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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious!, May 28, 2001
This film was hilarious! For a low budget movie, I was surprised how well paces, and fun it was to watch. The acting was particularly good. Sean Young was a trailer park mom. That's something I haven't seen before. William Devane and Jason London almost stole the movie. A lot of quotable dialogue. Well written! And very well directed!!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I found Sean Young's commentary track very refreshing...and I liked the movie too., July 23, 2007
I'd give the movie 3 stars on it's own, but due to the refreshing criticism by both Sean Young and the writer/director on the single commentary track, I'm adding an extra star to the overall grade.
This movie suffers from absolutely awful cinematography (Dir. of Photog.'s first film). Although, because this is a movie about poor white trash, it is almost fitting. Regardless, I still enjoyed the movie right from the very beginning.
However, to help get you into the right mood to watch this movie, I would suggest that you listen to a bit of the Sean Young and writer/director's commentary track, before you begin watching, so that you can hear how relaxed and frank the two of them are. They are having fun eating and drinking while they do the commentary (eventually, you hear bottles being opened, etc.). In less than a minute you should be relaxed, so just jump back to the beginning of the movie and watch it without the commentary (the first time).
In the commentary track, both the director and Sean Young quite often comment on the bad lighting and low budget they had to put up with, and I was shocked to hear Sean Young talk about how Jason London didn't get along with her, and how he basically berated her on the set. She also criticized the cinematographer (his first film) and the director, in a friendly, yet, educational way. I found it to be both entertaining and informative.
One great side effect about having a low budget, is that you often have just one take to do most of the scenes. This allows for the inclusion of many scenes that include actor errors or mishaps that would normally be edited out or reshot. One such great scene occurs when Jaime Pressly is trashing a hospital room. Shortly after she kicks a small television across the room, she loses her balance after bumping into a table, slips, and then takes a hard fall. Without missing a beat, she gets up immediately and continues on with the scene. Both Sean and the director get a nice laugh out of it, on the commentary track.
I also believe that if this Dvd was handed out for free, to 100 random people in a major city, 80 of them would probably stop watching it after 20 minutes or less. Ten of them would just fast forward scan to see all of Jaimie Pressly's scenes, and the final ten people would enjoy it as much as the majority of the Amazon reviewers here seem to.
I think the low budget look to the movie would turn most people off. It also takes awhile until the entertaining William Devane or Jaime Pressly appear (no, Jaime is never naked-a bikini is as close as she gets). Also, surprisingly, there's no nudity at all in the film- just one very partial side breast of a girl is quickly shown, but nothing else I remember.
So, even though there's probably a 60%-80% chance you won't want to watch the whole movie, or even bother listening to the commentary track, I would still suggest that you at least rent it, to see if it becomes one of your guilty pleasures. It's certainly one of mine.
Like one of the menu choices on the Dvd states..."Play the Damn Movie".
See ya at the trailer park!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty Awful., April 9, 2001
The lithany of bad jokes, fowl and obscene humor from "Grandpa", and constant bizarre but stupid twists make this a hard pill to swallow. Towards the end of the movie, there's even a poorly-edited giant shoot-out involving seemingly every member of the cast, which really has no place in the film at all. And really, the end was the worst part of the film. Really painful.I kept on waiting for something to happen, but I should have trusted my instincts and turned the thing off. The humor was really more appropriate for the teens crowd (watch out for a painfully long and drawn-out scene in which one of the boys makes out with his favorite blow-up doll), but the amount of language (i.e., constant references to being molested in prison) and graphic violence make it inappropriate for young people. I think this movie probably looked a lot better on paper. The script was clever in parts. Perhaps with a better cast, a better director, and a stern copy-editor, Poor White Trash could have been something. However, I can't even think up a decent drinking game to accompany this terrible movie. I gave it two stars for the two times I laughed during the film.
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