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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. This flick seems to be really splitting the audience. I've heard people calling HOT ROD the funniest movie ever and then there are people like our below spy who think it's... well, not. I really liked the trailer and I hope I fall into the camp of the people that think it's the funniest ever. Here's the review that says I shouldn't be signing up with those guys just yet. Enjoy!
Whats up Harry just want to drop in a review for the new Andy Samberg movie "Hot Rod" which I saw at a Chicago screening last night. I guess it was inevitable due to the success of Napoleon Dynamite that a knock off would be made. This movie has a similar thrift store aesthetic as ND. In fact in one scene Rod does a sweet jump on his moped in front of a Salvation Army. This whole movie seems like such a copy of Napoleon Dynamite that at one point while watching it I was thinking "why did Paramount just make this the sequel to Napoleon Dynamite?". Its seems like the most logical next step for the ND character and would surely make an easy 100 mill at the BO. The plot is basically the same plot we've seen before the antagonist needs to save something in this case its not a children's home (Blues Brothers), the family business (Tommy Boy), their house (Brady Bunch Movie) you get the idea, instead Rod needs to save his step dad who needs a heart transplant. So Rod has the epiphany to do one huge jump over 15 buses in order to raise 50K. The back story is he thinks his dad was Evel Knievel's mechanic and wants to be like him. As every movie has an antagonist Will Arnett is the Billy Zabka of this story. But the only badass thing he really does is not give Isla Fisher a message. Real badass. Isla Fisher is cute and plays the love interest of Rod. Her role basically requires her to wear tight jeans and ride a moped. Prob the easiest paycheck an actor has ever recieved. Rounding out the cast is Ian McShane who is actually really good as the step dad, Sissy Spacek as Rod's mom, Jorma Tacone as Kip Dynamite, I mean Kevin, Rod's step brother and Bill Hader as a guy who likes the party. Bill Hader was actually one of the only bright spots in the movie. I really like The Lonely Island just this movie doesn't do them justice. If you want to see what the Lonely Island is really capable of check out "Stork Patrol" on Youtube the Asian guy from Stork Patrol is even in "Hot Rod".
Johnny Roastbeef
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Damn, getting closer. Now I'll read this...
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So it shall die.
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This almost gives off an Awesometown Vibe, it looks like its the same group of kids.
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Damn, I was hoping this was some kind of Transformers thing. Yeah, yeah, Andy Samberg is all funny and stuff. I'll see this for lack of something better to do.
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"the Asian guy from Strk Patrol is even in Hot Rod"- What an odd thing to point out.
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because i'm seeing bourne that day and because...well...i'll wait to see if it's the funniest thing ever...
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Jul 06, 2007 4:36:03 PM CDT
"Why didn't Paramount just make this the sequel to ND?"
by johnny breakfast
Quote: "It seems like the most logical next step for the ND character and would surely make an easy 100 mill at the BO." Unquote.
Considering the first movie only made $44 million, not likely. Besides, you're giving us a review, not a box office projection report. When did everybody suddenly turn into a Burbank financial analyst?
IMO, outside it's very specific demographic (white disaffected midwestern teenagers) most peeps don't "get" ND.
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and I wiped my ass with it. Not really, but I didn't go. They were passing these out at the advance screening of Transformers in San Diego. Movie looks like shit. Once upon a time SNL movies were funny. That's because the SNL cast at the time was funny. Lame cast = lame movie. Tina Fey wrote SNL into the ground.
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The guy gets a movie after bored college kids watch a 2 minute video about Cupcakes and another about Dicks in boxes. Aaaand this doesn't seem to be a musical. Go watch his other sketches sans music and see how brilliant they are.
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and So will this.
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SNL makes me laugh, I'm amazed there is so much hate for SNL, but what can you do?
As for this movie, the preview looks funny, and this review is too attached to ND to be taken seriously. I didn't care for ND much, but it did make me laugh at parts, and I know it has a giant following who worship it. It seems if a ND worshipping fan were to review Hotrod, they might be slightly defensive about the whole thing, which is evidenced here. That's my two cents.
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Not hating on you Philselway22, but I cannot stand SNL these days. Used to be a huge fan. Has it gotten better? I saw the A-Holes sketch and almost laughed, I can see that being a weekly installment and totally played out.
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Yeah I wished this was News that HotRod was in Transformers 2.
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Was the biggest steaming pile of dog shit I've ever seen. Well, aside from Freddy Got Fingered. I will not be seeing this.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I in no way equated this flick to ND before reading this review. By the way...paragraph breaks. That's all I'm going to say.
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I do dig it. That doesn't mean every skit is funny, but there are diamonds in the rough. In this off-season I'm having trouble remembering the standouts, but I do like the following:
McGruber(Will Forte skits), Prince Show(Fred Armison and Maya Rudolph),Total Recall(Samberg), Vincent Price Holiday Specials(Bill Hader), The Bronx Beat(Poeler and Rudolph). There are more but they escape me at the moment(which is evidence that it's not spectacular.) The show does suffer from a complete overkill of Amy Poeler. She is still in every other skit which is mind boggling. I'm in no way implying SNL is as good as the Golden Years, but I laugh enough each week to keep Tivo'ing it. -
What a horrible piece of writing. And the fact that he said it seemed like a Napoleon Dynamite sequel cemented the fact that I will never see this.
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Yet! As more people see the preview for HOT ROD in theaters this weekend, I have a feeling anticipation will grow.
Now let me start by saying that I also saw this in a preview screening, like a FEW MONTHS ago!!!
And I thought it was HILARIOUS!!!
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When I read the synopsis, Napolean Dynamite TOTALLY springs to mind, and I was not a BIG fan of ND! Plus, it stars Andy Samburg, who also wrote it, i think, so not a major draw or anything.
But MAN was this movie un-expectedly GREAT!
Okay, think ND, but actually FUNNY!!!
I know this will be unpopular to say, but This took all the best elements of ND, and made it more slapstick and less "nerd-chic."
I wrote on my card at the screening how much it was similar to ND, but BETTER! So everyone wait to reserve judgement. At least until after you've seen a trailor.
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It's not that ND was "high-brow" but low-brow dressed up as hipster-cool/uncool. This wears it's nerd credentials on it's sleave and get's it just right! Of course, the story of ultra geeky, trying-to-be-cool Hot Rod, the wannabe stuntman whose every stunt goes miserably wrong, going after SUPER hot Isla Fisher has been done, but who cares. This movies not taking itself too seriously, and I mean, C'mon, Isla Fisher! She's just SO CUTE!!!
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Possibly because it is yet, another instance of them pretty much copying ND, is Rod's relationship with his step-father, played by Ian McShane. Rod is constantly trying to win his approval by attacking him and attempting to beat him up. Attempts which his stepdad always, hilariously thwarts, followed by some demeaning taunts! The Step-dad character is hilarious and MUCH funnier than the LOSer Uncle Rico in ND. This characte, infact, several characters end up having some depth, or at least enough to set up the next joke. Trust me, there are so many intentional laughs as well as un-expected humor in this movie that it will definitely be worth the price of admission!!
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wouldn't know who "that Asian guy" is. Much less be surprised that he was in the movie.
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I saw this movie at a screening in Santa Monica, CA a couple weeks ago I didn't even review because my review would have been one sentence. "Avoid!!! This movie is funny because how bad it is". People in the theater walked out... Walked out of fucking free screening I mean I wasn't laughing but at least I stayed. Seriously this movie was horrible I mean I chuckled a couple of times but the movie looks like it took ten minutes to write it was all ripped off Family Guy jokes. Seriously horrible go see Bourne instead or anything instead!
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I reviewed this movie a while back and I thought it was damn funny. Of course, I'm also a plant, so what do I know?
I get the Napoleon comparisons; I even made them myself. But its humor is not like Napoleon, just its look. This movie's sense of humor is much more similar to "Wet, Hot, American Summer". That is to say, hilarious. It's absurdist, it's silly, it's a great movie. -
(sings to the tune of the Transformers theme...) "Mi-chael Bay! Jacks off in your eyes!"
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his jokes are so run of the mill and obvious
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is there going to be a Rodimus prime storyline in future transformers flicks...actually dont answer that-theres too many Transformers tbs on the go.....
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How much do they pay you to write that? You'd think studio plants would learn to be less obvious.
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As bad as SNL's writing is today, how can anyone expect a 90 minute movie to be any good?
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yeah...it pretty much is like Napoleon Dynamite. Though actually funny and not with that weird mormon humor.
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Had a handful of big laughs but most of it is failed jokes and a patchwork of choppy scenes that don't fit together. The supporting cast is quite strong, Samberg is the weakest link here. Will be a hit with teenagers who are satisfied by a lowest-common-denominator type of movie, but anybody with discriminating taste will have forgotten the movie a day or two after seeing it.
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there is only one true crazy daredevil film being shown this year... www.devildaredmeto.com
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as the voice of cosby team triosby on the House of Cosbys, oh and "The 'Bu"
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I don't even know the dudes name thats in this piece of garbage, but he seems destined for the scrap heap of other SNL alumni lately who think they are inherently funny and entitled just because they have walked in the footsteps of much funnier cast members.
News flash. Getting on SNL does not necessarily a successful career make.
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Why? Because they both jump a ramp on their bicycles???
WTF?? Gimme a break.
Anyone who made that leap in logic is a COMPLETE moron.
Thats like comparing two movies because they both had actors in them. DUH!
Thats no basis of comparison.
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Johnny Roastbeef. Nice.
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Have you seen the movie? If you had, than I'm pretty sure you'd understand the Napoleon comparisons. Hint: It has nothing to do with bicycles. It's in the look. The movie is aestetically similar to Napoleon.
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Hot Rod looks mildly funny but mostly stupid. I think I'll go watch some Dumb and Dumber now. :P
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Why not do a completely over-the-top series of films with ridiculous plotlines that involve Napoleon and Pedro getting involved in all sorts of hijinks? ..........Napoleon in Outer Space........ Napoleon and the Scepter of Truth...... Napoleon and Pedro Confront the Margays of Cahuachi...... Heder will most likely go to the grave being known for his portrayal of Napoleon so why not run with it and make a few bucks in the mean time?
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...looked awful. NOBODY laughed. And this was before Transformers. Fuck Napoleon Dynamite...Simpons did it better!
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Damn. Enlgish, motherfucker. Do you speak it?
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"Damn. Enlgish, motherfucker. Do you speak it?"
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to watch him for the length of a movie I'd end up putting my foot,through/up someone's something. They should give Hader a shot at a lead.
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I'm glad Bill Hader was the hilight of the movie! I actually have a Bill Hader website called Bill Hader Online.
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Takes Napoleon Dynamite and wipes its ass all over the table, then it spits on it and blows its nose on the sad suckfest that was Napoleon Dynamite. Watching Hot Rod made me wonder why anyone liked Napoleon Dynamite in the first place. I laughed my mean-spirited butt off during this movie. Tina come get some dinner, indeed.
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