Showing posts with label teeth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teeth. Show all posts

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Teeth (2007) (A re-review)



I've come under intense criticism from several parties for my enthusiastic review and 5-star rating of Teeth. Apparently I underestimated the incredible influence that this blog has on the DVD rental activity of the average American family. I may have acted a little bit recklessly by giving this one top scores. After all, who really needs to see the vagina dentata movie right now, or ever? But I still think it's a very funny film. And because 99% of horror movies are so bad, especially those that make it into theaters, I find movies like this that make fun of the genre and take things to such an absurd extreme to be very refreshing. And I wouldn't include garbage like Scary Movie in this category, which is cheap and easy parody of other popular garbage, as opposed to more intelligent self-parody like Re-Animator or Evil Dead. Most viewers should have a pretty good idea of whether or not they will enjoy Teeth, as long as that idea is based on whether or not they think the concept is a funny one for a satirical movie, and they are not expecting to be terrified by the toothed vagina.
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Monday, May 12, 2008

Teeth (2007)



There are some males out there (and females too, I'm sure) who are simply morally opposed to the existence of a film featuring the severing of penises. And that's too bad, because this one is hilarious. Jess Weixler won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance for her role and I think in some alternate universe she was nominated for an Academy Award. After all, she is a fine actress and a beautiful girl. Some critics complained that the movie only had one trick, but making Dawn an abstinence advocate for local Christian groups was a brilliant touch, and at 88 minutes it really doesn't need any other gimmicks or plot devices besides a vagina with teeth.
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