Saving Silverman (R Rated Version)
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Actor: Jack Black, Jason BiggsBrand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-07-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Saving Silverman (R Rated Version)
Movie Review: professional critics missed the boat
Summary: 5 Stars
There's a reason why this movie continually resurfaces on television through the years. It's a comic masterpiece. The amazing thing is that the professional movie critics, as witnessed on rottentomatoes, rated the movie so poorly when it first came out. Read Roger Eberts review as an example.
A movie gets to create its own universe. In Saving Silverman, that universe contains a tongue-in-cheek possibility of violence which, due to the incompetence of the characters, is never really going to happen. The girl gets kidnapped. She's threatened with being shot. She's not at all scared, and the characters aren't capable of pulling it off. To call the movie mean spirited based on such scenes shows a lack of understanding of movie universes. Okay, a football ref does get impaled. Yet it's one of the funniest scenes of the movie because of the movie universe in which it occurs.
Another great example of violence turned topsy turvy for humorous effect. The Amanda Peet character is dunking Jack Black's character in the toilet when the Steve Zahn character shocks her with a cattle prod or something. We then get a toilet-eye's view of Jack Black's character churning up the toilet like an egg beater from the electrical charge. Now that's funny.
Neal Diamond's role has been criticized, but it's an integral part of the masterpiece. Participation in a Neal Diamond tribute band defines our male characters as losers. Neal is making fun of himself. That's funny! His dialogues are riddled with cliches from his song lyrics: "Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise." "Come on, Neal, turn on your heart light." That's funny!
And like any masterpiece, this one holds up over multiple viewings.
Hopefully those professional critics will some day admit their monumental error.
Summary of Saving Silverman (R Rated Version)
DARREN, WAYNE AND J.D. HAVE BEEN FRIENDS FOREVER, UNTIL JUDITH, A GREAT-LOOKING, COLD-HEARTED BTICH, DIGS HER CLAWS INTODARREN. AFTER J.D. AND WAYNE TRY EVERYTHING TO BREAK-UP DARRENAND JUDITH, THEY DECIDE TO KIDNAP HER AND REUNITE HIM WITH HISLONG LOST LOVE, BEFORE SHE BECOMES A NUN.Darren (Jason Biggs of American Pie) is convinced that he'll never know love, since his one true love moved away during high school. To cheer him up, Darren's best friends Wayne (Steve Zahn, Out of Sight, That Thing You Do) and J.D. (Jack Black, High Fidelity) hook him up with Judith (Amanda Peet, The Whole Nine Yards)--little suspecting that Judith will tear their friendship apart. Judith wastes no time in taking over Darren's life, exiling his friends, and burning his beloved Neil Diamond records. If only Wayne and J.D. can bring Darren back together with his high school sweetheart (Amanda Detmer), who's about to become a nun. Saving Silverman is unquestionably of the There's Something About Mary school of comedy, throwing together absurd characters and over-the-top gags (for example, a scene of Darren getting butt implants, per Judith's orders). It doesn't quite balance everything, but Black and Zahn are engaging comic talents. Also featuring R. Lee Ermey as the boy's deranged high school football coach, whose advice continues to guide their lives, as well as a surprise appearance by Neil Diamond himself. --Bret Fetzer
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