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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 30319
Released: November 23, 1999 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Bill Murray plays a hip camp counselor at a summer facility for geeky kids and assorted losers. Murray's brand of ironic comedy feels grafted onto this banal and sentimental 1979 celebration of misfits. The comedian's frequent director, Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters), was still finding his sea legs with this one, and he nearly convinced everyone at the time that Murray's film career was never going to happen. --Tom Keogh
Meatballs Reviews:
funny!! 
2009-08-25 - i've seen this movie when it first came out. i enjoyed it and thought it was funny with bill murray. its a real good summer time movie. it'll make you laugh
a different kind of review
2009-03-11 - i was 10 in 1979 when meatballs was released. i was a young snl fan of the 75 to 80 gang a poster of them to this day hangs on my wall in a far corner to remind me how much the late 70's mid 80's meant to me
i first saw this movie like 1941 animal house blues brothers caddyshack the jerk foul play vacation stripes of the era and reminds me of how i lived the era these people and my time as a kid
i saw meatballs in the theater and really a few times on tv and on the ol vhs copy the 80's version not the 90's nor the 97 dvd.
I saw this 30 th anniversary and Im sorry to say this...well I cried.
I saw this film when it was in mono and the picture was grainy.
This print and sound was so intense I felt like I was there when it was being done, the film print beautiful the sound totally redone
and the movie is actually like i remembered ...excellent
I think its been over 20 years since i saw it
This was I think my favorite of all Bill Murray works
he was peaking in sat night live and all that greatness of him followed him to this role
I feel like Chris Makepeace quiet kid hard to make friends and frankly I needed a Bill Murray in my life
I cant put my foot on it but somehow this film now goes by so fast it just whizzes by you...it freaked me out...it seemed slower more paced...
it is a short movie but very well done. each scene. The music I remember as well which fit the movie. Just a warm hearted funny tender movie
but like I said watching the redo is like watching the same movie but in a different way. Like I said it was made in 1979 and in those days they didnt have the technology to bring the print out like they did with this version...just had that essence mono grainy transfer look to it
Im dedicated this to the people who understand this review.
Kids of the 70's and understand the feeling of that era.
Older people and younger people may not understand what Im writing
if you 8 or 10 around 1978 1980 there was a very sensitive warm moment that was there. Im sorry but it will never happen again.
The 60 70's for life music art movies (maybe not politics but who cares)
was so special organic analog and just joyful I weep for the era and my fellow friends of the era who understand this review
MH
Nostalgic 
2008-12-16 - I was surprised at how young bill Murray looked. It was also strange to see all those old cars and hair cuts that I once remembered as new. As a historical remembrance Meatsballs was much more interesting that otherwise viewed outside that context.
Overall meatballs was still kind of funny with a couple of real gems in there. The "It just doesn't matter" chant was fantastic, as well as Bill Murray protending to be the other camps director.
I also noticed the film seemed to have more of a romantic innocence than many modern day films. Though the counselors seemed to always be trying to get some, in the end they were portrayed as romantic with long term interest. I felt this more healthy than many T.V. sitcoms where the characters jumped from relationship to relationship.
In short Meatballs is the type of film you view every ten years and laugh at a couple of really good scenes, smirk your way through the rest, and marvel at how old you must be getting.
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2008-08-20 - This should be or perhaps it is a cult classic. This is one of my favorite older movies. Bill Murray while he's no super funny in Meatballs, his humor shines along with the cast of mostly non-stars. Harvey Atkins is the Camp Director Morty (Not Mickey!) Melnick who tries to keep order at Camp North Star while at the same time his counselors and counselors-in-training (CIT's for short) keep their hormones and hijinks in check. Naturally the leader of his counselors on the male side is Tripper Harris (Bill Murray) and on the female side you have Roxanne who Trip loves but the feeling isn't mutual. Throw in the fact that Morty/Mickey constantly finds himself waking up in unpleasant fashion. Whether it's high on a tree (including his side table with his alarm clock) or floating on a raft on a lake out in the middle of nowhere. But who is responsible?
Hijinks are plenty in this 70's classic. This leads up to the Camp Olympics between the very rich Camp Mohawk and the not-so-rich Camp North Star. Camp Mohawk always seem to beat there near neighbor, Camp North Star. Will they defeat North Star again? Will Trip win over Roxanne? WIll Morty/Mickey be able to sleep in peace?
The special addition adds director Ivan Reitman's commentary, the making of the movie Meatballs, and support for 5.1 audio. It's in widescreen format and the picture looks great, even for a 30 year old movie. It stars a very young Bill Murray, Chris Makepeace, Kate Lynch, Kristine DeBell, and Harvey Atkin.
Great Memories of the '70's
2008-06-17 - The story of a summer camp and it's head counselor played by Bill Murray. Some really funny scenes regarding the camp director, they all call him Mickey, his name is Morty.
But the best part of all is that "It just doesn't matter " speech that Bill Murray improvises before the big contest between Murray's camp and the rich kids camp down the road. It's a moment on film when you could see the mind that developed his great characters on SNL.
I was in college and the University of Wisconsin was not having the best football seasons. WE often cheered " It JUST DOESN'T MATTER, IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER" between body passing and the band flashing out on the field.
Great movie and a lovely love song "Moondust by Terry Black" . Even if you hate this type of movie, watch it just to listen to this song. It's worth it.
Plus who doesn't like a movie about kids and camp.......
