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- From: jdt@ulysses.att.com (Jonathan D. Trudel[ftd])
- Subject: Re: New Zucker Brothers movie(rental) "Brain Donors"..anyone see it?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.170738.28947@ulysses.att.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:07:38 GMT
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- In article <1h4ja8INNbdg@eagle.natinst.com>, darrenl@natinst.com (Darren Lilie) writes:
- |> While renting another video this weekend I saw a preview for "Brain Donors"
- |> which is now available on video. It is a Zucker Bros. film(the Airplane! guys)
- |> and was wondering if it was any good. The preview looked like it would be
- |> a dumb movie but I have liked about every other movie they've produced.
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- NOOOOOOO! Don'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pluck your eyeballs and pour salt in the open
- sockets before you consider renting this movie.
-
- It's the Zucker Brothers' attempt to make a Marx Brothers film, right down
- to the copies of the brothers themselves. The guy who played Barton Fink
- was Groucho, and I don't remember the names of other two (although, the one
- who played the Chico character was the Fourth Alien in Morons from Outer
- Space). They even had Nancy Marchand play the Frumpy Old Lady. The Marx
- Brothers styling was so forced that it was painful to watch. It wasn't
- original, and most important of all, it wasn't funny.
-
- It sucked. It sucked donkeys.
-
- I saw it in the theaters. There were two other people in the theater,
- and I think I heard them laugh twice, which is double the amount of
- laughs I laughed. It's really a shame, because I generally can find something
- to like about every movie I've seen.
-
- Rent Duck Soup, or Animal Crackers. See it done right.
-
- Jon
-