I laughed for all the wrong reasons!!

Rating: 9/10 (10 March 2000)

I saw this movie last week and having heard nothing about it (except that it was disgusting) I was not overly hyped.
All the way through the movie I kept wondering where I had heard the main male characters voice...it was not until later I was told he was Kevin Spacely, the guy who did the voice of hopper in A BUGS LIFE.
There are 3 main groups of people who comment on this movie. The first (like me) thought it was funny..but not worth the hype. The second hated it saying it was perverted and sick...I was told that half the people left the cinema while seeing this movie. And the third absolutly loved it and overhyped it, so ruining everyone elses perseptons of it.

Yes it is a good movie but it is not worth the overall 9/10 rating.

It was spoilt by the beginning where we are told the main character will die (I don't see this as a spoiler because it is the first thing you hear when you see it) which in my opinion ruins the ending. I think the ending would have been more shocking if it was not anticipated.
The blonde teenager was overly sterotyped...I absolutly HATE the "sterotyped teenspeak" and the plastic bag thing was boring..BUT served a brilliant symbolic purpose. I laughed for all the wrong reasons in this film, I see it as a black comedy, and thankfully there were no really gratuatis sex scenes in it, however it is cringe-worthy through out the film as we see (among other things) the fathers disgusting fantasies about his daughters friend.

All in all a good way to spend your afternoon, but I would only give it an 8/10. I am the type of person to rate movies based mainly on how entertaining it was. However, just because *I* rated it that does not mean the whole board should give it such a high rating. I know is sounds silly, but when you compare other films of a much greater calibre which are given lower rating it seems such a shame. Overall the board should have given it a 7 or an 8.
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