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Release Date: 03 June, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $11.98 You SAVE: $3.00! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
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Love Thy Neighbor
Tom Hanks is Ray Petersen, a man who just wants to relax and have a peaceful vacation. But, there's one thing stopping him from lounging out on a fold-out chair and drinking some beer. His next door neighbor. The Klopeks only come out at night and have been seen digging in their backyard. Petersen's neighbors are all curious about the mystery people and think they're a part of a dark conspiracy. Art (Rick Ducommun), Rumsfield (Bruce Dern) and Ricky (Corey Feldman) talk about ghoulish happenings and they start to investigate the Klopeks. What ghastly fun this movie is! Petersen tries to be conservative, while his friends just want to play spy. The Klopeks drive out of their garage and beats their garbage bag into the can with a stick! Sadistic! Then an old man disappears and they snoop around his place. A plate of cookies goes to waste, then the neighborhood decides to introduce themselves to the Klopeks and what a shocker! Rumsfeld drops his complimentary browies and says, 'forget the GD brownies!'. It was lordage. Hans (the geeky red-headed boy answers the door and tries to swat at flies buzzing around his head). Comical. Then an old Klopek who has the deepest voice in the world yells, 'NO!'. It was sheer delight. Then another Klopek who happens to be a doctor, has blood on his hands! Vile! In the end, the Klopeks leave their house for a day field trip and then Rumsfeld brought out his military gear! Ray and Art dig in the Klopek's backyard and find nothing and then break into their house find some bodies. There in the basement, they hit something. You'll have to see the ending to believe it. It's dynamite! Everybody delivers an under-rated performance and Art eats way too much food. Ray yells way too much. Dog poo galore! This movie has everything and it's definitely Tom Hanks' best comedy ever. Joe Dante does a great job of directing this eerie, dark comedy.
Sub-'Burbs
While I found the humor of 'The 'Burbs' kinda cute and occasionally giggle-inducing, it wasn't really all that funny to me. Ya got Tom Hanks in the usual 'reluctant-hero-caught-in-the-middle-of-it-all' role he usually played back in the mid-to-late 80s, with his trademark expression of outraged incredulity poppin' up when he's been pushed just a bit too far by his odd neighbors. Throw in the quasi-psychotic weirdness of Bruce Dern's character, and the cool-dudeness of then-teen-heartthrob Corey Feldman, and you've got a little something that's fun to watch, but ends up well short of being a bona fide laugh riot. Which was pretty much par for the course for most of Hanks' 80s comedies following 'Bachelor Party'.
Ah well, there's always 'Forrest Gump' if I ever feel the need to watch a truly funny Tom Hanks flick...
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