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Movie Reviews of Teeth
Movie Review: Leave it to beaver!.
Summary: 4 Stars
At first I didn't know what to expect from Teeth, the film was about a teenager with teeth in her vagina which I thought was a stupid and pathetic premise off course I was completely wrong when I watched this film I also read a couple of reviews and they started praising it and saying that it was an innovative and highly amusing comedy horror film so that really got my interest and the way the film turns out was more serious instead of becoming a trashy and bad exploitation flick. Teeth was a very good and silly teen comedy/horror film which has some engaging and interesting characters, the film was pretty bizarre and the gore scenes were hilarious and over the top and not to mention it made me grab my own crotch in fear just thinking about it lol (what else would you expect from a movie about a killer vagina), Jess Weixler was great as Dawn the virginal highschool student her performance wasn't bad at all but I wouldn't say that it was perfect but then again she did win an award at the sundance film festival, the other teenagers were O.K. theres also the typical bad boy sleazebag that gets what he deserves later on.
The story's about Dawn (Jess Weixler) a highschool student who is also the leader of the student abstinence group, she has made a promise to herself to stay a virgin until the day she gets married and has also worked hard to lead a good example for her fellow students but that all ends when something is awoken inside of her after a male classmate who she had a crush on tries to force himself on Dawn. Dawn was quite happy with her boyfriend and they could have fallen in love with each other but it soon turns into a nightmare when she almost gets raped, her boyfriend gets castrated as she has no clue what just happened. She then finds out that she has a weird mutation known as Vagina Dentata or Toothed Vagina which is sort of a myth described in ancient times, it turns out that they only expose themselves when Dawn becomes angered or frightened but she soon learns to use what she's been cursed with as a lethal weapon against those who've wronged her which also includes her stepbrother Brad who's been harassing her for a while.
This is the type of film that you either love or hate cause the premise which is quite silly which deals with sex so it will only appeal to those who have an open mind or those who like black comedy/horror films with a serious message. Dawn keeps getting herself into trouble as she's confused and alone with herself when it comes to her body and has to deal with her sexuality off course the message was clear its about feminism and female empowerment, the film has an equal balance of comedy and horror and was very original even though some parts were abit uneven and the film started to lose a bit of focus towards the end especially when it deals with typical teenage drama stuff but still I really enjoyed this film and thought it was hilarious and bizarre at the same time. Make sure that you check out the funny and memorable scene at the gynecologist's office where Dawn gets a check up I cringed and laughed at the same time, I definitely recommend this film and two severed thumbs up ;-).
Movie Review: WAIT: To the Gynecologist...AND the dentist? No way!
Summary: 4 Stars
I have to say, this is the most bizarre and original concept i never expected to see on film. Without making a point about the glorification or reivindication of the female control in sexual intercourse, or even the command that we girls exert in couple relationships, my guess is that men will enjoy this film way more than us girls. The popular myth of the "Vagina Dentata" wich exists from centuries in many archaic old cultures, is frankly quite intimidating: The very thought of the concept ashames, terrifies and humiliates women, imagining such a terrible deformity and cruel fate erases any idea of normality in a social behaviour. There could be no peace of mind, at all: The relationships with the opposite sex will be marked by fear of embarrassement, by being pointed or cataloged as a freak.
But for you guys, that's a completely different story, far more gruesome and petrifying. The excruciating pain of castration haunts the minds of men like a relentless collective nightmare, like a part of an ancient fear incrustated in male culture since the beginning of the genre. The menace of genital damage even in the smallest degree, turns a man into a frightful helpless child. The paralysing physical pain implied in the pressence of inminent castration is the nucleum, the essence of terror in this particular portrayal of psychological torture and almost surreal imaginable agony. Therefore, the suspense of the definitive scenes must be a torment for men, while they grab their parts and nod their heads in despair.
With no deflection in the theme of teenage sexual awakening, this movie shows the struggle of a young beautiful girl to supress her emerging sexuality after making a starling discovery about her womanhood. As a funny paradox, Dawn (Jess Weixler) is a proud virgin with strong religious principles, the most active member of her local chastity group, and her noble efforts to remain chaste are challenged by her disturbed stepbrother Brad, as well as other advances in school. With that increasing difficulty in her shoulders, Dawn discovers after a sexual assault that her vagina actually has teeth. The comprehension of the benefits and drawbacks of her anatomical anomaly drives her into a series of encounters that will stop the heart of most men in the audience. Her strange new revelation leads us into the dark and irreverent side of sexuality, combined with a satirical, disturbing and "biting" vision of lost innocence.
Lurid and visceral as it is, this movie didn't completely acomplished to explore the true potential of the great original theme, delivering a work that goes from teenage drama, to horror, to comedy and back again. The substance of the film is uneven in matters of style, unbalanced in rhythm and action, but former actor Mitchell Litchtenstein makes a quite valuable effort in his first directed movie. This could be the beginning of an interesting new career, no doubt.
Movie Review: A Satire with Real "Teeth" to it
Summary: 4 Stars
Michael Lichtenstein`s "Teeth" is a pitch-dark feminist satire guaranteed to have the men in the audience squirming in their seats and crossing their legs in self-defense - while the women squeal in "you-go-girl!" solidarity with the heroine. With an envelope-pushing tone reminiscent of the early works of John Waters, "Teeth" pulls out all the Freudian stops in its story of an attractive young abstinence-only advocate named Dawn (Jess Weixler) who, as the result of a mutation in her DNA, has developed a set of razor-sharp teeth in her private area - a condition known in ancient mythology as "Vagina Dentata." At first she is freaked out by the discovery, until she learns that she can turn this bizarre anatomical anomaly into a weapon against any man who fails to respect her for the lady she is.
With ironic detachment and outlandish humor, "Teeth" acknowledges that, in the depths of our collective subconscious, we have been conditioned to link sexual behavior with danger, mutilation and even death. Further, we have been taught to view women as somehow posing a threat to men's continued virility and survival. From the black widow spider to the archetypal figures like Pandora, Eve, the sirens and Medusa who inhabit our literature, females are frequently portrayed as irresistible creatures luring unsuspecting men to their doom (the death can be either literal or metaphoric). "Teeth," in all its shocking outrageousness, simply finds the most graphic way imaginable of illustrating that theme.
The movie takes place in one of those stifling suburban settings where vice, corruption and perversion always seem to be simmering just beneath the surface of tree-lined streets and perfectly manicured lawns - only in this film, the real threat is hidden not in the environment but within the human body itself (unless one counts the industrial smokestacks we see lurking in the background, pumping out a constant cloud of toxic chemicals, enough to give anyone`s DNA a mutation or two).
Dawn could have been portrayed from the start as a calculating shrew intent on emasculating every man in sight out of her own twisted sense of divine righteousness. Instead, Lichtenstein and Weixler bring a perplexed poignancy to the character, starting her off as a confused kid coming to terms with just what this will mean for her as she makes her way through life. It isn't until she flashes a final subversive smile at the camera as she heads on to her newest deserving victim that we sense that her transformation into a globe-trotting warrior for her gender is finally complete.
"Teeth" is definitely for those with an appreciation for the freaky and far-out. But be prepared to cringe.
Movie Review: Weixler is sinking her teeth into this role.
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is more comedy then horror in my eyes. Seeing the previews months before hand I couldn't wait to grab hold of this and thanks to my Amazon friends who had already watched and rated this reminded me how anxious I wanted to see this. If films couldn't get any more bizarre imagine a strain of VD so powerful that one encounter with a carrier essentially kills you. The rub is that in this case, VD stands not for venereal disease but rather for the Latin " vagina dentata," e.g. "toothed vagina." If Russ Meyer had made this film, it would have been called Faster, Pussy! Kill! Kill! As it stands, the only real precursor to Teeth is a 2003 low-budget British comedy-horror film with the unlikely title of Penetration Angst.
That's certainly what some male viewers may feel after watching Teeth. The three main scenes of phallus interruptus leave nothing to the imagination and give a whole new meaning to the porn industry term `money shot.' Taken together, they add up to an experience that is tantamount to the "anti-date movie." Seriously, even if a female companion was hot to trot after the show, it's likely her male movie going pal would be too freaked out by all the slicing and dicing to take her up on it.
Unlike Fiona Horsey, the talented newcomer who has done nothing of note since the aforementioned Penetration Angst, the Juilliard grad star of Teeth, Jess Weixler, is already headed for bigger things. By sheer coincidence, today is the day casting was confirmed for the movie version of Peter and Vandy, Jay DiPietro's adaptation of his popular 2002 play of the same name. DiPietro co-starred as Peter, but in this case it's Jason Ritter who will have the honors opposite Weixler.
Teeth is very much a cult movie, a horror comedy to be devoured by thrill seeking genre fans. It's likely that Peter and Vandy will be more the kind of movie that really introduces Weixler to a wide audience, making good on the promise of her Special Jury Prize at last year's Sundance Film Festival ("For a juicy and jaw-dropping performance"). Still, her fearlessness in Teeth is to be commended. She dives into the role with abandon and is even willing for the sake of the film to do a revealing topless scene in this, her first major movie role.
Most people will know Weixler from a MasterCard TV commercial in which she plays a gal with a new job who, a la Mary Tyler Moore, skips about town while flaunting its features. The way things are taking shape, this Louisville, Kentucky native's real life debit account may also soon have her brimming with uptown energy.
Movie Review: Disturbing Yet Intelligent
Summary: 4 Stars
There's not much you can really say about this film to try and justify its content, it's simply a film about a girl who took a vow of abstinence but through a bad incident with a boy she discovers that her vagina has teeth and accidentally castrates the boy. I can't really go into detail about the film as it is of a very explicit nature but the myth of vaginas having teeth is bigger than most people will first know. It's actually called Vagina Dentata and is a mythology based on female empowerment, and although there have never been literal medical cases of toothed vaginas, it's a very literal mythology and something that a lot of remote cultures still hold this myth to be true.
The whole movie is something that doesn't hold back, after all when you're making a movie about a girl with a toothed vagina you can't really hold back too much in what you show. Most will really put down this film without thinking too much about the actual content itself. From the start of the film this is simply a film about sexuality as a whole and how, even those who have taken an oath of abstinence have the sexual temptation and how they may not be able to resist that temptation. It actually gives us a true image of how men and women actually see sex and sexuality in quite a similar way, it puts up a mirror to our society and shows that although in public we may say something differently, we actually all have the same urges and temptations. This is also a film about respect and boundaries and the result of the sex scenes in this movie with the castration element, I can imagine a lot of men will think twice before they disrespect women in a sexual way.
With the intelligence of it, there's also a bit of a "that's a bit too much" element to it and although with a movie like this you have to have the graphic scenes, there were points when you felt certain elements were unnecessary and were simply there for gross out value. It's a good movie overall and is something that I think some people should at least give a chance to.