Remarkable, Yet Unappreciated

Rating: 8/10 (10 April 2007)

If you had paid attention to this movie, (watched the trailer, commentary, exclusive clips, cast & director interviews) then you would have known ahead of time that this was the type of movie that you had to just "Let the movie take your mind where it wants to."
These were made to be over-the-top, over-disgusting, over-serious-yet-hilariously-funny movies. I'm not sure if they were supposed to be as funny as my friends and I found them to be, but they turned out to be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen...ever.
These movies were the type of movie that when Cherry (Rose McGowan) propelled herself into the air with her machine-gun leg in Planet Terror, or Zoë (Zoë Bell) somehow hung onto the hood of a car for an extended period of time during a car chase scene in Death Proof, you turned to your friends to find them all looking around too like "Did that seriously happen?"... and then you all laugh because you know that it's supposed to be over-the-top.
I found Death Proof to be especially great based only on the fact that it didn't follow the "now-a-day" horror/thriller direction, and what a pleasant surprise that was.
MY ADVICE: Grab some friends, grab a ticket, grab a front row seat, and get ready to enjoy a very imaginative take on the classic double-feature, missing reel, and extremely graphic theater production known as... Grindhouse.
I mean, come on, I'm only 19 and I can appreciate this movie for what it is.