Aging Movie Reviews

This has long been one of my favorite Christmas movies. For years we watched the VHS version. Then in early 2002, when I saw that it had been "digitally remastered" and issued on DVD, I ordered the DVD. It arrived in February 2002. Of course, we didn't watch it until the Christmas season returned this month. And we were shocked by how bad the disc looked. The image had a "washed out" look - - grey even. The sound was muddy, with pops and clicks and occasional lipsync problems. The tape looked much better and, indeed, since we gave away our copy of the tape, I have reordered it. Perhaps some day there will be a remastered version of this very funny film on DVD. Meanwhile, stay clear of this one.

As Mighty Mouse's heroine, Pearl Pureheart, once remarked in the face of Oilcan Harry's buzzsaw, "I'll never give up hope...he's my favorite comedian." Thank God we don't have to give up hope, either...Bob Hope, that is, as we have this American icon forever preserved on video and DVD. And "The Lemon Drop Kid" is pure Hope at the top of his comedic game, surrounded by a five-star cast including Jane Darwell, Fred Clark and William Frawley (who later gained his own icon status as Fred Mertz on "I Love Lucy"). Adding to its luster, Hope introduced the Christmas classic, "Silver Bells", in the film. Buy it and enjoy it, because you'll treasure this cinematic gem over and over, especially during the Holidays!

This review is for the movie only, not the DVD quality.

Bob Hope portrays a lemon drop eating race track hustler who hustles a local crime boss out of $10,000. Hope is given until Christmas to get the money together. Hope goes to NYC and cons his girlfriend, friends and local thugs into dressing up in Santa suits and collecting money for a senior citizens home for "old dolls." Hope intends to make off with the donations and pay off his debt to the crime boss. However, a NYC crime boss figures out what Hope is up to and blows the whistle on Hope and takes over the Santa donation scheme himself. Hope then redeems himself by entraping the two crime bosses, making sure the senior citizen home gets the donations and he gets his girl back. It would seem that Hope's character has finally learned the Christmas message, that it is better to give than to receive.

This is probably my favorite Bob Hope film. He is excellent as a scheming hustler type. It seems to come natural to him. The film makes great use of character actors from the 30,s 40's and 50's in the films various supporting roles. Marilyn Maxwell is a real treat to look at and has great chemistry with Hope. The song Silver Bells is beautiful and fits the film perfectly. I think my favorite scene is where Hope is dressed as an elderly woman trying to describe what he is knitting to the other elderly woman. It was a mop that goes so well with his argyle scrub bucket.

If you like Bob Hope, Christmas movies or comedies than you'll probably like this film.

This has long been one of my favorite Christmas movies. For years we watched the VHS version. Then in early 2002, when I saw that it had been "digitally remastered" and issued on DVD, I ordered the DVD. It arrived in February 2002. Of course, we didn't watch it until the Christmas season returned this month. And we were shocked by how bad the disc looked. The image had a "washed out" look - - grey even. The sound was muddy, with pops and clicks and occasional lipsync problems. The tape looked much better and, indeed, since we gave away our copy of the tape, I have reordered it. Perhaps some day there will be a remastered version of this very funny film on DVD. Meanwhile, stay clear of this one.

As Mighty Mouse's heroine, Pearl Pureheart, once remarked in the face of Oilcan Harry's buzzsaw, "I'll never give up hope...he's my favorite comedian." Thank God we don't have to give up hope, either...Bob Hope, that is, as we have this American icon forever preserved on video and DVD. And "The Lemon Drop Kid" is pure Hope at the top of his comedic game, surrounded by a five-star cast including Jane Darwell, Fred Clark and William Frawley (who later gained his own icon status as Fred Mertz on "I Love Lucy"). Adding to its luster, Hope introduced the Christmas classic, "Silver Bells", in the film. Buy it and enjoy it, because you'll treasure this cinematic gem over and over, especially during the Holidays!

This review is for the movie only, not the DVD quality.

Bob Hope portrays a lemon drop eating race track hustler who hustles a local crime boss out of $10,000. Hope is given until Christmas to get the money together. Hope goes to NYC and cons his girlfriend, friends and local thugs into dressing up in Santa suits and collecting money for a senior citizens home for "old dolls." Hope intends to make off with the donations and pay off his debt to the crime boss. However, a NYC crime boss figures out what Hope is up to and blows the whistle on Hope and takes over the Santa donation scheme himself. Hope then redeems himself by entraping the two crime bosses, making sure the senior citizen home gets the donations and he gets his girl back. It would seem that Hope's character has finally learned the Christmas message, that it is better to give than to receive.

This is probably my favorite Bob Hope film. He is excellent as a scheming hustler type. It seems to come natural to him. The film makes great use of character actors from the 30,s 40's and 50's in the films various supporting roles. Marilyn Maxwell is a real treat to look at and has great chemistry with Hope. The song Silver Bells is beautiful and fits the film perfectly. I think my favorite scene is where Hope is dressed as an elderly woman trying to describe what he is knitting to the other elderly woman. It was a mop that goes so well with his argyle scrub bucket.

If you like Bob Hope, Christmas movies or comedies than you'll probably like this film.

Frist off, That Girl is a fun retro television show.My complaint lies within this DVD pressing.There is a problem as others complained about soon after the 5th (Chicken) episode starts. They're is a bad layer change durning this show that may cause your dvd player to act crazy.Mine (Panasonic) was a problem where the picture started to jerk for the rest of the episode.I am surprized that this disc wasn't recalled by Anchor Bay!It's been out since 2001!Then again i haven't been able to locate this DVD in any stores in New York, so maybe it was...The people who say that they aren't having problems may have either haven't noticed this or have players that just didn't get affected by it.Something wasn't coded right at the pressing plaint.I love the dual layer format as long as they are encoded correctly.Also it has been a long time since this release of "That Girl - Vol. 1" doesn't look like it did too well since there is no mention of a second disc being made.

Because of the other reviews knocking the DVD, I put off purchasing this one. I finally did it though, and I'll never regret it. I spent a wonderful day sharing some of my past with my daughter. I found absolutely NO glitches in the DVD. The picture was clear and so was the sound. It was as innocent and entertaining as I remember. It's hard to pick which episode I liked best, because they were ALL truely good, But I guess if pressed, I'd have to say that the best was the one at the end where Marlo's father makes his appearance and sings with Marlo. But all the shows they picked for this disc were very good. I smiled and laughed all afternoon. I know that my daughter and I will watch this disc MANY times.

You have to give Marlo Thomas, daughter of television legend Danny Thomas ("Make Room for Daddy"), for starting a definite trend in situation comedies with "That Girl," which aired on ABC from 1966 to 1971; a lot of us remember the show from when ABC showed reruns during the day from 1969 to 1972). In the wake of "That Girl" came other comedies about Independent Women such as "The Doris Day Show," "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," and "Rhoda." Marlo Thomas played Ann Marie, a perky young actress who left the home of her father (Lew Parker) and mother (Rosemary DeCamp) in Brewster, New York, to make it on her own in New York City. Since all she could find where roles in television commercials and small parts in plays here and there, she had to support herself with a lot of odd jobs around town. This provided ample opportunity for new venues for comic encounters between new characters and "That Girl." Along for the ride was Donald Hollinger (Ted Bessell), a junior executive at "Newsview" magazine who spent all five seasons trying to get "That Girl" down the aisle.

This first DVD gives us nine choice episodes from the show's entire run:

(1) The pilot episode "Don't Just Do Something, Stand There" (September 8, 1966) begins our saga as Ann is working as a candy clerk and meets Donald. When he sees her again she is doing a perfume commercial where she gets kidnapped by two robbers. Donald thinks this is real and comes to her rescue with predictable results.

(2) "Anatomy of a Blunder" (Episode 5, October 6, 1966), has Ann bringing Donald home to meet her parents but making the mistake of stopping for a nice little picnic along the way.

(3) "Counter Proposal" (Episode 113, Season premier for Season 5, September 25, 1970) completes the informal "Donald Trilogy" that opens this disc with the moment when Donald finally asks Ann to marry him. That is the good news; the bad news is that his co-worker Bob Howard (Ronnie Schell) talks Donald into buying an engagement ring second hand from Mr. Franklin (Avery Schreiber). Note: This is the first episode to feature lyrics for the "That Girl" theme song.

(4) "Call of the Wild" (Episode 50, January 25, 1968) has Ann insulted when she is hired to be the Creamy Soap Girl because the producer (Jesse White) sees her as having the sort of face that will not make housewives jealous. Consequently, Ann is convinced she has no sex appeal, and that is not something for "That Girl" to take without a fight.

(5) "Nobody Here But Us Chickens" (Episode 90, October 9, 1969) continues the bad commercial gigs as Ann is hired by Major Culpepper (Slim Pickens) to be the Dancing Chicken for his friend chicken chain. When the Major tries to hit on her in his car, Ann hits the road (guess how she is dressed).

(6) "The Snow Must Go On" (Episode 93, October 30, 1969) finds Ann and Donald stuck with her parents at Kennedy Airport during a blizzard. Of course Ann has a Broadway audition to go to and nothing short of complete and total disaster will stop her.

(7) "This Little Piggy Had a Ball" (Episode 28, March 23, 1967),
has Ann enduring one the peculiar tribulations of sit com stars, getting something stuck in something at the wrong time. Just cross Lucy's bowling ball with Laura Petrie's toe, and you get the idea. Rob Reiner plays Carl and Teri Garr is Estelle in this episode.

(8) "Pass the Potatoes, Ethel Merman" (Episode 31, season premier for 2nd season, September 7,1 967) has the legendary Broadway star herself picking Ann for a walk on role in "Gypsy." You know this sounded like a good idea at the time. Merman would return later that season and become "The Other Woman" for Ann's father.

(9) "Those Friars" (Episode 127, January 8, 1971) features not only Danny Thomas but also "Mr. Television" himself, Milton Berle as guest stars. Strangely enough, the two television legends play themselves. It seems that Ann's uncle, an old vaudevillian has died, and the two pop out to try and buy the old trunk left to her in Uncle Harry's will.

I am not particularly enamored of the "That Girl" television series and its ability to end each and every teaser with the title phrase, but whoever selected these nine episodes did a pretty good job. There is no special "wedding" episode of the series because Donald only got as far as a stage party (plus Thomas did not want to send the wrong message to young women by making that the end of the series), but these episodes are certainly representative of what this show was about. You also have an impressive set of guest stars and it was a nice touch saving daddy for the last one. Yes, your favorite might not be included in these nine episodes--mine was "I Ain't Got Nobody," when Ann's face was put on someone else's body in the centerfold of "Playpen" magazine--but there is not a bad episode in this bunch.

A Brief History of Time is an uncomfortable combination of autobiography and a bibliography of some (generally Hawking dominated) concepts in cosmology. While it does go into more depth (and is slightly more entertaining) than Stephen Hawking's Universe does when it covers these topics, the movie is greatly distracted by anecdotes about his life. Some of these offer an entertaining glimpse into his life and personality, some into how certain of his and other scientests' ideas were come across, but others are pointless and annoying, and on the whole they distract from the science, which is really the most interesting topic the film could cover.

It does deserve some props for being, visually, slightly superior to Universe. The Phillip Glass soundtrack also provides a nice ambience throughout, but it often seems inappropriate, and would be much more enjoyable to hear on its own. A Brief History of Time is something to watch if you're interested in learning some details of Stephen Hawking's life, an introduction to his work, or were dissatisfied with Universe, but, even if it lacks visually, I feel Universe was much more inspiring during its better moments.

This short film is about a monumental cosmologist attempting to delve into the unknown in order to know it. It poses the question as to whether there is a God behind the universe or a self-contained boundless system running blindly by its own physical laws (or perhaps there is a God but one who is impersonal to the universe). Today there are two theories about the expansion of the universe. Some believe that it will continue to expand forever while others think it will slow down, contract, and collapse with the cycle continuing infinitely. Hawkings clearly thinks the latter is more plausible. This probably explains his agnostic stance on creationism, while many theologians would naturally be more inclined to reject the theory of a collapsing and expanding universe because it does seem to do away with the idea of a "beginning" and "end." As an ignoramus in the field of physics and cosmology, I found this film to be a good compliment to his book (which is a read somewhat difficult for a person without a background in physics). Hawking's idealism is vibrant as he sounds hopeful that scientists are close to developing a unified theory of the universe that will be explicable not only to philosophers and scientists, but to the average person as well. This films only flaw is that it doesn't have captions telling us who is being interviewed and what their relation is to Stephen, but that's only a minor one at most.

This delightful documentary gives a keen look at the intimate parts of Stephen Hawking's remarkable life. Interviews of friends, family members, and colleagues are artfully weaved with pictures of Hawking, computer graphic illustrations, and the commentary of Hawking himself. Along with the overview of Hawking's life we get fascinating bits of physics and philosophy that challenges his mind and everyone else's. If you have an interest in popular physics, then this would be a worthy purchase.

This isn't a spectacular documentary, it stays true to the accepted style that is both entertaining and at times predictable and plodding. It is humorous though, the opening scene involves a chicken and some stars, and much of Hawking's narration is filled with wry wit.

The First portion of the film is almost solely devoted to the early years of Professor Hawking's life. He wasn't good at school we learn surprisingly. He was never as attentive as he later wished he should have been. However, his genius was enough, and he got his degrees. However, it was being diagnosed with ALS that forced him to focus on what really interested him, the aftermath of which has been the cosmologist we know today.

Further into the movie there is a discussion of black holes, which is the subject of Hawking's first successes in physics. This segment alone I consider worth the price of admission, however an even stronger segment comes next; a discussion of the origin and outcome of the universe in which we live. It's all concluded by some whimsical observations by Hawking. This isn't a classic, but for those that don't have the time to jump into many works of cosmology and physics and philosophy, this provides entertainment and a fair dose of where physics stands today.

John Sayles returns to his Altmanesque "Lone Star" formula, with mixed results. Instead of a small town in Texas, a sleepy little resort community in Florida is put under the microscope. Once again, Sayles juggles about a half-dozen subplots that eventually tie together, although in a somewhat less compelling fashion than his Texas tale. The now-familiar Sayles themes of family ties, bittersweet love stories, culture clash and community traditions are trotted out and examined. The film opens strong, with greedy land developers descending on quirky small-town landowners, initially leading the viewer to think they are headed for a picaresque Carl Hiaasen-flavored social satire. Instead, we are given a deliberately paced, almost Mike Leigh ("Secrets and Lies")-style glimpse into the lives of several families. The various little epiphanies that result are, at best, only a little interesting. Sayles is an actor's director, and while that usually guarantees good performances (which this film does have), it doesn't necessarily guarantee a riveting story. In fact, there are so many good actors in the huge cast (Edie Falco, Tim Hutton, Angela Bassett, Ralph Waite, Jane Alexander, Mary Steenburgen, etc.) that it's almost distracting, since no one stays on screen for very long at any given time. Worth a look, and more intelligent than 95% of the current Hollywood offal, but not quite gripping enough to compare to Sayles' best work.

Land developers preying on naive and worldly-wise landowners in Florida isn't the most original idea, indeed it sounds dated, but this ensemble comedy-drama from Writer-Director John Sayles is as engaging as a warm ocean breeze on your favorite Floridian beach. All the interlocking stories of the potentially wealthy residents are entertaining and amusing but the film really belongs to Angela Bassett and James McDaniel as a woman returning to her home town with her husband, half-heartedly willing to confront unresolved family affairs and relationships. They provide a strong backbone to this gentle and funny film.

There are so many elements going on in this movie, it's hard to focus on which ones stand out the most.

First and foremost, as a Florida resident for 25 years, he nails the sleepy ocean-front atmosphere. The characters in relation to the land, their struggles with local government and big-time developers are utterly believable and accurately portrayed. The sense of community is delivered admirably with looks into the lives of a wide-range of citizens.

The characters are (for the most part) subtly woven together, no matter how disparate they initially appear. Marly, portrayed by Edie Falco, is my favorite. She's a not-quite-bitter-divorcee who has taken over the family's restaraunt/hotel business. A former Wikki Wachi (sp?) mermaid, this is *not* what she wants to do with her life. But because nothing better has come along, she stays and keeps her father happy.

Rather than one main plot, there are several sub-plots throughout the film. Desiree (Angela Bassett) reconciling herself with her mother and her past. Marly deciding what she wants and what she doesn't want. Exley (sp?) Plantation trying to buy out the town. Dr. Lloyd trying desperately to save the town. Mrs. Stokes wanting to save Terrell, or, at the least, redeem him. Jack just doing his job. Francine running the annual Buckaneer Day. Delia Temple making the best of her situation. Earl trying to kill himself. And the Florida Flash, whom no one really knows what it is he's doing back in town. All of this tied up neatly with four golfers, musing on the nature of the land.

It's a glorious movie. I've watched it four times already, and plan to watch it many more.

My 17-month old's 1st Barney DVD was Barney's Outdoor Fun and he loves watching and dancing with the kids. When the Let's Go to the Zoo DVD is on, he walks away from the TV. The kids aren't in this DVD and it's just not as much fun for me (I mean, him).

If you've got a little one who loves animals, the zoo, or Barney, this video is for you. My toddler never cared for Barney, but she loves animals so I thought I'd give this video a shot. She absolutely adores it! The songs are catchy and fun and it's longer than a normal 30 minute video. It features Baby Bop, B.J., and Barney. It's definitely one of the best zoo animal videos out there.

I highly recommend this video for any child who loves animals.

My 2- and 4-year-old girls love this show!! Barney, BJ, Baby Bop, and a stowaway, Scooter, take a trip to the fabulous Fort Worth Zoo. As they sing and dance their way around the zoo, they see many different animals and learn a little bit about each one. Interspersed throughout the video are short animal spotlights by BJ. Also, as the gang visits each exhibit, they ask viewers things like, "Can you hop like a kangaroo?" "Can you roar like a lion?" and it shows children doing the things Barney asks them to do. Songs such as "What'll We See At the Zoo?", "Jungle Adventure," "Elephant," "Everybody Needs A Nap," and a song about snacking on fruits and vegetables are included. This video is interactive and fun, and the short facts given about the animals are very easy to understand (did you know a koala has two thumbs on each hand for climbing?!). It doesn't go into great detail about each animal, but it is a great introduction to help the child want to learn more. I also like seeing all the families spending a fun day at the zoo together. To top it off, the filming and graphics are top-notch! I highly recommend this video for all zoo-lovers and zoo-lovers-to-be!

Movies are made for our enjoyment. How good or bad they are is a matter of opinion. This movie however is really not open to too much debate. In the same vain as Vigilante and the Warriors (both much better films) this is the story of Goose played by Jim Van Bebber as the leader of a viloent street gang named The Ravens. Danny ,Paul Harper, is the leader of a rival Street gang named The Spiders and Hates Goose. Goose's girlfriend an Ouija reading weirdo trys to gets Goose out of the gangs. He finally relents and quits. When he dose the Spiders and Ravens join together. Danny sends two goons to kill Goose however they just beat his girl to death with golf clubs. Goose is crushed and hides out with his bum of a father for a while before finally just hitting skid row. The new leader of the Ravens get's Goose to come back to the gang's for one last job. I will not go into any more detail becouse the movie is not very long after that.
Deadbeat At Dawn is obviously an ambitious film from Van Beeber however it just never, and I mean ever, comes together. Had the movie focused more on Goose getting revenge for his girlfriend death it may have been a better film. The acting is really poor and the pacing is really off kilter. The movie has some very graphic moments and they do nothing but take away from the movie. Seeing a close up of someone getting there throat ripped open is not my idea of great filmmaking. You leave the movie finding it hard to hate but not easy to like. Van Beeber tries and just fails to produce a good solid movie, but at least he tried.

I watched this film with a bunch of stuntmen..everybody was freaking out...We all loved it. Since then I'd sought out and seen all of Jim's other films..loved them too..I really want to check out "Charlie's Family" Mr.VanBebber's latest.. I hope it comes out soon.

FIRST THING I WOULD LIKE PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT "DEADBEAT AT DAWN" IS THAT JIM VAN BEBBER WROTE THE MOVIE WHILE GOING TO COLLEGE AT WRIGHT STATE IN DAYTON, OHIO AND IT IS PRETTY MUCH A TOTAL STUDENT PROJECT....HE COMES FROM THE SMALLTOWN OF GREENVILLE ABOUT 30 MILES FROM DAYTON.....I HAPPEN TO LIVE IN GREENVILLE....TO THE REVIEWERS THAT CALL DEADBEAT TRASH OR SLEAZE, IF YOU KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM YOU WOULD THINK DIFFERENT. FOR ONE THING JIM DID ALMOST EVERYTHING FROM THE WRITING, DIRECTING, TO THE SPECIAL EFFECTS....JIM VAN BEBBER IS A VERY WELL KNOWN UNDERGROUND FILM MAKER STILL TODAY....THE MAN IS A PURE TALENT.....HIS LAST MOVIE IS YET TO BE RELEASED IN ANY FORM OF VIDEO AND IT WAS CALLED "CHARLIES FAMILY" A MOVIE ABOUT THE CHARLES MANSON FAMILY....."MY SWEET SATAN" IS A VERY GOOD PORTRAYAL OF A WHACKED OUT KID WHO GOT INTO SATANISM....JIM DID A GREAT JOB PORTRAYING "RICKY KASSO"...- TRUE STORY BY THE WAY....ANYONE WHO IS CURIOUS ABOUT THIS MOVIE SHOULD BUY IT NOW BEFORE ITS NO LONGER AVAILABLE!!!! YOU WON'T BE DISSAPOINTED....

I was really looking forward to my first glimpse of the gamed Japanese hardcore wrestling, especially since this DVD has Cactus Jack (Mick Foley) and Terry Funk on it. Well, I was bitterly dissappointed. First off, if you are an ECW fan, I don't think this will excite you. Other than seeing fireworks go off a few times during a match, these matches are way less exciting than your average ECW match. If you are a WWF fan, you'll find these matches slow, boring, and extremely lacking in actual wrestling (with a few exceptions).

These matches have zero "match psychology". They basically amount to the guys punching and kicking each other until everyone has had a turn in the bed of barbed wire, or the exploding fence or whatever the gimmick is. There are some non-hardcore matches on here, which are also pretty lame, with the exception of the bonus match, featuring TAKA Mitchunoku (who you might know from Kaentai in the WWF). I guess the rule is that you either have exploding barbed wired or wrestling, but not both.

Additionally, the commentating is HORRENDOUS. These guys are terrible, and maybe that contributes the crappy quality of the match (a wrestling match DOES include commentary, folks), but they don't have much to work with.

What really gets me is that there is a special feature focusing on Hayabusa, and it shows very brief clips of him in some great looking matchups. High flying moves and real wrestling. Unfortunately, the match he's in on this DVD is a stupid exploding ring electrified barbed-wire "deathmatch" and he gets punched and kicked a lot and then thrown into said gimmick items.

I give it a 2 instead of a 1 simply because you don't see exploding ring matches a lot, and it was interesting, but not worth the price of the DVD by a long shot.

Jason The Terrible vs. some FMW Mid-Carder
Mid-Carder got some offense but Jason beat ...him and pinned him after a Snowplow variation. 5.5/10 worst match. each match is bloody and more violent as the tape progressed after this match.

Mad Dog vs. Shark
Bloody women's match with blades and fire. Mad Dog makes Shark submit. 7/10

FMW Six Man tag team Street Fight titles
Mike"Gladiator"Awesome,Horace"CPA"Boulder(Hogan)and Hiskatsu Ooya vs. Leather Face and the Headhunters.
Oh my ..., what a match this is. Awesome showing his toughness by beating ...them with one bad knee. Leather Face pins Horace after a bloody encounter. 8.5/10

Barbwire and Glass Death Match.
W*ng Kanemura vs. Cactus Jack
Awesome. Both these guys unrelenting and I loved each and every minute of it. Cactus Jack pins Kanemura. 8.5/10

Barbwire ropes Death match
Combat Toyota vs. Megumi Kudo
This was without a shadow of a doubt, the most violent womans match I have ever seen. Combat Toyota's final match and they did not dissapiont. Shows how tough both of them are. 9/10

Tag Team Exploding barbwire match
Terry Funk and Mr. POGO vs. Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka
The most brutal match I have ever seen. POGO and Funk win after a Double Piledriver on Hayabusa. After they use POGO's sickle to literary rip Hayabusa's match off. This makes HIAC'98 (KOTR)and ECW look like a walk in the park. 9.5/10

This is not for anybody who thinks ECW is too brutal for tv. This takes extreme to the extreme. I liked it a lot.

Man, the main event is AWESOME and Brutal. This is the real BLOODSHED Hardcore Wrestling should always be like. Wrestlers are risking them selves for HONOR and FAME and Who's the man, that's the question you'll find in this DVD. IT'S GONNA TAKE BLOOD. SWEAT. AND MORE BLOOD TO BE THE KING OF THE DEATH MATCH. Here are the matches and ratings of each match:

Match 1: Nanjyo vs. Jason the Terrible (Poor)
It's the introduction match which mostly be average or below average. (*)

Match 2: Mad Dog Nagayo vs. Shark Tsuchiya (Good)
Well, it's a tough girls match that hell breaks loose. Knives, Kerosine, and chains are all fair game so stand clear...

Match 3: Horrace "CPA" Boulder, Mike "GLADIATOR" Awesome, and Ooya vs Super Leather and the Head Hunter Twins (Good)
NO COMMENTS...

Match 4: Cactus Jack vs. Kanemura (Excellent)
BARBED WIRE, BROKEN GLASS, NO RULES APPLY DEATH MATCH. BANG! BANG! As everyone know Cactus in ECW, He's a 100% HARDCORE SON OF a GUN that loves pain and BLOOD...

Match 5: Combat "Mother in Law" Toyoda vs. Megumi Kudo (Excellent Ending)
It's Combat "Mother in Law" Toyoda's final match in the FMW and she is pitted against onetime partner Megumi Kudo. Watch out! The ring is surrounded with electric barbed wire--so, ground yourself because the sparks are gonna fly. It's very SAD ending, sometimes you have to cry...
Electric barbed wire in the ring and on the floor, knives, Fire, Gasoline,and what ever it should take to win this match...

HIGHLY RECOMENDED for All HARDCORE Fans of FMW and ECW... THIS IS WRESTLING AT ITS HARDEST!
FMW DVD is beyond WWF(Entertainment wrestling) and WCW(Entertainment). This is HARCORE, VIOLENCE, AND CHAOS.

I think it's more harsh than ECW DVD's but at least ECW and FMW are MUCH better than WWF and WCW. It's Worth your $money$, beleive me, especially the Main Event. GO FOR IT.

This is not a funny movie -- unless you enjoy using a person's personal problems as a vehicle for scenes of gratuitous sex and violence, and a lot of barely humorous wisecracks. It's a typical Robin Williams movie; how many times do you need to see him try to cackle and doubletalk his way through some serious situations in his lame attempts at humor? Robin Williams is not a comedian, and certainly is not a serious actor, which leaves no reason to view these pointless films.

My mom bought a copy of this video at a garage sale when I was about thirteen and I've watched it over and over and over for the past ten years. I've never gotten tired of the emotional ups and downs that this story puts you through. The script is wonderful and the acting is exceptional. In fact the movie is really great all around.
I think that one of the things about this movie that appealed to me as a teenager was the idea that life can't be defined as solely comedy or drama. Sometimes the you end up caring about people who are upsetting your existence and sometimes the people who upset your existence are ones that you care about. In the end, though, things are more or less okay. I think this movie does a wonderful job of illustrating that notion, although on a much exagerrated level. (Really,how boring would a realistic movie be???)
Recently I've noticed that I've lost that copy my mom found for twenty-five cents and I'm excited to buy it on dvd.I'd highly recommend this movie and have for ten years.

For us living outside the US Cadillac Man is a masterpiece of a light comedy, a sort of essential oil of Americana.
People and situations are both funny, real and so human, so far from the boring, rigid realities of old Europe.
We love it.

Today, teen comedies involve a lot crude humor and the kids just never learn anything. "Happy Campers" has BOTH, and mixes them well which will satisfy a wide audience. Why I never saw this movie get a national release is beyond me. This movie was ten times better then American Pie's or any of the other lousy and souless teen movies.

What was written in this movie growing up I lived through. One character in the movie goes off on the same feelings I once had.
This story really taps into what kids go through today. This is a must watch folks, sit back and enjoy some laughs as well as somethings to think about from you youth or if you are in this age group of the kids in the film they might cover issues and feelings you are currently going through.

Fantastic movie!

What a movie. It was fun and also a good movie for young kids to learn from as they these kids in the movie display many of the emotions I remember and even to this day still feel. This movie is a lot deeper then you might expect. I was expecting a raunchy teen comedy. Some raunch was spouted in this movie, but this movie had brains and turned this into one of the best sleeper rentals I had all year.

I liked it so much I am going to be buying it.

(when reading the following please take into account that the numoris spelling and grammer mistakes are do to the fact that it was writtan at 4 a.m.)

This movie was amaizing it was truly well made. the cast was amazing (especcialy the hippie... damn she's hot). the script was good the actors really brought alive though. and the director really went above and beyond the call of duty on this one. all in all a great buy/rental.