House on Haunted Hill is one of the new breed of waste-no-time thrill machines, like Deep Blue Sea, and a particularly effective example at that. The plot is pure contrivance: For a party stunt, a wealthy amusement-park manufacturer (Geoffrey Rush) offers five people a million dollars if they spend the night in a former insane asylum where the patients murdered the sadistic staff. But it turns out the five people who arrive aren't the five he invited--did his wife (Famke Janssen), who hates him, make the switch? From there events unfold with a smart combination of human and supernatural machinations; spooky jolts are dispensed at regular, but not entirely predictable, intervals. The visual effects owe a considerable debt to Jacob's Ladder, a much more ambitious movie; House on Haunted Hill just wants to get under your skin, and succeeds more than you'd expect. Rush is his entertainingly hammy self; Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter and Bridgette Wilson are attractive and reasonably straight-faced about it all; and Chris Kattan is genuinely funny as the house's neurotic owner. Some elements of the plot seem to have been lost in the editing process, but it hardly matters. More bothersome is that the scares go flat when computer effects take over at the end--the digital images just aren't as creepy as the more suggestive stuff that came before. But that's just the very end; most of the movie has a lot of momentum. Watch until the end of the credits for a final bit of eeriness. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
Expanding their one-joke skit from US television's Saturday Night Live, Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell are Doug and Steve Butabi, the wearers of the rayon suits and Speedo trunks who bob their heads in unison to dance music while unsuccessfully preying on women in clubs. What's funny in a three-minute piece doesn't always get funnier by expansion, but Kattan and Ferrell give it a go with fellow SNL member Molly Shannon as their ambitious neighbour. By day they work in their father's fake-plant store. By night they prowl the club scene after spraying on the cologne in their gauchely decorated bedroom. A fender-bender with Richard Grieco (playing himself) gets them into the popular club the Roxbury, but it's not all good news, as the brothers soon find themselves torn apart. Doug and Steve are pathetic but lovable, mostly due to the actors' talents for self-deprecating humour. All gifted comedians, Kattan, Ferrell, and Shannon obviously feel comfortable around each other, and their love triangle (which prompts send-ups of Say Anything and Jerry Maguire) is the funniest joke in this mostly lame comedy. Too bad, because it clocks in at about 80 minutes and could have run on television as a pretty good episode of SNL, which has been known to get a bit lame itself. --Shannon Gee
Brendan Fraser stars as Stu Milely,a mild-mannered cartoonist whose most famous creation is the anarchic Monkeybone. After an accident Stu wakes up in the fictional world he created, and soon realises Monkeybone has taken over his body in the real world,
Hipper-than-hip Afro-sporting superhero-of-sorts Undercover Brother (the multi-talented Eddie Griffin) stands up for oppressed people everywhere and looks damn good doing it. But when The Man and his demonic henchman Mr. Feather (Chris Kattan) drug a wildly popular black presidential candidate (Billy Dee Williams) Undercover Brother must team up with the positive underground group the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. in order to restore peace and unity within the community. Employing his see
White Chicks (Dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans 2004): From Keenan Ivory Wayans the director of Scary Movie comes White Chicks a gender-bending gut-busting comedy starring funnymen Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans. What happens when two fumbling FBI agents disguise themselves as mega-rich princesses to infiltrate high society? Snap! It's frantic antics and nonstop hilarity as the brothers go from hapless G-men to haute couture G-strings...with attitude! Groovin' tunes hardcore jams and a sidesplitting disco dance-off with the bluebloods fuel outrageous laughs from start to finish in White Chicks - two brothers just keepin' it real. Sort of. How High (Dir. Jesse Dylan 2001): High school students Silas and Jamal have two aims in life; get high and get girls. Silas discovers some 'Superweed' which has a surprising effect the pair start to achieve really good grades at school and manage to get accepted at Harvard University... Undercover Brother (Dir. Malcolm D. Lee 2002): Hipper-than-hip Afro-sporting superhero-of-sorts Undercover Brother (the multi-talented Eddie Griffin) stands up for oppressed people everywhere and looks damn good doing it. But when The Man and his demonic henchman Mr. Feather (Chris Kattan) drug a wildly popular black presidential candidate (Billy Dee Williams) Undercover Brother must team up with the positive underground group the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. in order to restore peace and unity within the community. Employing his seemingly endless arsenal of clever disguises including the ultra-nerd Anton Jackson Undercover Brother embarks on his dangerous mission...
The romantic trajectory of two people struggling to make love work in spite of overwhelming odds. Having met in the '80s after a disastrous one night stand Adam and Steve don't recognize each other when they meet again fifteen years later. With the help of their best friends - a formerly obese stand-up comic Rhonda and straight guy ladies man Michael - our protagonists fall in love only to realize a year into their relationship that they met before and unwittingly changed the course of each other's lives that fatefull night in the 80's. Now the question is - can they accept this and incorporate it into their current understanding of each other? Or more importantly can they hold hands on the street without being beaten up?
Charlie Sheen, Hilary Duff, Eva Longoria and Christopher Lloyd lend their unmistakable voices to this computer-animated tale of a supermarket that springs to life after the doors have been locked and the workers have all gone home. When the lights are turned out chaos reigns for the products in this grocery store. The grocery store transforms into a city, and from every door of this city comes two types of characters: well-known marketing icons and new characters. This full-length CGI Movie f...
Chris Kattan Peter Falk Peter Berg and Chris Penn star in this hilarious fish-out-of-water comedy caper from two of the producers of 'The Waterboy'. The world's most dysfunctional Mafia family has a new weapon against the FBI. Nave bumbling Corky Romano (Kattan) the outcast son of a Mafia boss (Falk) is recruited by his family to infiltrate the FBI and steal any and all evidence that will put his cranky father in jail. But he's in way over his head when he's made out to be a
Comedy following the adventures of two LA girls who decide to take an alternative approach to dating after being let down too many times in the past. As best friends, Alexis Bell (Cameron Richardson) and Lindsay Green (Sophie Monk) share a lot with each other. Increasingly, the common ground between the pair is their increasing frustration with the backlog of cheats, liars and sleazy characters that comprise their dating history. The pair come up with a plan to change things in their favour. ...
Henry Selicks Monkeybone is another of the directors brave experiments in combining various forms of animation following his successes with The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. Two-dimensional, stop-motion, CGI and muppetry effects whizz by with casual dazzle, but sometimes a collection of great ideas isnt just enough for moviegoers, and audiences summarily dismissed Monkeybone at the cinema. Shame really, because the eye-popping design deserves as big a screen as possible to drink it all in. Adapted from a graphic novel the story concerns cartoonist Stu Miley (a suitably schizophrenic Brendan Fraser) who finds himself in a hellish purgatory called Downtown after a freak car accident puts him in a coma. Once there, he must find a way to cheat Death in the person of Whoopi Goldberg. There are complications, however. In the real world his girlfriend (Bridget Fonda) is battling to prevent his family pulling the plug, and his comic character alter ego Monkeybone has come to life as a randy stop-motion whirligig of bad taste and ideas. Although visually the film is a feast of inventive ideas--the amazing look of the Pyjama Party and the Land of Death are truly impressive--ultimately Monkeybone stands or falls by its sense of humour. But then its all a matter of taste. If the sight of a possessed organ donor jumping off the operating table and running around with a broken neck isnt for you, avoid. If seeing Fraser ham it up as hes enjoyed doing before in the likes of George of the Jungle, then enjoy!--Paul Tonks
In a divided land a troubled youth and some unlikely friends must save the world from itself. Delgo an adventurous but naive teenager must rally his group of friends to protect their world from conflict between the Lockni and Nohrin people.
Little Man: Hired to steal the fabulous Queens Diamond pint-sized jewel thief Calvin Simms (Marlon Wayans) and his dimwitted partner Percy (Tracy Morgan) stash the stone in Vanessa Chase's (Kerry Washington) handbag when their getaway plans go uproariously awry. Discovering Vanessa's husband Darryl (Shawn Wayans) who's hopelessly obsessed with becoming a father Calvin trades in his duds for diapers and poses as an abandoned baby. Suffering through a host of hysterical humiliations and outrageous family outings Calvin desperately tries to retrieve the gem before his cover is blown and Darryl and Vanessa really cut him down to size! Undercover Brother: Hipper-than-hip Afro-sporting superhero-of-sorts Undercover Brother (the multi-talented Eddie Griffin) stands up for oppressed people everywhere and looks damn good doing it. But when The Man and his demonic henchman Mr. Feather (Chris Kattan) drug a wildly popular black presidential candidate (Billy Dee Williams) Undercover Brother must team up with the positive underground group the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. in order to restore peace and unity within the community. Employing his seemingly endless arsenal of clever disguises including the ultra-nerd Anton Jackson Undercover Brother embarks on his dangerous mission... White Chicks: From Keenan Ivory Wayans the director of Scary Movie comes 'White Chicks' a gender-bending gut-busting comedy starring funnymen Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans. What happens when two fumbling FBI agents disguise themselves as mega-rich princesses to infiltrate high society? Snap! It's frantic antics and nonstop hilarity as the brothers go from hapless G-men to haute couture G-strings...with attitude! Groovin' tunes hardcore jams and a sidesplitting disco dance-off with the bluebloods fuel outrageous laughs from start to finish in 'White Chicks' - two brothers just keepin' it real. Sort of.
Army deserter Almer is on the run with local cowboy Luke after a robbery. After joining forces with an Apache warrior they set out to wreak vengeance on the Army. However what they don't know is that an Apache curse has turned all the local people into zombies.
Where The Dancing Is Dirty The Pink Is Pretty And The Foot Runs Loose. Do you prefer to wax on or wax off? Preacher won't let you dance? Well then put Baby in the corner and come on down 'cause VH1 is bringing back more of the '80s you love in its feature-length film Totally Awesome. The Gundersons have just moved across the country and the kids - Charlie Lori and Max - are trying their best to acclimate themselves into a new school and all kinds of dilemmas therein: the need to dance the pitfalls of young love the quest for popularity scientific genius and of course the quirky but loveable Japanese gardener. Totally Awesome takes all your favorite '80s-flick mainstays and weaves them into the biggest and baddest plotline ever conceived. To say it is radical would be an understatement.
There's nothing ordinary about the characters Chris Kattan brought to Saturday Night Live. From 1996-2003 he created a string of hilarious high energy comic creations. You can finally have the Mango along with the best of Mr. Peepers Suel Forrester The DeMarco Brothers and many others. Chris Kattan Live also features bonus material including outrageous outtakes and scenes that were cut after Dress Rehearsal and never seen again until now.
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