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DVD : The Onion MovieIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Len Cariou, Steven Seagal, Larissa Laskin, Abigail Mavity, Daniel Dae Kim directed by: Tom Kuntz, Mike Maguire, James Kleiner  List Price: $26.98 Amazon.com's Price: $19.99 You Save: $6.99 (26%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: ONION MOVE, THE (UNRATED) (DVD MOVIE) EAN: 0024543518945 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 03, 2008 Running Time: 80 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: 2008 Sales Rank: 6708 MPN: FOXD2251894D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: This just in...The Onion invades DVD! Based on the wildly popular newspaper hailed by The New Yorker as â??the funniest publication in the United States,â? The Onion Movie brings you uncensored, uninhibited, UNRATED news and views from around the world. In a stunning development, when Onion News anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is asked to compromise his journalistic integrity to please a new corporate sponsor, he doesnâ??t just get mad, he gets...angry. Taking aim at pop stars, prisoners, peace talks and, of course, high-testosterone action films, The Onion Movie delivers hard-hitting headlinesâ?"and side-splitting laughs! Amazon.com: Shelved since 2003 then released straight to DVD, the feature-length Onion Movie is based on the satirical nationwide newspaper The Onion, which works better in print than on celluloid. That said, hardcore Onion fans will appreciate this effort to enliven text with filmed comedic sketches that strongly resemble Saturday Night Live news and National Lampoon. Directors Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire translate what would normally read as sarcastic headlines into slapstick skits starring three news reporters, Norm Archer (Len Cariou), Larissa Laskin (Dana Dobbs), and Scott Klace (Kip Kendall), reporting on idiotic events either live or in the studio. The newsreel opens, for example, with a report from Archer on the dangers of "neck belts" in automobiles, that have lately been decapitating drivers. Spoofs on everyone and everything, from slutty teen stars, racial stereotyping, the handicapped, to military recruitment officials turned peaceful by marijuana, add plenty of characteristically perverse and iffy Onion humor to this odd film. The Onion Movie relies loosely on a plot in which Norm Archer, devoted anchorman, protests a toy penguin interrupting his screen time in the name of advertising an upcoming film, Cockpuncher, that the network’s corporate sponsor, Global Tetrahedron, has funded. This facetious action film featuring Steven Seagal, looks a little too life-like after Norm takes measures to fight the power. At an hour and a half, news skits interrupted by fake commercials and Archer’s fits of rage feel played out, though skit-to-skit, the news broadcasts are quite hilarious, making the film an overall winner if you’re in the mood for mockery. --Trinie Dalton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - onion moviethis movie was nothing like i thought it was going to be. this is one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my life so far. i expected it to make fun of the news not be the news. i would only recommend this movie for someone i didn't like & i hope nobody makes the same mistake i did by buying this movie. it sucks. Rating: - Pretty Funny MovieVery off-beat comedy with some hilarious moments kind of remind you of SNL news sketch but a lot raunchier. Fun Movie to watch. Rating: - OMG what a huge disappointment!Don't get me wrong, I love books, newspaper and short video clips from "The Onion," but this movie was horrendous! I should have read who was in the cast first before buying. If I had known Steven Segal was in it, this DVD would still be on the shelf. Rating:  - Worth The Price Just To See Mousie Garner's Last Film RoleThe Onion Movie is definitely worth the purchase price if only to see Mousie Garner, the last surviving member of Ted Healy's Three Stooges comedy troupe, in his very last comedic film performance. Garner, (born: July 31, 1909 - died: August 8, 2004), was 95 years old when he signed on to The Onion Movie to play the role of "Uncle Smackers." Garner, who enjoyed a 75 year career as a popular stage, screen, radio and television comedian, died only a few months after filmming a variety of sequences ... Read More Rating: - Did not translate from the written versionAmerica's Finest News Source makes for fantasatic entertaining print. Unfortunately, it didn't translate too well for the movie. There was some humor (a parody of Brittney Sprears and Steve Seagal doing a self-parody) but overall it didn't translate well to the screen. The subversive dark humor was there, but perhaps a little too much Leslie Nielsenesque humor with it. The movie was 80 minutes long, and that was at least 20 minutes too much. Browse for similar items by category:
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