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DVD Duplex
Anyone who's lived in an apartment will understand the mounting frustration of Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore as they grapple with the upstairs neighbor of their worst nightmares in Duplex, directed by Danny DeVito. Stiller and Barrymore play a young couple who think they've found the home of their dreams when they buy an astonishingly spacious Brooklyn duplex. Unfortunately, the second floor comes with a tenant, a seemingly sweet little old lady (Eileen Essell). Her petty demands and manipulative ways drive Stiller and Barrymore to desperate attempts to oust her--and when she breezily resists their worst efforts, the hapless pair begin to consider more serious (and final) measures. Duplex might be called a comedy of anxiety; it constantly pricks at your expectations of disaster, sending you into a nervous state that demands laughter as a release. Also featuring Wallace Shawn, Harvey Fierstein, and Swoosie Kurtz. --Bret Fetzer
For a movie having two superstars such as Berrymore and Stiller, this movie just doesn't get it done. The plot is a little more involved then what I expected, but the dialouge, follow, even the acting was marginal at best. I just can't recommend this movie. If you reall want to see it I say rent it. This is not worth owning.
Avoid the Name of Danny; As Awful as "Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot"
Probably the best effort from Danny DeVito as director would be 'Throw Momma from the Train' or 'The War of the Roses,' the latter being the ultimate battle of sex between Kathleen Turner and Micheal Douglas. 'Roses' was marred by occasional overdirection and presence of DeVito himself as lawyer, but certainly it was funny. But those films were made back in the 80s, when he was in the prime. With an exception of so-so 'Hoffa,' Danny DeVito has been doing the same pattern -- making comedies based on the battle between bickering characters.
Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore (who are also co-producers of the film) play a married couple moving into a duplex. For the reasons I do not know and do not care, the old lady (who must be more than 80 years old) living in the upper room starts annoying them, making big noises in the middle of the night for starters. The "battle" begins between the owners and the tennant (even the clever old lady has a nice trick of smiling before the young couple), and the more fierce the battle gets, the funnier the film becomes. That's how DeVito must have thought. Just like 15 years ago, in 'The War of the Roses.'
[JUST AWFUL] The results are awful mess, however. Most of the situations are plain impossible; the stars are charmless; amd most of all, their bahaviors are not merely stupid, but predictable. Ben Stiller does the same kind of character again, grumbling, always uptight and easily is persuaded to do something he never wants to do. Drew Barrymore is nice and sweet to everyone, but her sweetness is there fot the director to make some goofy scenes later (like her 'funny' hair formed by 'electricity'). And veteran Eileen Essell, who, with all respect, is so hammy at times that I still am not sure she really thinks that this is not a comedy, but a serious BBC drama or something. In short, she is devoid of the magic that is needed to make those potentially offensive characters charming to see.
In short, for the majority of the viewers, 'Duplex' is not funny; even by any standard of so-called dark humor, it is terribly unfunny and unpleasant to see. I found his comedy style pretty funny back in the 80s, but obviously it's time he quit. At least, as director.
THE CLAPPER
Yes, I had never heard of this movie until my girlfriend rented it one night. I loved Zoolander so I wasn't that surprised to like this. Anywho..the whole "Clapper" scene was so stupid I almost puked I was laughing so hard.Honestly we kept backing up the movie just for that scene. Just watching Ben Stillers face contort in agony was great. Great Friday night movie worth watching again!
Opposites are forced to attract in Along Came Polly, a dose of featherweight fluff that could've been better and could've been worse--surely no pairing of Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston can be a complete waste of time, right? Faint praise indeed, but fans of these mainstream funny-folk will enjoy this movie as a lazy-weekend distraction. Ben's a newlywed insurance risk-assessment analyst whose wife (Debra Messing, in a throwaway role) betrays him on their honeymoon. His uptight, play-it-safe lifestyle (which includes acute aversion to germs and irritable bowel syndrome) makes him seemingly incompatible with the spontaneous, free-spirited Polly (Aniston), but writer-director John Hamburg (whose writing credits include the previous Stiller hits Meet the Parents and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ben Stiller - Jennifer Aniston - Philip Seymour Hoffman - Debra Messing - Alec Baldwin Director(s): John Hamburg DVD Release Date: Released the 08 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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With generous amounts of good luck and good timing, 50 First Dates set an all-time box-office record for the opening weekend of a romantic comedy; whether it deserved such a bonanza is another issue altogether. It's a sweet-natured vehicle for sweet-natured stars Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, and their track record with The Wedding Singer no doubt factors in its lowbrow appeal. But while the well-matched lovebirds wrestle with a gimmicky plot (she has no short-term memory, so he has to treat every encounter as their first), director Peter Segal (who directed Sandler in Anger Management) ignores the intriguing potential of their predicament (think Memento meets Groundhog Day) and peppers the proceedings with the kind of juvenile humor that Sandler fans... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Peter Segal DVD Release Date: Released the 15 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Meet the Parents found such tremendous success in the chemistry produced by the contrasting personalities of stars Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller that the film's creators went for broke with the same formula again in Meet the Fockers. This time around, Jack and Dina Byrnes (De Niro and Blythe Danner) climb into Jack's new kevlar-lined RV with daughter Pam (Teri Polo), soon-to-be son-in-law Gaylord (Stiller), and Jack's infant grandson from his other daughter for the trip to Florida to meet Gaylord's parents, Bernie and Roz Focker (Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand in a casting coup). The potential in-laws are, of course, the opposite of Jack, a pair of randy, touchy-feely fun-lovers. The rest of the movie is pretty much a sitcom: put Bernie and Roz together with Jack, and... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Jay Roach DVD Release Date: Released the 19 April 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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An all-star cast remakes the 1975 socio-political horror flick, The Stepford Wives. After being fired as president of a television network, Joanna (Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge) has a nervous breakdown, prompting her husband Walter (Matthew Broderick, Election) to take her to a simple Connecticut town called Stepford to recuperate. But Stepford is a little strange: The schlubby husbands congregate at a closed-doors men's club, while the wives--all in bright summer frocks and air-brushed smiles--exercise to keep their hourglass figures and cook endless pastries. Joanna, along with new arrivals Bobbie (Bette Midler, Beaches) and Roger (the very funny Roger Bart), soon discover that the mastermind of Stepford (Christopher Walken, Communion) has used... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Nicole Kidman - Matthew Broderick - Bette Midler Director(s): Frank Oz DVD Release Date: Released the 09 November 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson--dark, wiry, and tense meets blond, lanky, and loose--make a solid comic team (and previously appeared together in Zoolander), but the funniest man in Starsky and Hutch is Vince Vaughn. Vaughn dives into his role as a sleazy drug dealer (who nonetheless buys a pony for his daughter's bat mitzvah) with the offhand zest that he brings to almost every role (from Swingers to Old School) and effortlessly steals every scene he's in. Vaughn has concocted a new and undetectable kind of cocaine, and only two cops who aren't afraid to break the rules--our titular pair--can catch him. But the plot isn't the point; mocking-yet-loving jabs at the '70s, including the homoerotic overtones of Starsky and Hutch's partnership, are what this movie is... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Ben Stiller - Owen Wilson - Snoop Dogg - Vince Vaughn Director(s): Todd Phillips DVD Release Date: Released the 20 July 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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