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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 23484
Released: November 7, 2006 |
| Our Price: $4.00 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The popular girl the jock bully the new kid the dancing hottie...they're all here in this Totally Awesome spoof of your favorite '80s movies.DVD Extras:The unrated version that was Too hot for TV!Choice commentary with Neal Brennan and Tracy Morgan!Gnarly deleted scences and more!System Requirements:Run Time: 93 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 097368012349 Manufacturer No: 801234
Description of Totally Awesome:
As Ben Stein notes in his introduction, Totally Awesome has a lot in common with "the great teen movies of the 1980s," like Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Karate Kid, and Teen Wolf. (To that list, you can add Pretty in Pink, Soul Man, Weird Science, and Some Kind of Wonderful.) He doesn't let on that it's a spoof, presenting it as a lost classic from 1986. As with Footloose--or 1990's Beverly Hills 90210--two siblings move to a new town just in time for the school year. In this case, Charlie (Mikey Day) and Lori (Dominique Swain) relocate from Pennsylvania to California. He's a senior, she's a junior. She wants to dance. He just wants to be cool, like Kipp (Joey Kern) and girlfriend Kimberly (Brittany Daniel). Naturally, dancing is not allowed. As expected, the two plucky teens find ways to achieve their goals. Just as predictable as the plot is the dialogue, which couldn't be clunkier, and the acting, which couldn’t be more over-the-top (Swain's screaming, for instance, get old fast). Still, like the Scary Movie series it emulates, there's a laugh or two to be had, and Day is a likable lead. Written and directed by Neil Brennan (Half Baked, Chappelle's Show), this VH1 production features 1980s tunes from the likes of A-Ha, Cinderella, Wang Chung, and Katrina and the Waves, along with appearances from Chris Kattan, Tracy Morgan, James Hong, and Tone-Loc performing "Crazy Stuff," the prototype for "Wild Thing." --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Totally Awesome Reviews:
awesome 80's 
2008-04-18 - Only really funny thing is the tracy morgan parts ..If you are a fan of his then pick this up other wise forget it ... its a bad version of the scary movie themes of the 80's
Must buy! 
2008-04-12 - Enjoyed the references to Soul Man, Footloose, Breaking, etc. I think I would enjoy this type of movie cause I graduated from high school in the 80's.
80's given a 2000 kick
2007-10-25 - If you are nostagic for the clothes, music, vocabulary and personas of the 80's... this movie is for you!!!!
Fun for the 80s in all of us!
2007-08-09 - Totally Awesome takes a variety of 80s teen films and melds them all together. Several mainstream actors are abundant and you will not be left out of in the laughs, as this movie will over dramatize several things you may find familiar. The social issues are still sweet and comical as well as the hairstyles and music. The 80s were a fun time when they were happening, so have fun reliving them or at least laughing at some of the films like sixteen candles or the breakfast club which have some presence in this film.
A nice surprise 
2007-07-18 - Creators of embarassingly lame and un-funny spoof films like "Date Movie" and "Epic Movie" need to take notice. "Totally Awesome" might not be the funniest movie I've ever seen, (an honor still reserved for "Dumb and Dumber") but this movie succeeds as a far better spoof of its source material (the 80's) than either of those two movies combined. Instead of just loosely stitching together movie spoofs into a stupid and completely non-sensical plot (like the aforementioned duds), "Totally Awesome" is able to both spoof movies ("The Karate Kid", "Footloose", etc.) and weave them together into a decent story all its own. Even if you haven't seen many of the movies lampooned here, you should still have no problem enjoying the story as its presented. There's no punishment for those who aren't "in" on the joke, nor does the movie fall flat on its face without knowledge of the references. Let's see "Date Movie", "Epic Movie" or even "Scary Movie 4" make that claim. "Totally Awesome" is a funny and likable movie with a fair share of interesting and funny characters. Mikey Day is very charismatic as the likeable Charlie and Dominique Swain is completely hilarious with all her psychotic outbursts. (Seriously-these blow ups alone are worth the price of a rental!!) I'd like to see more movie spoofs done this way in the future and less like "Date Movie".
