Jimmy Jimmereeno
Joined Apr 2000
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How bad is this movie? This sequel is flat out blasphemous, scoring a slot right next to Godfather 3 as worst and most unnecessary sequel ever. It's not just a lite 85 minute comedy thing either, it's a solid two hours of bad music and sequel jokes "You guys again?". Of course there is no John Belushi this time, instead we get John Goodman who is usually good but Belushi himself couldn't help this movie. I just feel sorry for all those people who had to sit through this in the theatres. Then again, they probably should've known better. Also, there's a little kid who joins the band. The dance numbers are terrible and it's embarrassing to watch all those big names like James Brown and Eric Clapton participating in this. How could Dan Aykroyd do this to his good friend Belushi and desecrate the good name of The Blues Brothers? Total crap. Also, this movie has a weird Men In Black vibe to it, must be those cool sunglasses.
Oh, man I hated this movie. Such a waste of good talent. Where to begin? This is billed as a comedy starring all actors and actresses I like. If you're reading this, then you know who they are. Even the director(L.A.Confidential) is good. This looks so promising. Add a crapload of great reviews and you have winner, right? Wrong. Everything is wrong here. The mood is set when a dog is unnecessarily shot at the beginning and becomes a running joke. I'm no right-wing moralist concerned about movie content or a member of PETA for that matter but this is not funny to me. Then we have the depressing character of Michael Douglas. This guy is a teacher who does drugs, lives with a female student, is losing his third marriage or something. He is a sad character. Not funny. I hate how nothing is really explained either. Why is Tobey Maguire so weird and suicidal and a compulsive liar? Why is Katie Holmes living with Michael Douglas? Are they sleeping with eachother? Everyone in this movie is dysfunctional in a very unlikeable, unfunny way. I feel sorry for all these characters. Just because a movie has a setting at a college campus and is about intellectuals are we supposed to believe it's a smart movie? There is nothing smart about this movie. The entire movie can be summed up in one line: Rip Torn is accepting an award for a book he wrote and in his acceptence speech he begins "I am a writer." Which is followed by applause. This movie is masquarading as some kind of intellectual heart-warming comedy but is actually pointless trash, dull, not funny and a waste of time. It's too bad because as I said ealier it's full of great talent. Go see Cider House Rules again instead.
As has been said in other reviews, you can't take this movie seriously. It is full of terrible acting and cheesy one-liners. And hopefully it was intended to be like this. I really want to see a DVD with a director commentary. Anyhow, this is a very in-depth story of young people who sign up for the military of the future. It is total satire of military politics and World War II propaganda films. Even excessive gore(which should be expected from Paul Verehoven) is humorous in places. I say in-depth because the story follows the flawlessly beautiful plastic teenagers from high school graduation to military enlistment to boot camp and finally to war. Most sci/fi movies would drop a space ship of people on a planet with aliens and watch them all die. This is a smarter, funnier movie than I thought I was going to see. Fans of the Robert Heinlen book say it's really different from the book but as a stand alone movie it is very good.