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| ACTORS: | David Cross (II), Bob Odenkirk |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Troy Miller |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | New Line Home Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 794043651328 |
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Customer Reviews of Run Ronnie Run!
The Mr. Show's Bastard Cousin What if you took Jack Black (School of Rock), half the cast of the Kids in the Hall (Dave Foley and Scott Thompson), Sarah Silverman , Ben Stiller, Andy Richter, and the zany antics of THE MR. SHOW and jammed them into one movie? It would be funny right? Well in a perfect world yes! In our real 21st century world, unfortunately, Not at all. I just wonder how some of the funniest people in Hollywood made a film that was so unfunny it's a travesty of justice.
RUN RONNIE RUN! Stars David Cross (Small Soldiers) and Bob Odenkirk (Monkeybone), the creators of HBO's brilliantly funny THE MR. SHOW, as Ronnie and Terry. Ronnie (Cross) is your typical a drunk as hell redneck, with a heart of gold, and a rap sheets 5-miles long. The guy can't help getting arrested, and pining after his trailer trash honey Tammy (Jill Talley, The Ladies Man)
Terry is a failed infomercial maverick, looking to exploit Ronny. He's also got the worst British accent of all time. Together Ronny and Terry create a reality show in which Ronnie is arrested every episode. Har, Har let the stupid satire commence.
RUN RONNIE RUN! takes the Adam Sandler approach to comedy. Let's be gross, disgusting, misogynistic and still cute so we don't offend anyone. So of course it's jammed packed with dogs eating vomit, a odd song about a penises and vaginas, a guy who keeps getting run over by cars, women being beaten for laughs, and cannibalism. If they had stopped right there I would have given the movie a C for effort. But alas, the film is jam packed with silly dramatic scenes that just don't belong.
The film is also filled with some pretty graphic violence that at first is funny, and then just disintegrates into savage brutality. This in and of itself is okay in a horror movie, a vampire picture, or an action movie. But in a comedy it just changes the whole timbre of scene. Sometimes less is more, or maybe I'm just getting old.
There are exactly three jokes that work in this movie. One involving Mandy Patinkin (Men With Guns) and method acting, another involving Jeff Goldblum (Jurrasic Park) and a wacky spiritual Guru, and there is a scene involving Jack Black (School of Rock) a cartoon Squirrel, and an assortment of chimney sweepers that is so funny, it might be worth a rental just to see it. As for that everything else it just fails. I think the worst part is that the jokes don't even fail miserably to the point that you can laugh at a train wreck. The jokes more or less elicit groans. RUN RONNIE RUN! plays like a great standup comic on a bad night.
I have a feeling that if Cross and Odenkirk has just hired their friends to sit around a table and tell jokes this film would be far more successful. The moments when the movie begins to shows potential are the moments when it breaks away from the plot and decides it's time to be funny. RUN RONNIE RUN! It's a comedy with too much plot and not enough lunacy.
I am being extra hard on RUN RONNIE RUN! because of how smart Cross and Odenkirk have been in the past. If you have ever sat through THE MR. SHOW on HBO you will discover a biting and no holds barred comedy sketch show. RUN RONNIE RUN! is like THE MR. SHOWS bastard cousin, no style, no wit, and not funny, and it seems to keeps itself too far away from the line. Inching close sometimes but never enough to make it satisfying.
RUN RONNIE RUN! Could have been a great film. It could have been the comedy we all long for, but alas it's a shoddy satire, with very little heart, and not enough laughs.
*1/2 out of 5
As a side note I forgot to mention the really funny parody of the old "Let's Go Out To The Lobby" cartoons of the 50's and 60's. The sequence is really funny and should be added to another New Line Cinema comedy.
Decent, But Not Worthy of Odie & Cross
Let's face it, Run Ronnie Run was made to be a mainstream movie. And it's a very good mainstream movie. But, followers of The Bob and David, it's not OUR movie. It's not OUR Mr. Show, hell, Tom Kenny plays a couple (albeit hilarious) bit roles, John Ennis barely appears, and Paul Tompkins and Jay Johnston don't even appear in the original movie.
That said, there are some hilarious moments, including Jack Black's performance in the children's film, 3x1-1, Tom Kenny as Trey Brackish, and Dave Foley, Andy Richter, and Sarah Silverman were terrific in their brief appearences. DVD probably has some of the best deleted scenes of any movie out there, and should've been in the film.
Let's hope the "super cut" Bob & David (Who were better than their material) and Troy made is worthy of our expectations. Teradaloo.
Thank Jebus I only rented it.
If you're a Mr. Show fan, and you don't see how it could be bad, rent it first. You'll be glad you did, but still sorry you paid the 4 bucks.