The Replacements (2000)
The players of professional football go on strike with four weeks to go in the season and the owners decide to call in replacement players to finish out the year. Gene Hackman plays the...
The players of professional football go on strike with four weeks to go in the season and the owners decide to call in replacement players to finish out the year. Gene Hackman plays the...
Eddie Murphy is back as nearly the entire cast of Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, once again reminding us why he was the superstar that he was back in the 1980s. In this outing, Sherman (Murphy)...
Based on Roger Rueff’s stage play “Hospitality Suite” (which he adapts for the big screen himself), this tells the story of one night in a hotel hospitality suite with three lubricant salesman attending a...
Here’s the surprise of all surprises for the year 2000. What you read in the following few paragraphs does not have any sarcasm, I haven’t taken a nasty fall on my head, and Disney...
A parody on the teen slasher movies that have come out of late (and a few other popular films like The Matrix and Usual Suspects), Scary Movie takes on the difficult task of spoofing films that really aren’t meant...
by Vincent Leo · Published June 25, 2000 · Last modified February 25, 2019
The Wallace and Gromit duo of Peter Lord and Nick Park turn in their first big feature film with successful results. This wholly animated feature deals with a chicken farm and the many attempts of the...
I suppose those looking for a goofball comedy full of easy laughs and memorable gross-out moments will be pleased with Road Trip enough to find it worthwhile. Going into it, gross and stupid humor is...
Nick Marshall (Gibson) is an ad exec with aspirations of heading the company division. He is also a misogynist womanizer with not a shred of respect for the opposite gender. When the company realizes that...
1960s / Comedy / Drama / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published May 29, 2000 · Last modified February 25, 2019
Here’s another one of those reviews that is probably bound to disappoint a few readers. I’m aware that this film is a favorite for many, particularly for women and fans of Hepburn. I don’t...
Chon Wang (Chan) — which not so coincidentally sounds like John Wayne — is an Imperial Guard in China, sworn to protect the Emperor and his family. Princess Pei Pei (Liu) is kidnapped and Chon joins...
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