Escanaba in Da Moonlight
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Movie Reviews of Escanaba in Da Moonlight
Movie Review: Regional Cult Favorite!
Summary: 5 Stars
Actually I'm a troll from under da bridge, but I do enjoy watching yoopers in a movie the same as everyone else!Seriously, this movie is a spellbinding journey through the mystical and mysterious Day Before Opening Day. Jeff Daniels has created a classic and entracing tale of Rueben Soady and some close relatives (and one freaked-out DNR officer). Sure some of the humor is a litte immature (fart humor is raised to a new level), but the movie often switches to a surreal focus on Daniel's character and his plight of being the oldest Soady to never have bagged a buck.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and would recommend it to anyone who is from the upper midwest region and also to anyone who might enjoy a strange, funny, and touching story of an upper michigan hunter.
It would be hard to pigeonhole this thing into any one category, and for that I give Daniel's my bigest thanks, for shunning the Hollywood methodology and creating something very special.
Movie Review: HYSTERICAL!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm 14 years old and I think This movie is HYSTERICALy funny. Me and my family sat down and watched this a week before hunting season and we were crying because it was so funny. So me and my dad brought this movie up to deer camp with us and we sat down with a load of other people and watched it, we had to stop the movie so many times. One time it got so bad someone Peed their pants. I have literally watched this DVD probably 25 times because i love, o my bad 26 i watched it today to. This jimmer guy is hilarious his chevy broke down he gets out it cathces on fire turns on and starts chasing him. Iam a hunter and if your not a hunter it doesnt matter this movie is a must see for everyone not just us "Michiganders". But if you are from Michigan you might find it more appealing especially me since I HUNT a few miles north of Escanaba. People at our deer camp like this movie so much one guy bought 6 copies and gave them away as christmas gifts.Movie Review: Rituals run deep...
Summary: 5 Stars
If your not from Michigan and not a deer hunter, then understanding or even less, enjoying the movie, might prove difficult. My wife and I were out one Saturday and I suggested we see it but we went to a see it at a theatre that was in a prudish upscale community. Tears were flowing from my eyes and my stomach ached for hours from laughing so hard. The stuck-ups wondered what was so funny but it would be hard to explain that virtually everything in the movie happens in deer camp. From euchre to drinkin', farting to the two holer. And even the feared-by-God conservation officer is a way of life in the woods. Anyone reading this review needs to understand that opening day of gun season is like a national holiday. Communities in the da U.P. close school if it falls during the week. Yes, it's that important. I would suggest that you find someone to go hunting with for a few years then watch it again- It will all make sense then.Movie Review: Field of Dreams meets Da Yoopers!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you have seen the movie and don't understand it then don't bother.
If you have seen the movie and have friends or relatives up in da UP eh! You understand!
I haven't laughed as much in many years. This movie is a gem that some people will never understand.
Jeff Daniels, Thanks for sharing some of the ways of da UP. The people up there are great and they have a wonderful sense of Humor. This film fits right in. If you thought this was an insult to the people of Escanaba you're out in left field!
If only more people could sit back and relax and take this film for what it is.
I for one will be standing at the door to get my copy when its released!
Added: Now that I own the Movie, I changed the Rating to 5 Stars!!!! I love This Movie and I love Da UP Eh!
Movie Review: See it
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok, so it's a little goofy, and you should probably call someone in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (the part that sticks out into northern Lake Michigan)to see what a "Yooper" is. Hint: a person from the UP or upper peninsula....and you might want to check out an underground recording by "Da Yoopers" called "Second Week in Deer Camp"But you don't really need to. It's funny. Alien abductions, wimps from the DNR, daddy-didn't-love-me subplots and a regular parade of strange personages keep the movie zipping right along. You will laugh until your gut hurts unless you are a bloody veggie anti hunting libby, in which case you should shoulder your predjudices and just watch it as a pretty fine piece of self flagellation by the hunting community.