Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2/4
60%
CJP - wrote on 10/16/2008
Action: 2/3 + Comedy: 1/2 + Good vs Evil: 1/1 + Love/Sex: 1/1 + Special Effects: 0/1 + Plot: 0.5/1 +Music: 0.5/1 = 6/10 or 60%.
Teeth summons uncomfortability simply by explaining the plot. The cleverness of the product comes in the initial subtleties, the background of smoke stacks imply mutation and the initial speeches such as the biology teacher explaining why rattle snakes have rattles. There is a reason this is straight to DVD however and that is the overall direction.
Any seasoned director would realize immediaitely that Teeth is a one joke product, similar to Liar, Liar. One joke in different situations. That's it. So why it reveals the fabled punch line in the first minute of viewing is a head scratcher. There are 89 minutes left to tell the same joke. Thus, the taboo …
Rating of
2/4
No Bite
Franz Patrick - wrote on 08/17/2008
The idea was interesting but I’m afraid I can’t quite recommend it because there were too many empty moments where I thought, “Okay, just get on with the story already.” I’m talking about the shots when the camera would just stay fixed at one place or face. Usually, it works in more thoughtful movies but it did not work for this film because there wasn’t a deep enough story to merit such still shots designed to capture a character’s thoughts or genuine expression. Nonetheless, there were several highlights in this film–most often involves the main actress: Jess Weixler. I did enjoy scenes like the gynecologist’s office, the group date choosing which movie to watch, and the garage temptation. With a bit more material to work with, I think Weixler would’ve completely …
Rating of
3/4
"Teeth" has a little bite
kcvidkid - wrote on 06/10/2008
Funny concept, but somehow more interesting in theory than execution.
My favorite aspect of it was the hypocrisy of the teenage activists against pre-marital sex who can resist no longer when faced with temptation. Suddenly, there's no guilt or remorse; rather, any emotion is expressed as anger. And that anger is represented by the titular "teeth" of our heroine's vagina (which it is not too subtly suggested are a mutation caused by living in the shadow of two nuclear cooling towers).
"Teeth" isn't played strictly for laughs or for thrills; instead, an uneven balance of both.
Skin rating = 3 (out of 4). Lots of high school boy flesh, including a gym shower scene with full frontal male nudity. There are also several close-ups of male genitalia, if shots of bitten-off penises …
Rating of
3.5/4
Scary
chiggles - wrote on 05/31/2008
I have seen a lot of horror movies in my life, some, like The Excorcist, have scared me to death. But others like Dead Silence have bored me to death. Teeth is a fine example of a movie which seems to be stupid and appears to be a joke, then becomes scary as hell. Yes, I must admit that as a male, this movie scared the crap out of me on some certain scenes. The plot is definately new and the film sets up the ending almost perfectly, while I honestly though this film was going to be dumb, I guess I proved myself wrong.
Teeth, the whole movie can be summed up by saying that this girl had a man eating vagina. That's how I explain this movie to others when they ask what it is about. while I am not 100% correct with that description, I am not really wrong either. While this movie can be …
