Plump Fiction (1998)

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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 5-JAN-1999
Media Type: DVD Product Description

Worth watching if you're a fan, otherwise....

Funny, entertaining, but basically a sketch, not a movie. If you're a Paul Dinello fan, you gotta see it. If you don't know the comics already, you may be a little non plussed. Download it, it's worth a few bucks. :-) December 26, 2007

plump failure

I love parody movies, even some of the bad ones that get slammed with 1 star reviews I have found some things about them that I like. This one I should have listened to the majority of reviews for, but for the cheapo price it was, I took a gamble with my fingers crossed in hopes it was something better then what it was being acclaimed as.

Nuts! I wasted 3 bucks on this :(

Like I said, I love parody movies, but this one fails big time to hit the mark on what "parody" stands for. It attempts to parody Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Sister Act, Forrest Gump and Nell... but yet, fails to find a comedic approach to it.

It's more like an un-funny "mock" movie then a parody. Making out the pulp fiction characters (travolta and Jackson) as hitmen disguised as rodent killers who accidentally walk in on the reservoir dog characters which leads to killing a woman who has sent Forrest gump of with a script thats needed who ends up falling in love Nell might have sounded decent on paper, but it fails on screen with no comedy to it.

Some parts of this I thought where a decent idea, but there more the kind of things you notice in parody movies that you think it's not laugh out loud comedy, but it makes you smile, where as this movie, those smiles are the highest jokes in this thing.

There is nothing funny about Sister Act style nuns with guns and the parody attempt of Uma Thurman's Pulp Fiction character being a fat food junkie had a chance to be funny, but only succeeded in one scene where you think she is buying drugs and turns out shes buying chocolate and ends up having a diabetes like attack cause she needs the sugar and ends up being stuck with a needle...you know what scene its mocking in Pulp Fiction and thats about the only thing that did make me laugh a little in this whole thing.

The thing I found the funniest about this whole movie is a bonus feature... it was an interview with Julie Brown who plays Mimi Hungry (Uma Thurmans parody) who was being asked in an interview what makes a good parody movie... i turned it off right then laughing as I thought, "After seeing this movie, I know whatever she says is WRONG!

The other funny thing is it has a commentary track from the producer... I didn't listen to it, but it's funny that there is one on this god awful attempt to parody movies. If he is pointing out how good he thinks the movie is and explaining how something came to be, then he must be completely delusional. He must have written the episodes for Drew Cary that bombed, cause they never kept him on as a writer and after seeing this film, I can see why.

The only reason I finally gave into this is cause I liked some of Julie Browns songs in the 80's, but she does not bring any comedy as the leading role in this film. Not even Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson) brung anything to this film.

However, I can say some positives about this movie which I give it the 2 star rating for instead of 1.
- It had a couple of decent scenes. Not enough, but it has SOME.
- It's a hell of a lot better then "Epic Movie" or "Fatal Instinct" so it's not the worst parody attempt ever.
- Julie Brown is always a good perv.
- And you have to laugh that they added a commentary track to a movie no one wants to see, let alone will ever hear the commentary track.

so, on that note, if you love parody movies and you feel you HAVE to see this before you die, well, check it out. Other wise, you will not need to regret having never seen this thing... it's not the worst Parody movie of all time, but it's still down pretty low. December 19, 2007

An exceptionally funny parody

It's been several years since I saw this film, but it has to be one of the funniest send ups of a genre of film I have ever seen. I watched it more than once and it held up well. Much of the humor is subtle, some not so subtle, but most of it hit the mark for me. July 9, 2006

For two years, i had this movie up my ass.

Overall this movie was terrible, but the christopher walken impression in the diner made my day.

i would say dont waste your time seeing this movie, but god, that one impression is so good. so good. October 2, 2005

Plump Fiction; a Fat Failure

At it's best , cinema stands equal to any other form of visual and performing art. As a painter I greatly admire the artistic and technical skill demonstrated by the industry's finest directors. On the other hand, I am more than willing to put my brain on hold, kick back and enjoy films that have been ripped to shreds by critics.

However, once and a while a film comes along that is so poorly made, so shallow, so idiotic that even I have to say ' enough already ". Plump Fiction falls into this category. Ironically, this film has a wonderful cast. I have been a fan of Julie Brown's work for years. I loved her short lived series " Strip Mall " and I will even admit to having enjoyed " Earth Girls Are Easy ". Tommy Davidson is one of my very favorite actor/ comedians. I also admire Sandra Bernhard, Dan Castellaneta ( the voice of my personal hero and role model Homer Simpson ), as well as Paul Dinello and Colleen Camp. Sadly, no amount of great acting could possibly save this wretched, blatantly unfunny script.

This is by far the worst attempt that I have ever seen to lampoon well known films. The effort to blend send ups of " Pulp Fiction ", " Braveheart ", " Reservoir Dogs " and " Forrest Gump ", fails at every conceivable level. It is actually painful to watch these talented performs sleepwalk through this garbage. Paul Dinello seems to be visibly suffering as he struggles to bring something worthwhile to his version of John Travolta's character from " Pulp Fiction ". I can state quite honestly that I did not laugh even one time while I watched this disaster.

It is difficult to award this movie with so much as one star. Given the quality of the talent involved in this production, there is simply no excuse for this miserable failure of an end-product. This is very possibly the worst film I have ever seen. Such a waste.... May 8, 2005

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