as the joke is revealed. It sounds rather puerile, and it is in some ways, but it's still a really fun film. All the actors are good, there's a good plot an some excellent dialogue.

How this film has never caught on as a 'Cult Classic' I'll never know, when there re so many other films that are described in that way that are truly, mind-numbingly dull.

I won't give it 5 stars. After all, it's not Pulp Fiction or The Blue Brothers. But it is well worth 4. If you ever find it, rent it. I will.

I'm so ashamed for having sat through and watched this whole movie. Don't buy it...send me postage and I'll send you my "newly" bought VHS for free.
Save yourself the shame...never "Watch It."