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The Road To WellvilleRating:
Release Date: 10 September, 2002 Retail Price: $24.95 OUR Price: $21.99 You SAVE: $2.96! Cast: Complete Cast (15 total) |
The Road To Wellville Reviews
Kooky Victorians
This is a genuinely odd picture, with a number of peculiar characters, all involved, in one way or another in the natural health movement at the turn of the 20th Century. I thought that Anthony Hopkins was wonderful as Dr. John Kellogg - what a fabulous accent and set of false teeth - I've never laughed at anything Hopkins did before, but this definitely made me laugh.
I haven't read the book on which this picture is based, so I don't have anything to compare it to. However, I don't mind nudity and I don't mind people talking about their bowels or their diets, so I don't have the complaints of some of the other posters here. In fact, I can't really think of any other film that has this one's theme of health-fads and their many oddball incarnations. Really, truly oddball. Seeing Colm Meany (Chief O'Brien from Star Trek) doing god-knows-what to himself while watching some German doctor do god-knows-what to Briget Fonda and Cathryn Mannheim was sort of a shocker, though. Luckily, they were behind some bushes. Made me wonder what Keiko would think. But I'm mixing my pictures, here.
If you're a grown-up and you can handle the enemas and the sex and the wacky "health" machines then this will be a good gamble for you. I've never seen anything quite like it. Eat your roughage, and remember to "chew, chew, chew! That is the thing to do!"
BEWARE - FULL SCREEN - Rating the FORMAT not the MOVIE
Any of the reviews here from people who rated the MOVIE as 5 STARS I COMPLETELY agree with... HOWEVER, I bought and RETURNED this dvd because it was FULL SCREEN. There is NO WAY that this format or version, or whatever you want to call it can be justified in this day and age. WIDESCREEN or LETTERBOX are the ONLY WAY TO GO. And for those who like full screen (why?????) great, but Amazon should at least offer the WIDESCREEN for those of us who ONLY ENJOY THAT FORMAT.
I hear other "vendors" offer the widescreen version, which I will now purchase, but I would like to have been able to do this through Amazon.
THE MOVIE ITSELF IS INCREDIBLY AND BRILLIANTLY FUNNY AND WELL DONE!
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