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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 43628
Released: January 25, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
So many stars?so little sympathy! Leave it to legendary Hollywood "weasel" Pauly Shore to fake his own death and chronicle the hilarious reactions from dozens of A-list celebrities in this outrageous dark comedy that raises the eternal show business question: Is it better to be a dead genius or a living idiot?
Description of Pauly Shore Is Dead:
Pauly Shore, one-time MTV personality and faded comic star of Bio-Dome and Jury Duty, wrote and directed this satire about his own career decline and (fictional) attempt to revive Hollywood's interest by faking his suicide. The fun of this movie is in never being quite sure how much of the story is based on Shore's real-life status as a has-been, and how much is inspired by public assumptions about his near-disappearance from the entertainment scene. In any case, watching Shore's dubious run as a stand-up comedian and actor wind down has, in Shore's own telling, some very funny moments, including a scene in which cash-rich, prop comic Carrot Top buys the former Wiezel's house and another in which Shore tries to secure the services of a Heidi Fleiss escort for $84. Lots of celebrity cameos here (Shore obviously still has show-business friends), including Ben Stiller, Britney Spears, Bill Maher, Charlie Sheen, Tom Sizemore, and Ellen DeGeneres. --Tom Keogh
Pauly Shore Is Dead Reviews:
Not worth you're time 
2009-07-15 - I did not like anything about this movie. I did not go into it expecting much except that I read the back of the movie and thought it would be good, I even read reviews and thought maybe it has something I like pauly shore and have seen him in numerous movies but because this was different I thought it would be good. I was let down allot it brought nothing what so ever, I don't even think the acting if that is what you call it was good. The reviews that say it was a good movie may deffinatly let you down because that is what it did to me. DON'T SEE THIS MOVIE! it is not worth your time.
Great idea, terrible production 
2008-09-29 - This would have worked much better if Pauly had someone get reactions from celebrities (even fake ones) from the red carpet. But he didn't.
Instead Pauly produces a lame, laughless series of scenes featuring "himself" and other semi-celebs being "Not-Funny". althought he scene with Carrot Top buying Pauly's house is pretty funny.
Overall the film falls flat trying to be both surreal and funny, leaving the viewer saying, "What?" a lot.
Ugh
2008-09-15 - The screenplay, if one can call this one note monstrosity that, was written by Shore and some guy named Kirk Fox, yet it all smacks of being a vanity project, laced with bad one liners where the B listers try to recall who Shore was, after his `death', then rail against him when exposed. You know you're film is in trouble when a supposedly funny scripted line by Chris Rock, `No Pauly. [blank] you. Stay dead,' turns out to be the most genuine reaction to this film. My only consolation is that the DVD was cheap and this review will hopefully deter any other potential viewers from lining Shore's pockets. You have to take small victories wherever you can get them, sometimes.
The worst movie I have ever seen.
2007-07-20 - I usually shy away from discouraging others from watching a movie, because who knows what their taste is, right? But this was the biggest waste of my time I have ever experienced. It was so bad in every way, and not in a kitchy-b movie kind of way, just bad. They tried to make it looked home filmed, which just came off as cheap and bad. They had the same few actors commenting repeatedly, which was bad. Pauly's performance was so whiny and annoying that by the end of the movie I WANTED him to be dead. I would rather sit at the dentist's office getting my teeth drilled out with no painkillers than ever watch this movie again.
Please read this Pauly Shore 
2007-04-01 - You might want to reconsider titles like this when you ever get the chance to do another film. In this case, it seems too much like prophecy.
