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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 28918
Released: May 25, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Cast your ballot for big laughs when Gene Hackman and Ray Romano find themselves in a hilariously heated race for mayor of Mooseport, Maine. A local plumber (Romano) is plunged into the national spotlight when he takes on the former President of the United States (Hackman), who can't believe he's running against the man installing his toilets! To make matters worse, the ex-prez is trying to steal the election -- and the affection of the handyman's girlfriend (Maura Tierney). Whoever wins, one thing's for sure: this town isn't small enough for the both of them!
Description of Welcome To Mooseport (Widescreen Edition):
Welcome to Mooseport is such a blandly likable comedy that your grandmother could watch it and wish for a little sex and violence to keep her awake. Perhaps the phenomenal popularity of TV's Everybody Loves Raymond made Ray Romano proceed too cautiously in selecting this small-town comedy as his film debut; without a live audience and an endless supply of punchy one-liners at his disposal, his domestic everyman persona seems a bit lost, ill-defined and uncertain how to respond when a former U.S. President (Gene Hackman) (1) moves to the quiet, jovial Maine burg of Mooseport, where Romano's the beloved plumber and hardware store proprietor; (2) proceeds to make moves on Ray's long-time girlfriend (Maura Tierney, from ER); and (3) runs against our ol' pal Ray in Mooseport's homespun mayoral election. Hackman's got some stellar support from Marcia Gay Harden and Rip Torn (and, to a lesser degree, Fred Savage), and Tierney's a pleasure as always, but director Donald Petrie (Miss Congeniality) can't spin gold from straw; Tom Schulman's screenplay aims to please everyone, draining the energy from what might, in other hands, have been a deliciously devious premise. There's such a thing as being "niced" to death, and Welcome to Mooseport is proof. --Jeff Shannon
Welcome To Mooseport (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
small town genre 
2008-09-12 - 9/12/08 Actors*: Romano,Hackman, Harden,Tierney,Baranski,Torn and Savage help to elevate what is considered atypical jargon and scenarios in the way small towns and its people are depicted...There are no real surprises expected on how the movie will end .The expression, there are no small parts just small actors ring true here... this cast of *strong actors* & a couple of the second bananas are able to keep the scenes from being mediocre. 9/12/08 abj
Funny Movie 
2008-04-12 - I loved this movie, a little comedy, a little romance, just a good movie to buy!
Funny and Dry 
2007-08-12 - Romano and Hackman make a good pair, but there were long periods of dry spells and just plain painful scenes. This was a great movie to watch, wouldn't recommend that you add it to your library though. This is a typical everything that you can decide about a relationship that you should type movie, mixed in with a typical small town and a egotistical ex-president. The only question that remains is what else could go wrong.
HAD some funny moments
2007-07-28 - Some of the reviewers are abit harsh on this film. Now its not caddyshack but this had a funny premise and its share of laughs. HACKMAN plays an EX POPULAR PRESIDENT who somehow gets in a mayor race in MOOSEPORT vs a local PLUMMER. Some of the reviewers obviously need a feather to make them laugh but if you take this film for what it is you will enjoy it. I was never bored watching it and thought some of the situations that developed were quite humorous and funny. I mean an ex PRESIDENT running in a tight race for mayor vs a local plummer is funny to me.
Welcome To Mooseport (Full Screen Edition)
2007-03-21 - What a funny movie!! Ray Ramano and Gene Hackman are the perfect adversaries. A must see!!
