Hi, Mom!
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Movie Reviews of Hi, Mom!
Movie Review: Funny and Weird
Summary: 3 Stars
The second bizarre hippy satire from a young Brian DePalma (the first being Greetings), and featuring a remarkably spontaneous Robert DeNiro as a young Viet Nam vet new in the city and looking for work. The film (while noticeably dated), is practically an act of radicalism in itself as DeNiro boyishly tries to seduce his neighbors while simultaneously filming the act from his apartment to turn it into a work of explosive pornography. DePalma is clever here; he manages to transform the neighboring windows into fixed frames reminiscent of Hitchcock's Rear Window. Once a failure, DeNiro performs as a reactionary police officer in an all African American theater troupe's educational TV program, in which blacks offer liberal whites the opportunity to experience African Americanism as they beat and rape them in white-face; this sequence is particularly strange and not all together funny until DeNiro arrives as the cop. And finally, he transforms himself once again into a guerilla revolutionary, bombing Laundromats and disguising himself as a bourgeois salesman. This final section is probably the most enjoyable and improvised, though it contains none of the creativity of the first section. The film is interesting if for nothing else, because one gets to witness DePalma and DeNiro stylistically severed from their current work. However, the film seems to try to satirize everything in our society, when in fact it comes across as though it has satirized nothing.Movie Review: Hi Mom! - A talk with Brian De Palma and Martin Scorsese
Summary: 3 Stars
Director Brian De Palma and contemporary Martin Scorsese appeared together on a 1978 TV interview (just around the time THE LAST WALTZ was in theatres) and they started talking about Robert De Niro. De Palma went on to say he was using De Niro before Scorsese succussfully tapped into the upcoming actor's talents with MEAN STREETS and TAXI DRIVER. In the late 1960's Brian De Palma made two small independent movies, GREETINGS and HI MOM! using the then unknown Robert D.
De Niro's audition for De Palma was discussed amusingly. De Niro entered being very shy and introverted, but when he went into his role he came out loud, strong and robust. De Palma in his own words said he was like
Lee J. Cobb.
PBS should uncover this 30 year plus old interview and make it available on DVD as a special feature, interview compilation, or anything to celebrate the MEN WHO MAKE MOVIES - Scorsese, De Palma and De Niro who have done so
much reshaping the movies of the 1970's through today (give or take a couple of years.) But it all started with
a movie minus a budget titled HI MOM!
Movie Review: Avant-Garbage
Summary: 2 Stars
I saw "Hi, Mom!" listed in a book entitled "The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies ever Made". I have made it a point to watch those films whenever possible which is why I rented "Hi, Mom!" last night. What a waste of time that was. Robert de Niro is the "star" of this film and his preformance is a mixed bag. I would rate it on par with his acting in "Rocky and Bulwinkle".
The movie starts out awkwardly as it seems to be an R-rated movie about the porn industry. It veers away from that into something entirely different as it seems to want to shock the audience into empathy. It stumbles to the end attempting to expand its' simplistic portrayal of American stereotypes. Maybe this movie is supposed to be "black humor"; that genre that shames you into thinking a lousy movie is actually a work of art (when the truth is that your first impression was the correct assessment). In my opinion, the only impressive bit of acting in this movie was that of the porn distributor.
This film DID remind me of a 70's film called "Kentucky Fried Movie". That movie veered off in different directions as well but it had the advantage of actually being funny. I'm actually rather embarassed to admit that I watched "Hi, Mom!". Lets just put this review in the category of a public service. Don't say I didn't warn you!
Movie Review: [No 0 star rating] An Unbelievably Stupid Film
Summary: 1 Stars
Reading the posted reviews here, is like revisting the ballessssss white liberals who are portrayed in this preschool-level, skewered portrayal of the 60's. White = BAD (you can finish the equation.)
For those considering Hi, Mom whether for purchase or rental, be sure to watch it with your (white) wife and then project her into DePalma's puerile depiction of a liberal couple, attending an all black drama (except for DeNiro who conveniently is portraying the viscious hunky cop). Then witness her being raped and mauled while you are beaten. Why? Because you are white!
Stupidity not worthy of further commentary.
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