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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 8859
Released: June 3, 2008 |
| Our Price: $5.74 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This just in...The Onion invades DVD! Based on the wildly popular newspaper hailed by The New Yorker as â??the funniest publication in the United States,â? The Onion Movie brings you uncensored, uninhibited, UNRATED news and views from around the world. In a stunning development, when Onion News anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is asked to compromise his journalistic integrity to please a new corporate sponsor, he doesnâ??t just get mad, he gets...angry. Taking aim at pop stars, prisoners, peace talks and, of course, high-testosterone action films, The Onion Movie delivers hard-hitting headlinesâ?"and side-splitting laughs!
Description of The Onion Movie:
Shelved since 2003 then released straight to DVD, the feature-length Onion Movie is based on the satirical nationwide newspaper The Onion, which works better in print than on celluloid. That said, hardcore Onion fans will appreciate this effort to enliven text with filmed comedic sketches that strongly resemble Saturday Night Live news and National Lampoon. Directors Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire translate what would normally read as sarcastic headlines into slapstick skits starring three news reporters, Norm Archer (Len Cariou), Larissa Laskin (Dana Dobbs), and Scott Klace (Kip Kendall), reporting on idiotic events either live or in the studio. The newsreel opens, for example, with a report from Archer on the dangers of "neck belts" in automobiles, that have lately been decapitating drivers. Spoofs on everyone and everything, from slutty teen stars, racial stereotyping, the handicapped, to military recruitment officials turned peaceful by marijuana, add plenty of characteristically perverse and iffy Onion humor to this odd film. The Onion Movie relies loosely on a plot in which Norm Archer, devoted anchorman, protests a toy penguin interrupting his screen time in the name of advertising an upcoming film, Cockpuncher, that the network’s corporate sponsor, Global Tetrahedron, has funded. This facetious action film featuring Steven Seagal, looks a little too life-like after Norm takes measures to fight the power. At an hour and a half, news skits interrupted by fake commercials and Archer’s fits of rage feel played out, though skit-to-skit, the news broadcasts are quite hilarious, making the film an overall winner if you’re in the mood for mockery. --Trinie Dalton
The Onion Movie Reviews:
If you're bored one night, take a look 
2009-11-09 - Bizarre!! But interesting. I find their books more interesting than this movie. But if you like irony and/or strange humor, you'll get a laugh or two from the movie. It is a nice departure from the typical hollywood fare.
Pretty Funny..But Can See Why It Was Shelved For So Long
2009-10-31 - Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3ENSZST1AJBRK
Not So Good, Not So Bad
2009-10-12 - Obviously "The Onion Movie" is by far better than such incredibly unfunny parody films as "Date Movie" or "Disaster Movie." Still, the filmic version of "America's finest news source" proves that it is extremely hard to make a successful feature-length sketch comedy. David Zucker is credited as one of the producers of "The Onion Movie," but the film somehow lacks the abundance of creativity of "Airplane!"
This is not to say the comedy skits in "The Onion Movie" are all unfunny. Some jokes are funny (with hilariously wooden Steven Seagal and his self-parody as the star of one stupidly titled action movie). The loosely connected story about the anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou), who is not happy about the company's new policies, goes nowhere, and some jokes of the film (a Britney Spears parody, for instance) are dated, but they can be overlooked. The film was made in 2003 and subsequently shelved for five years.
But you know the film's delayed straight-to-DVD release is not a good sign and actually "The Onion Movie" does not work as a whole. The film tends to draw out the sketches, some of which are still underwritten. I know some jokes are meant to be rude and offensive, but some of them are just offensive, not very funny (like the "who's the rapist" game"). Maybe with someone like John Cleese these flat and unfunny skits could have been something different.
"The Onion Movie" is a hit-and-miss comedy, a typical case of not so good, not so bad.
america's critic 
2009-09-12 - this was by far dumb!!!! unrated huh another 1 that is pg that says unrated nothing special--- dont waste any time with this just pure spoiled like an onion!!
awesome 
2009-09-04 - Purchase was quick and simple. Item shipped quickly; was recieved within a couple days.
