Hudson Movie Reviews

This movie was so bad it hurts...I watched it because like another reviewer, I was waiting for some redeeming quality. Welp, there was none, outside of laughing out loud three times and counting the 'funny' every time I did, a sure sign that the movie wasn't working.

I know good actors sometimes makes bad movies, but I'm suprised the participants allowed the movie to even be released. The unrated version came off as desperate, offensive and not nearly as funny "Porkys". Really, really, bad. Ouch...

Cuba Gooding, Jr. most have had some free time when he did "Boat Trip". It's definitely beneath his acting ability, but I guess he thought it would be fun. If you are one of his fans, take a quick peek. He plays a man named Jerry who is dumped by his girlfriend (Vivica A. Fox) for another man. His best friend Nick (Horatio Sanz) convinces him to go on a cruise to hook up with some women. After a squable with a travel agent, the two friends are set up to take a gay cruise. On a gay cruise he finds the woman of his dreams. The story line is lame I must admit, but there are some laughs. There is absolutely no gay bashing. The R rating is due to the ... nature of conversation and actions. The only nudity is watching some men walk around in those buttless pants. Plus, they have a new one. Instead of the Swedish Bikini Swim Team, they have the Swedish Bikini Tan Team on their way to an Hawaiian Tropic competition.

The comedy in this film wasn't really that great, the funny bits were mostly one liners and the plot wasn't too deep. After buying and watching the DVD I must say it didn't live up to the expectations I had to begin with but it was funny in it's own way.

It's a movie that can make anyone laugh, regardless of what your comedic preferences are, and so I give this 3 stars, its a fun movie and anyone who likes movies will find this worth watching.

This movie was so bad it hurts...I watched it because like another reviewer, I was waiting for some redeeming quality. Welp, there was none, outside of laughing out loud three times and counting the 'funny' every time I did, a sure sign that the movie wasn't working.

I know good actors sometimes makes bad movies, but I'm suprised the participants allowed the movie to even be released. The unrated version came off as desperate, offensive and not nearly as funny "Porkys". Really, really, bad. Ouch...

Cuba Gooding, Jr. most have had some free time when he did "Boat Trip". It's definitely beneath his acting ability, but I guess he thought it would be fun. If you are one of his fans, take a quick peek. He plays a man named Jerry who is dumped by his girlfriend (Vivica A. Fox) for another man. His best friend Nick (Horatio Sanz) convinces him to go on a cruise to hook up with some women. After a squable with a travel agent, the two friends are set up to take a gay cruise. On a gay cruise he finds the woman of his dreams. The story line is lame I must admit, but there are some laughs. There is absolutely no gay bashing. The R rating is due to the ... nature of conversation and actions. The only nudity is watching some men walk around in those buttless pants. Plus, they have a new one. Instead of the Swedish Bikini Swim Team, they have the Swedish Bikini Tan Team on their way to an Hawaiian Tropic competition.

The comedy in this film wasn't really that great, the funny bits were mostly one liners and the plot wasn't too deep. After buying and watching the DVD I must say it didn't live up to the expectations I had to begin with but it was funny in it's own way.

It's a movie that can make anyone laugh, regardless of what your comedic preferences are, and so I give this 3 stars, its a fun movie and anyone who likes movies will find this worth watching.

This review is from a guy who has seen every last episode of Angel Links. I'm just reviewing the 1st DVD to give people a head's up about this series.

This is a good show, but it's clear that they did not put as much creative work into this as they did Outlaw Star. I guess we're supposed to be so distracted by Meifon Lee's rack that it shouldn't matter, but there is a severe lack of creativity in this anime. I can appreciate that two of the supporting characters appeared in Outlaw Star, but a talking Dinosaur? I mean c'mon people can't we make Aliens anymore or are we going to settle with walking talking animals that can be found right here on Earth, or at least in the fossil record?

And what's with this cute little pet called "Taffei" that transforms into her sword? Can anyone say Ryo-Ohki?

You could tell that they just threw this together and placed it in the Outlaw Star universe. I'm not upset that this show was not like Outlaw Star but Angel Links really had the potential to be different if they stuck to the more unique elements, which they failed to do. Angel Links bounces back and forth from one point to another. Sometimes they'll be focusing on the mystery of Meifon's past, yet in others the main thrust would be on their job of protecting people. This approach makes Angel Links seem like just another typical space show and therefore nothing special.

While Angel Links doesn't break any new ground in the plot department, the visuals definitely rock the house. The art of Angel Links is incredible! Every aspect is beautifully and uniquely done -- from the characters to the ships! There's nothing generic in Angel Links, unlike in some anime where characters and things look more or less the same.

Overall, I'd recommend this to basically anyone who enjoys space-type anime, but don't expect another Outlaw Star, for it doesn't come close.

Call me crazy but I liked Outlaw Star and got sucked into this serries from the same universe. Something about repetative images and way too much of a made for the fan boy nature. Seeing the ship lanch once, okay. In the second episode can we get past the big boat? By the sixth episode I had seen enough of the ship taking off. The story is okay but nothing so exciting that I'd say would make up for the repetive nature.

Well even though I'm probably going to get it for writing that, I think this is a pretty good anime and a good spin-off to Outlaw Star. Even though when I first started watching it I kind of thought, man she has some really big [chest] but if anyone noticed, and I could be the moron here, but the other episodes Meifon isn't as busty as she was in the first episode. Now I have only seen Angel Links through volume 2 so I could be wrong but I kind of got past her cleavage after one episode. So in all I gave the series so far a 5 star rating because it is a decent series and the action scenes I think have been pretty cool especially in episode five when that guy gets shot in the head and blows up in his car or in episode 7 when Meifon loses it, excellent. But I think the constant repeats of the ship taking off are getting old, other then that Meifon is a babe (volume 2's two shower scenes were a surprise), the action and story are great. And to all of you out there expecting another Outlaw Star then forget it, remember from the Outlaw Star Universe not the sequel, it just use's some of the same random and very minor parts that Outlaw Star also had in it, mainly the Angel Links it self. So give it a chance as it's own title not the sequel or spin-off to Outlaw Star.

Having a monster movie filmed in a huge underwater mining lab is kinda silly at first, but gets pretty cool after a while. I've seen several Peter Weller movies, and this is his second best sci-fi movie he's done (right next to "RoboCop"). For people who haven't seen this movie yet, it's about a group of
wise-cracking underwater miners (led by Weller) who's being terrorized by a giant human-fishlike creature that was spawned from a genetic experiment gone haywire. The special effects was pretty cool, although they could have done a little more, but it's still an enjoyable movie to watch. Oscar winning composer Jerry Goldsmith (winner of the Best musical Score Oscar for 1976's "The Omen") does an excellect job conducting action & scary music sequences throughout the entire picture.

Leviathan unlike the Abyss was one of numerous underwater thrillers that had good special effects but needed more work on the script. Peter Weller played a good part but should've stuck to playing Robocop and Richard Crenna who played Doc has never been the same since First Blood in 1982. But all in all A great film.

As a rip-off of Alien and The Thing set underwater, Leviathan is actually quite a fun sci-fi/horror flick. It has no pretensions to be anything else but gory shocker. Heck, it actually starts out it a rather interesting fashion. Once the icky things start happening, it becomes a non-stop ride of thrills and shocks. It's certainly better than DeepStar Six and Endless Descent, two other underwater thrillers made in the same time period.

It's simply unbelievable that a group of such excellent actors can put together such a bad movie. Not funny. Boring. And acting stinks in every single scene.

Guys, know when to quit. It makes money, but it's shameful. It's also not that funny! This is the kind of numbingly stupid movie that deniro seems to like to make these days. Unfortunate, because i know he can do better. God-awful.

You have to admit that the idea of teaming up Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy is certainly interesting, but who would have thought they both would be upstaged by William Shatner playing William Shatner? "Showtime" is a film that has its cake and eats it too by making fun of the cop buddy comedy movie at the same time it embraces the genre. That might explain why you have the feeling at the end of this 2002 film that you are watching a different movie than the one you started out watching.

De Niro is Mitch, a streetwise cop who lives in the real world and takes pride in doing his job and the fact that he has never had to choose between cutting the red wire or the green wire. Murphy is Trey, a patrolman who likes being a cop but would also like to play a cop on TV. Rene Russo is the television executive, sort of a second grade Faye Dunaway "Network" type, who takes the opportunity to bring these two together when Mitch makes the mistake of blowing away a television camera during a shootout (his partner has been shot, there is a guy out there with the biggest gun you have ever seen, and for some reason Mitch does not like a bright light being shined on them in the dark of night). To avoid a multi-million dollar law suit Mitch is ordered to play ball with the television people, even if that means constantly being followed by cameras as he tries to do his job and putting Trey in the seat next to him. While Chase waits for Mitch to explode on camera, we wait for him to bond with Trey.

That is the premise of "Showtime," and the biggest irony is that the best scenes involve setting up the premise rather than the plot that keeps intruding on the fun. The only thing better than Eddie Murphy teaching Robert De Niro how to act is when William Shatner shows up and the pair have T.J. Hooker show them how it is done. Perhaps not since the Marx Brothers ran rampant has the screen had three such divergent approaches to acting in a single scene, which Shatner steals from the other two. The best line in the film is when Shatner informs Chase that Mitch is the worst actor he has ever seen. Unfortunately the rest of the film does not match the levels of humor at work during this training sequence and you have to give credit to the actors who can make a simple scene such as Mitch watching Trey watching Shatner hysterical.

The film is directed by Tom Dey, who did "Shanghai Noon" and apparently is content to find a niche as a buddy film director. Then again, if you get De Niro and Murphy should you be complaining about being typed as a director? This is an action comedy where the action gets in the way of the comedy and once Shatner disappears the movie shifts into a different gear. Yes, there is a point where comedies like this have serious moments and we realize that underneath the banter and animosity there are feelings of affection and mutual respect, but with "Showtime" you just get the feeling they are pouring on the cliches they spent so much time ridiculing in the first half of the film.

Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn have reputations that precede them, and when they're in a movie together, you know it's going to be a mildly funny screwball comedy. That's exactly what this movie turns out to be.

This is the story of Henry and Nancy Clark (Martin and Hawn, respectively), an Ohio couple who have a son that they've just sent off to study abroad for a year, and a daughter who quit medical school to become an actress in New York. Henry has just gotten fired from his job at an advertising firm and now he must go to New York City to interview for a job at the only company that's interested in hiring him. Nancy tags along on the trip, and before you know it, the adventure begins. They begin by having their plane re-routed to Boston and the airline losing their luggage. They can't get a bus to New York City, they miss the Amtrak by just a few seconds, and then they get stuck with a rental car with a heater that won't shut off. They damage their rental car, get mugged by an Andrew Lloyd Webber impersonator, and get kicked out of their hotel.

All of that happens in just the first 20 minutes of the movie. These problems and inconveniences keep mounting, and during the whole time they're looking for food to quell their hunger, a place to rest, and a way to kick-start their stagnant marriage. Like I already mentioned, this movie is mildly funny, but still not on par with other movies these two actors have made. Steve Martin is a veteran of these types of comedies, but he's not as good here as he was in movies like "Father of the Bride". He's always been great at playing the well-intentioned goof, but he just doesn't sell it as well here. Goldie Hawn is an Academy Award winner, but it's clear that her best work is behind her. She's also been in better movies of this genre.

In the grand scheme of things, this movie will probably rank as one of the lesser works on these two actors' resumes. However, if you're looking to entertain yourself for 90 minutes, this movie will do the job.

I thought that this movie was for people who are like 106 years-old, but its really very modern and funny!!!

I never saw the 1970 version but I can honeslty say that this is a Steve Martin classic. This is much, much, much better than the last movie he made in 2003.

I also like Goldie Hawn in the first wives club, but this is just about her best performance. Is it just me or when you watch this movie do you not SEE THAT Goldie Hawn has yet hit 35? And she's like 52 in this movie, she looks so good. Steve Martin...well, he's always looked around 54 or 55, even when he was in his mid 40's, he always looks older. They are so funny together, I am serious, they were so funny, this movie always cracks me up from beginning to end!

Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn have reputations that precede them, and when they're in a movie together, you know it's going to be a mildly funny screwball comedy. That's exactly what this movie turns out to be.

This is the story of Henry and Nancy Clark (Martin and Hawn, respectively), an Ohio couple who have a son that they've just sent off to study abroad for a year, and a daughter who quit medical school to become an actress in New York. Henry has just gotten fired from his job at an advertising firm and now he must go to New York City to interview for a job at the only company that's interested in hiring him. Nancy tags along on the trip, and before you know it, the adventure begins. They begin by having their plane re-routed to Boston and the airline losing their luggage. They can't get a bus to New York City, they miss the Amtrak by just a few seconds, and then they get stuck with a rental car with a heater that won't shut off. They damage their rental car, get mugged by an Andrew Lloyd Webber impersonator, and get kicked out of their hotel.

All of that happens in just the first 20 minutes of the movie. These problems and inconveniences keep mounting, and during the whole time they're looking for food to quell their hunger, a place to rest, and a way to kick-start their stagnant marriage. Like I already mentioned, this movie is mildly funny, but still not on par with other movies these two actors have made. Steve Martin is a veteran of these types of comedies, but he's not as good here as he was in movies like "Father of the Bride". He's always been great at playing the well-intentioned goof, but he just doesn't sell it as well here. Goldie Hawn is an Academy Award winner, but it's clear that her best work is behind her. She's also been in better movies of this genre.

In the grand scheme of things, this movie will probably rank as one of the lesser works on these two actors' resumes. However, if you're looking to entertain yourself for 90 minutes, this movie will do the job.

I thought that this movie was for people who are like 106 years-old, but its really very modern and funny!!!

I never saw the 1970 version but I can honeslty say that this is a Steve Martin classic. This is much, much, much better than the last movie he made in 2003.

I also like Goldie Hawn in the first wives club, but this is just about her best performance. Is it just me or when you watch this movie do you not SEE THAT Goldie Hawn has yet hit 35? And she's like 52 in this movie, she looks so good. Steve Martin...well, he's always looked around 54 or 55, even when he was in his mid 40's, he always looks older. They are so funny together, I am serious, they were so funny, this movie always cracks me up from beginning to end!

I would like to echo the other reviews here ... Universal has done an incredibly shoddy job on this DVD. The film is a good one ... not as good as The Far Country, but a respectable and enjoyable Western by the reliable Anthony Mann. The picture quality is often poor, and why the movie had to be panned and scanned when it was not widescreen to begin with is beyond me. Cost can't be an excuse ... the Hammer DVD's of The Curse of Frankenstein and The Horror of Dracula by other studios were similarly priced yet far better in quality. Universal should be ashamed of issuing a classic Western in this condition. I want my money back!

This is a great film but not a great dvd. I had a password issue at the start (which was fixed by just pressing stop on the player) and then the image quality ranged from really good to really poor throughout the film. For the price I paid I can't really complain but I will. As far as the image ratio goes, according to IMDB it was orginally shot in a 1.37:1 so at this format of 1.33:1 not alot is lost. Stewart didn't film a "widescreen" western until "The Man From Laramie" in 1957 if I am correct.

Good story, cast and scenery. Young Rock Hudson in supporting role was a hoot. Great color, no widescreen and have read varying reports as to whether it was shot in widescreen or not. If it is pan and scan, they did a good job of it. But enjoy it for it's own sake. No extras on DVD, but what you get is an entertaining story and for the price, it seems a reasonable deal to me.

Yet another SNL-based film stars Tim Meadows as radio show host Phelps aka The Ladies Man who gets lucky whenever he wants. I don't know how, but many women find him attractive, so as a consequencee many guys (mostly hapless husbands) hate him, and are trying to kill him, and one of them is Lee Evans ("Mouse Hunt""There's Something about Mary"). But one day he is fired by his boss at the radio station (Eugene Levy, "American Pie), and has to find another job while trying to find the real love, and so on and on.

Like many other SNL films, the film is nothing but a jumbled collections of episodes, many of which are not interesting. Maybe the main character works in short sketch, but not on film, which requires at least 90 munites. But you know these things from the beginning. The most unaccountable thing is that many women find him sexy while Tim Meadows has no charisma of Shaft. Comedy? I know, but 90 minutes are to long to see him repeating the same lisping speech. Men like Will Smith can do better than that.

The best part always comes supporting roles. Billy Dee Williams is good, so is Evans and Levy, but they are given too short time. And the greatest mystery of the film is one cameo appearance of Julianne Moore as a clown, who definitely should have known better.

...major waste of film. "The Ladies Man" is one of the most generic comedies ever. A GREAT BIG NOTHING!! 1 STAR never said so much.

I came to appreciate this movie a little more after a second viewing. Sure, it's a really, really dumb movie, and Tim Meadows' Saturday Night Live character Leon Phelps, aka The Ladies' Man, is stretched just about as far as he can be without snapping, but there are laughs to be found here, and the film really isn't as raunchy as you might think. Leon Phelps is the perpetual 70s swinger who dispenses all of his wisdom in the ways of love on his own late night radio program. A lot of that wisdom involves some rather unsavory advice, most of it involving "da butt" in some fashion, and Leon soon finds himself out of work alongside his attractive producer Julie (Karyn Parsons, who turns in a pretty impressive performance). Unable to find a new radio job, Leon's troubles only increase when his womanizing ways make him the target of a group of men looking for the guy who seduced all their wives. SNL's Will Farrel turns in a particularly memorable performance as the ring leader of the group and a really, really devoted Greco-Roman wrestler whose wife somehow doesn't understand his need to get oiled up and practice wrestling day and night with his friend Bryan. With so much going on in his life, will Leon find the answer to all his money woes with a "Sweet Thing" from his past (if he can only remember which one of his former ladies she is), or will true love sneak up on him and make him a changed man?

The Ladies' Man features some notable names in its cast list: e.g., Tiffani Amber-Thiessen, Julianne Moore (in an inexplicable little cameo), and the ultimate ladies' man himself, Billie Dee Williams. Billie Dee's presence lends a sense of class that is altogether missing without him, although he does play a prominent role in an unforgettable and hilarious practical joke of pretty crude proportions. When it comes right down to it, The Ladies' Man must be judged in terms of its comedic aspects, and I have to say I found the movie quite funny. If you found Tim Meadows' Ladies Man character on Saturday Night Live funny, odds are you will enjoy this movie.

If you have a choice between doing some tedious household chores, having minor surgery, and watching this film, I would go for the chores, or even the surgery - this film is much the most painful option.
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Emotionally it is downright repulsive. No character is likeable, and the majority are completely repugnant. If, as is touted, this is meant to be a 'study' of the differences in attitude between the French and Americans in matters of the heart, then it a cynical, superficial, and wholly uninteresting 'study' - there are no worthwhile insights into human relationships, only tired, simplistic, and ultimately false cliches and stereotypes. It seems that the writer thinks that he has deeply analysed the French, that is all the French people and their entire culture, in terms of their purported readiness to say, 'But, of course', to any event, however disturbing. It is hard to think of a less intelligent analysis.
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As a narrative, or as straight entertainment, it also fails dismally. The focus on money, as embodied by a painting by an old master, is incredibly dull. The characters are cardboard, with not even a hint of what lies behind their surface personas, and the latter are hardly engaging in themselves. Naomi Watts struggles to give some spine to her role, but the script defeats her at every turn. Kate Hudson doesn't even bother to struggle, figuring that simpering smiles and bafflement will suffice for her to pick up her pay check. The French actors sleepwalk their way through the nightmare.
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This film is also far too long. So if you're looking for two hours of witless misanthropy, see 'Le Divorce'. I still can't quite believe that Merchant Ivory had anything to do with a film this bad.

Saw the previews a few times,and thought, "Oh, that looks like a harmless piece of fluff!"

Actually, it strikes me as a movie very insulting to the French. They are depicted as adulterous, two-faced, and out to steal your inheritance if possible. How different things would be if only they would have supported the invasion of Iraq!

There are a lot of good performances, that's true, and that's what does make the picture work as far as it does. The woman playing Kate Hudson's sister is absolutely beautiful, too.

One scene that did make me burst out laughing (but not the moviemakers' design) was when Kate visited a lingerie shop to outfit herself for an assignation. This totally flat-chested actress told the shopkeeper she needed a 34B! Oh, sacre bleu! There's just no way she could have that cup size!

It got a little too serious and then dipped into melodrama at the end; rather like an eclair that turns out to have a heavy crust.

See it if you must, but I was vaguely disappointed.

...then you are definately, 'le American'. Okay so that's being a bit general. This movie was more an entertaining look at two different cultures--including food, wine, shopping, sex, and how they clash, then a meat-and-potatoes romance or drama. It didn't have a huge sopping love sory/action/and for that I was grateful. I have to say, most of the classic, well-loved novels and movies surround this similar premise: a young naive girl in a strange country, grows to love it, and finds herself. This movie is what it is, and it is utterly delightful, and alhtough cliched, most truthful, in fact, I should know, I'm an American who lived in Paris for years. As far as movies of 2003 goes, this is the creme de' le creme! Excellent!