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List Price: $19.95 | | Label: Vanguard Cinema
Salesrank: 44101
Released: July 28, 2005 |
| Our Price: $6.95 |
| Used Price: $3.94 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
When a plane load of beauty contestants are transported from the u.S. To japan for a pgeant the plane goes off course & crash lands on a deserted island. There the castaways find noahs ark & the consequences threaten the universe! this spoofs todays biggest blockbuster films. Studio: Vanguard Cinema Release Date: 07/26/2005 Starring: Michael Jackson Evan Marriott Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr
Miss Cast Away & The Island Girls Reviews:
This film is NOT a comedy! 
2009-11-23 - There are many shocks associated with this movie. The most obvious is that Michael Jackson actually appears in the film, and it is not just a lookalike as in other film parodies. Reading the credits provides a few major shocks: I couldn't believe there was actually a director of photography working on this film (film students deliver more professional looking results) or that there are people credited for the special effects (YOU can do better on your home computer). I'm shocked by how this film is categorized: as a comedy? Really? Just because it mixes together characters and situations from different movies in the guise of a parody doesn't qualify it for being a comedy. In order to fit this qualification, there really is only one requirement: an occasional joke! Unfortunately the director did not hire a writer but insists on writing his own work, providing another shock: how could a person go so long without grasping the concept of humor? Has anyone EVER told him a joke? I'm not exaggerating or being mean; there's not one joke in this film? Writer/director Bryan Michael Stoller (if you're asking Who? there's no shock there) demonstrates what he THINKS is funny early in the film when two characters whose cell phone connection cuts out yell "Can you hear me?" into their phones over and over. Are you rolling on your sides? Stoller expects you to.
If you doubt that Stoller does not understand comedy, consider this shocker: there is actually one person who delivers a good performance in this film (yes, I know, that in itself is a shock) and the director hardly uses him at all. The person I am referring to is the one who delivers a very convincing impersonation of Austin Powers; this person should have been the star of the film. If he was, there might have been some actual humor, even accidentally, injected into this intended-comedy. (Or maybe it wasn't intended to be a comedy and Stoller was trying to do a sci-fi adventure?) The film stars Eric Roberts (I'd be shocked if you're shocked at this) and Charlie Schlatter (who sadly could never again regain the acclaim he achieved for 18 Again!) and a cast of bikini-clad beauties. No, their bikinis never come off, and yes that would have been an obvious way to make this movie infinitely more watchable. I suppose Stoller deserves some credit in the virtue department for not taking that route, but it seriously WOULD have made watching this film less of a painful experience.
The biggest shock of all of course is that this movie was actually produced, and I'd be seriously shocked if Stoller is proud of his completed product. If you can imagine what it would be like to have a robot with a computer program that tells it HOW to create a parody, but which otherwise has no inherent ability to develop humor on its own, you might have some idea what this film is like. The ingredients are all there, but there is no chef to make anything of them, and so they are all spoiling and waiting to be tossed into the trash (which, by the way, is the perfect place to deposit this film).
Miss-cast (this) away & The, Sorry. I can't do this with a straight face.
2009-10-06 - Wow. How do crappy movies like this get made? I guess it helps when you know some of the "stars". Have you ever heard that if given enough time, a monkey on a typewriter could come up with something? Here you go. If you really must see this movie, be warned. This is time out of your life you will NEVER get back and you WILL regret it. Maybe I'm being too harsh. After all, there are people out there who think SPACEBALLS is the funniest movie ever made. My guess is that a majority of them wear helmets.
interesting 
2009-09-07 - This is such a cute spoof on so many of the great movies. Eric Roberts part is just great, and Michael is his usual stellar self. It is so cute and not taking it as serious you can laugh at the things that they all go through.
AMAZON SELLS BOOTLEG DVD's
2009-08-19 - I can not believe that AMAZON participates in selling pirated, counterfeit DVD's. I can't imagine the thousands of individuals that have been duped into thinking they are buying a legitimate DVD because they are buying from AMAZON directly and not an individual seller. The federal government should investigate this place. It is horrible that they would engage in this type of business whether they are giving refunds or not. Counterfeit DVD's are such a huge issue and it's one thing if an individual places bootlegs for sale here but for AMAZON to partake is really just disgusting and really, really aggrivating when you receive what amounts to a $1 piece of junk you could have purchased out on the street.
Funny 
2009-07-26 - This movie is funny to certian groups of people, if you like movies like scary movie and austin powers this is your kind of movie.
