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Release Date: 03 October, 2000 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: |
The Brothers McMullen Reviews
Repression is not such a bad thing.
If there is one independent film that has been praised too much, and for too long, it is this film. This is the story of three brothers as they deal with life and love. Director/Actor Edward Burns really tries hard to bring out a film with some strong family values, but fails miserably. Here is the really funny part. Instead of just letting a dead horse remain in the barn, Burns counters with producing and directing the SAME movie, except this time it is called She's the One. How did this happen?
I know this is a short review, but I didn't want to bother writing down everything I disliked about this film, so I just kept it short and sweet. Overall, I say skip this film. It was pointless and drab and proved that if at first you don't succeed; release another film with a different title with basically the same plot.
BLAH!
Grade: * out of *****
coupla yuks, but mostly a clunker
I'm going to paraphrase a real critic on this one only because when I read his review it was side-splittingly funny: "The men in 'Brothers McMullen' can't do so much as screw in a light bulb without putting on a Notre Dame sweatshirt and cracking open a Guinness" (Joe Queenan). Read his 'Red Lobster, White Trash and the Blue Lagoon'... but I digress.
There was one great line in this movie when MacGlone's character finds out his girlfriend isn't pregnant and he won't have to make agonizing decisions about abortion and religion and whether he wants to marry the woman. He's strolling through his girlfriend's father's clothing store and says (to himself) something like, "Thank you, God. She's not pregnant. Oh thank you thank you God...... but.... will you just look at these sweaters?!?" It's a great laugh in a film that isn't full of them unless you subscribe to laughing at Irish-Catholic stereotypes for 90 minutes. I don't know a single Irish-American who has subjected himself to ethical dilemmas 24/7 like McGlone's character. Give him a hot dog on a Friday during Lent and watch him have an aneurysm. Now that would be a movie. I mean... OK! I get it! He's tightly wound Super Catholic Man. Duh! Stop pounding me over the head with it.
The acting is spotty. Note to aspiring filmmakers, do not cast Maxine Bahns in any part requiring dialogue. She delivers dialogue like Downtown Furniture delivered my couch: clumsily. Her words will bang up against the door jambs of your cinematic sensibilities, will scrape the hardwood floors of your threshold for mindless drivel and will tear the upholstery from your couch of sincerity.
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