Cujo
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Movie Reviews of Cujo
Movie Review: CUJO, a great Movie but what happend to the DVD?
Summary: 3 Stars
CUJO, a truely gripping and terrorfying movie experience. When i first saw it i was so scared i nearly cried with fear. Now however that it has seen the light of DVD, i wonder to myself what went wrong? The Sound and Picture are very good even though its presented in Mono, its not in Widescreen which is dissapointing and as for the Extras, what Extras. Theres just nothing on this Disc. All we have here is the scene index. It still is an essential if your a Dee Wallace fan like me but nether the less a Disc with no Exrtas can be a dissapointment.Movie Review: Bad dog!
Summary: 3 Stars
Cujo is one scary film! It doesn't help that I have a fear of crazy dogs, this movie leaves nothing to the imagination. Cujo is a St. Bernard who has been bitten by a bat and now has rabies, that explains his grotesque behavior. A mother and son are trapped in their tiny car and that insane Cujo wants to rip them to shreds. This film is based on Stephan King's novel, good film but kinda silly. It's a mixed bag for me.Movie Review: A solution to the problem....
Summary: 3 Stars
The problem: You're in the middle of nowhere, trapped inside a broken-down Ford Pinto. On the outside, a huge, rabid dog who wants to kill you. On the inside, the most annoying child ever born.
Solution: Toss the kid out the window and run like hell.
End of movie. Thank you
Movie Review: A Dull Dog Day Afternoon.
Summary: 2 Stars
After four notable and largely successful adaptations; "Carrie", "Salem's Lot", "The Shining" and "Creepshow" the bubble inevitably had to burst on Stephen King's translation to the screen. What is distinguishable about those previous four films is the impressive reputations of the four directors attached to them; Brian De Palma, Tobe Hooper, Stanley Kubrick and George A. Romero respectively. Sadly with "Cujo" Lewis Teague fails to make the high grade these directors had established with their films. Teague was no doubt utilised due to his 1980 revolt of nature B movie "Alligator". With "Cujo" he would be treading similar but less fantastical territory. It is unfair to entirely blame Teague for the shortcomings of the film. The novel itself places great weight on a child and a dog, and one gets the impression Teague was on a hiding to nothing (creatively rather than commercially.). Even so the film is quite charming in the sequences prior to the titular St. Bernard's encounter with an angry rabies infested bat. But Teague fails to make convincing the tale of adultery and familial breakdown that is really at the heart of the story. The novel seeks to punish adultery, and the film still contains these echoes, but Teague is very much aware that this is a film about a killer dog. The result is a poorly scripted and poorly acted (Dee Wallace aside) film that seems slow and laboured. Nevertheless by the standards of the decade, "Cujo" has to be considered a reasonable effort, but Teague ultimately is unable to overcome the complexities and texture of the novel, which would have been more suited to the TV movie format.
Movie Review: YAWN!
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm not a fan of Stephen King film adaptations. The only one I like is Carrie bec it was directed by Brian DePalma and featured terrific performances by Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. Cujo is boring and not all that suspenseful. I couldn't wait for it to end. Not worth purchasing. Okay as a rental.