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This just in...The Onion invades DVD! Based on the wildly popular newspaper hailed by The New Yorker as â??the funniest publication in the United States,â? The Onion Movie brings you uncensored, uninhibited, UNRATED news and views from around the world. In a stunning development, when Onion News anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is asked to compromise his journalistic integrity to please a new corporate sponsor, he doesnâ??t just get mad, he gets...angry. Taking aim at pop stars, prisoners, peace talks and, of course, high-testosterone action films, The Onion Movie delivers hard-hitting headlinesâ?"and side-splitting laughs!
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Shelved since 2003 then released straight to DVD, the feature-length Onion Movie is based on the satirical nationwide newspaper The Onion, which works better in print than on celluloid. That said, hardcore Onion fans will appreciate this effort to enliven text with filmed comedic sketches that strongly resemble Saturday Night Live news and National Lampoon. Directors Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire translate what would normally read as sarcastic headlines into slapstick skits starring three news reporters, Norm Archer (Len Cariou), Larissa Laskin (Dana Dobbs), and Scott Klace (Kip Kendall), reporting on idiotic events either live or in the studio. The newsreel opens, for example, with a report from Archer on the dangers of "neck belts" in automobiles, that have lately been decapitating drivers. Spoofs on everyone and everything, from slutty teen stars, racial stereotyping, the handicapped, to military recruitment officials turned peaceful by marijuana, add plenty of characteristically perverse and iffy Onion humor to this odd film. The Onion Movie relies loosely on a plot in which Norm Archer, devoted anchorman, protests a toy penguin interrupting his screen time in the name of advertising an upcoming film, Cockpuncher, that the networks corporate sponsor, Global Tetrahedron, has funded. This facetious action film featuring Steven Seagal, looks a little too life-like after Norm takes measures to fight the power. At an hour and a half, news skits interrupted by fake commercials and Archers fits of rage feel played out, though skit-to-skit, the news broadcasts are quite hilarious, making the film an overall winner if youre in the mood for mockery. --Trinie Dalton
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Item model number : 2251894
- Director : Tom Kuntz, Mike Maguire, James Kleiner
- Media Format : Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, AC-3, Dolby
- Run time : 1 hour and 20 minutes
- Release date : June 3, 2008
- Actors : Len Cariou, Steven Seagal, Larissa Laskin, Abigail Mavity, Daniel Dae Kim
- Dubbed: : Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
- Language : English (Dolby Surround), Spanish (Dolby Surround), Unqualified
- Studio : 20th Century Fox / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment
- ASIN : B0017XOF50
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #10,410 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,160 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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I crack up thinking about some of these sketches. Don't expect high brow humor. This stuff is dumb, but hilarious. Classic Onion comedy, great buy.
I love The Onion, but this production was terrible. Whereas Amazon Women on the Moon spawned Arsenio's famous line, "Look, the b*tch don't live here, man!", and The Kentucky Fried movie famously featured Henry Gibson telling us that "Death took more lives in America last year than any other cause," there are no such memorable moments in this movie. None. Most of the setups were unfunny from the word go, and while other skits looked promising, they went on far, far too long.
Do not waste your money. Every single video on The Onion's website is funnier than anything you will find here.
Personal Favorite skits: Armed Gunman, Melissa Cherry, Brice Brand. I liked the diver a lot too :)
I must recommend discovering this MASTERPIECE ! Just Buy This NOW ! You will not regret, I promise................
If you are wondering which movie of this genre can give you the most laughs, it falls in this order: "Kentucky Fried Movie", "The Onion Movie", and "The Groove Tube". Make no mistake. At least half of the "Kentucky Fried Movie" shorts are dated and fall flat but provided that you are old enough to understand some of the references in its parodies or you're pretty good with 70s trivia, you'll feel that your time was not completely wasted in vain.
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It's mainly a bunch of skits tied around a loose and central plot. A news station with an older and more respectable staff has been sold to a new company run by a younger generation that aim to make the news more fun and entertaining. The main news reporter is trying to maintain some level of respectability as his job and world fall apart around him.
If you like the old Saturday Night Live, SCTV, etc. you'll surely like this. I bought a copy because I'll be re-watching it.
Cheers!
PS - There is also an Onion website and newspaper and several books.