Not giving Jack Black the Best Actor Oscar for School of Rock is one of society’s greatest errors, because it is genuinely one of the most wonderful, full-bodied comedic performances of all time.
Vinnie MancusoĬast: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White, Miranda Cosgrove, Joey Gaydos Jr., Kevin Clark This movie is an indulgent, wild good time of a romp that includes everything from Robert Patrick cameo-ing as his T2 Terminator to Schwarzenegger playing himself to a brief appearance by Danny DeVito as the voice of a feline police detective named Whiskers. When a magic ticket sends young cinephile Danny Madigan ( Austin O’Brien) through the silver screen, he teams up with his favorite action icon, Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger) to stop the villainous Benedict (Charles Dance) from entering the real world. –Vinnie MancusoĬast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O’Brien, Charles Dance, Robert ProskyĪrnold Schwarzenegger spoofing the excess and explosions of an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie inside a story that also functions as a pretty incredible Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie? There is simply too much to love about Last Action Hero, director John McTernan‘s send-up and love letter to the over-the-top shoot-em-ups of the 1990s. The scenery gets chewed to pieces across this entire madcap circus of a movie which, it must be stated, made iconic use of Smashmouth’s “All-Star” two years before Shrek. Bringing aboard the likes of the Bowler ( Janeane Garofalo), the Spleen ( Paul Ruebens), and Invisible Boy ( Kel Mitchell), the Z-tier crew of disrespected heroes is tasked with saving not only Amazing, but the entire world. Macy), and utensil-throwing Blue Raja ( Hank Azaria) are having trouble recruiting when madman Casanova Frankenstein ( Geoffrey Rush) captures the Earth’s mightiest hero, Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear). Furious ( Ben Stiller), the garden tool-wielding Shoveler ( William H. The extremely unsuccessful superhero trio of the rage-fueled Mr. But like most works of staggering genius, it just took a while for Mystery Men to get recognized as a deeply strange, genuinely funny capes-and-costumes pre-2000s gem.
Ten years before superhero movies fully took over Hollywood, director Kinka Usher and an ensemble cast of some of the best bit player of all time debuted a comic book comedy send-up, Mystery Men, and it was a…complete and total box office bomb. Cast: Ben Stiller, William H Macy, Hank Azaria, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Rueben, Kel Mitchell, Geoffrey Rush
0 kommentar(er)
