yeah, ya don't becha

Rating: 5/10 (11 March 1999)

This film is a tad over-rated. Maybe it's the continuous pounding of forced Minnesota accents or the bloodiness of the story, but it is unsettling. First, Minnesotans (or minnesooootans) don't talk this way all the time (I rarely hear it--; at least this pronounced). Secondly, A Simple Plan (in my opinion) is a better film. I like the winter scenes in both movies and the story lines are both at least good. However, Fargo goes a little too far. Aspects like the chipper are good/funny, but a continuous pounding of the "yeah, ya bechas" is too much. Understandably it is a little funny to make fun of the midwesterners that have a pro-wrestler governor, live in the "cold", (had the gall to make Might Ducks 2+3), and have made fun at New Yorkers and others in the past, but there is such a thing as too much of a bad/good thing.