Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
Better Off Dead review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 02/01/2012
Lane Myer (John Cusack) was replaced by his girlfriend Beth (Amanda Wyss) for a captain of the high school ski team, Roy Stalin. Myer gets close to a French foreign exchange student named Monique (Diane Franklin). A few nice lines from Monique: “I think all you need is a small taste of success, and you will find it suits you.” and Lane – “No, tentacles. N-T. There's a big difference.” "She only speaks French, Roy. She doesn't speak imbecile."
The film had a few absurd scenes like the kid asking for 2 dollars on top of the car and a coincidental fall from the bridge in a garbage truck. It had some cheesy scenes as well though the humor was really good. Soundtrack was vigorous and direction was well constructed mixing clay animation, comic strip animation and adding a …
Rating of
1.5/4
"Better Off Dead" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 01/22/2012
A high school student loses his girlfriend to an obnoxious jock and sets about winning her back. Better Off Dead is a clear attempt to jump on the John Hughes bandwagon, containing the same mix of half-hearted surrealism, "growing pains" and nerds vs jocks storyline. Some of the jokes have stood the test of time, but the majority has not fared so well. It's all a bit too obvious (the ever likeable Cusack argues with his own cartoons, bad-cook-mom's food crawls off the plate etc etc) and the whole "learning to love the hottie under my nose while I'm trying to win back the bimbo" formula is beyond tired. A bit amateurish and very dated, this film probably stirs fond memories from people who saw it at the time but a re-visitation reveals it to be little better than Saturday morning sitcom …
Rating of
4/4
Comedy at its best
Holas - wrote on 07/01/2009
This was most definetely one of the funniest and memorable movies for me. I know this movie line by line. It was not a masterpiece by far, but it was just a great flick. This is why I became a fan of John Cusack. There is actually a cop where I live named John Cusack. But anyway, back to the movie. Every character in this movie was developed well. There was the crazy looking teacher from "Ghost", the boy who's mother blew up her face, the two-dollar kid, and the two Japanese sporting announcers. But overall, my hat goes off to "Booger", Curtis Armstrong--he was funny as all hell as the best friend. Not too many people came out of this movie, which is a shame, they were all good. The guy plays the mailman, played another mailman in a different movie as well. I even devoted a …
