Mr. Show: The Complete Collection
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Actor: Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Jay Johnston, Jill Talley, John EnnisBrand: HBO Home Video
Writer: Bob Odenkirk
Writer: David Cross
Cinematographer: Victor Nelli Jr.
Producer: John Saade
Producer: Peter Giambalvo
Writer: Brent Forrester
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 900 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product features:
- DVD
- 4 X 3 FULL FRAME
- Slipcase
- 3-Pack
- Multi Disc
- Stereo 2.0 - English
Movie Reviews of Mr. Show: The Complete Collection
Movie Review: Second Funniest
Summary: 5 Stars
Mr. Show show is second only to Dave Chapelle, which means SOME parts are not as funny as Dave, who isn't always funny, either. Nobody is always funny. If you can tolerate recent SNL, you probably aren't a Mr. Show fan. If you consider SCTV, Steve Martin, and Steven Colbert funny, you will like Mr. Show. If you watch the herd of Americans gobbling up the ideas fed to them by the media along with their Super Double Bacon Burger and get angry or worried, then you will want to watch Mr. Show.
Mr. Show is meta-media. It starts with all forms of American media -- from TV ads to 1920's songs -- and then duplicates them in funny ways. Political ads. COPS. Local news. You name it. Like a political cartoon that copies and exaggerates the features of its target, Mr. Show emulates the show, to show you what you have been watching and possibly believing. One sketch has TV covering TV covering TV, like nested Russian dolls or the Morton Salt girl.
If you can remember the old SNL ad for Triple Track razors, "because you'll believe anything," that's the tone. Like SCTV's Guy Caballero, the seedy, corrupt, phony, yet utterly beguiling underbelly of the media and our hypnotized gullibility are the targets. The sketches about music awards are especially hilarious. If you think the French guy's painting, "This is not a pipe," is even kind of funny, you will laugh at Mr. Show. The angry bitterness of David Cross is mellowed by the cynical, hate-filled Bob Odenkirk. Ultimately, we are the target of their humor because we have allowed, even encouraged, the inanity and duplicity of the shows we watch. Mr. Show, like Yogi Berra's estimate of opera, is better than it sounds. Look for Sara Silverman in the blowing up the moon segment, in which a monkey unpatriotically questions the point of the mission, triggering a media backlash.
Summary of Mr. Show: The Complete Collection
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