The Onion Movie
by Tom Kuntz, Mike Maguire, James Kleiner
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Actor: Abigail Mavity, Daniel Dae Kim, Larissa Laskin, Len Cariou, Steven SeagalDirector: James Kleiner, Mike Maguire, Tom Kuntz
Brand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Onion Movie
Movie Review: Important Technical Note Regarding This DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Apparently, simply watching the DVD will not be as funny as watching the Onion online. The DVD will not do anything by itself. The DVD will need to be removed from its case and inserted into some kind of intermediate decoding / playback device that in turn needs to be connected to a television set.
*Note that the image size on a TV set will be much, much larger than the image presented on your computer screen. You will need to adjust your seating position accordingly. You can also invite both your friends over to watch the DVD with you, making it a social event as was common before the Internet fad changed everything.
Summary of The Onion Movie
This just in...The Onion invades DVD! Based on the wildly popular newspaper hailed by The New Yorker as ??the funniest publication in the United States,? The Onion Movie brings you uncensored, uninhibited, UNRATED news and views from around the world. In a stunning development, when Onion News anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is asked to compromise his journalistic integrity to please a new corporate sponsor, he doesn??t just get mad, he gets...angry. Taking aim at pop stars, prisoners, peace talks and, of course, high-testosterone action films, The Onion Movie delivers hard-hitting headlines?"and side-splitting laughs!Shelved since 2003 then released straight to DVD, the feature-length Onion Movie is based on the satirical nationwide newspaper The Onion, which works better in print than on celluloid. That said, hardcore Onion fans will appreciate this effort to enliven text with filmed comedic sketches that strongly resemble Saturday Night Live news and National Lampoon. Directors Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire translate what would normally read as sarcastic headlines into slapstick skits starring three news reporters, Norm Archer (Len Cariou), Larissa Laskin (Dana Dobbs), and Scott Klace (Kip Kendall), reporting on idiotic events either live or in the studio. The newsreel opens, for example, with a report from Archer on the dangers of "neck belts" in automobiles, that have lately been decapitating drivers. Spoofs on everyone and everything, from slutty teen stars, racial stereotyping, the handicapped, to military recruitment officials turned peaceful by marijuana, add plenty of characteristically perverse and iffy Onion humor to this odd film. The Onion Movie relies loosely on a plot in which Norm Archer, devoted anchorman, protests a toy penguin interrupting his screen time in the name of advertising an upcoming film, Cockpuncher, that the network?s corporate sponsor, Global Tetrahedron, has funded. This facetious action film featuring Steven Seagal, looks a little too life-like after Norm takes measures to fight the power. At an hour and a half, news skits interrupted by fake commercials and Archer?s fits of rage feel played out, though skit-to-skit, the news broadcasts are quite hilarious, making the film an overall winner if you?re in the mood for mockery. --Trinie Dalton
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