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Not to be mistaken for a sequel to the Sandra Bullock drunk drama "28 Days," Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later..." is more a remake--or a nod to, or let's be honest here and call it a complete rip-off--of George A. Romero's apocalyptic horror masterpiece "Dawn of the Dead" (a superior sequel to his 1968 nightmare "Night of the Living Dead").
A prime example of Roth's failed satire comes in the form of what many moviegoers will undoubtedly take as racist humor, but in reality is just a weak nod to Howard Stern's "My Niggaz" radio bit (Roth was a Production Assistant on Private Parts).
He garnered sympathy as Howard Stern’s put upon producer, Kenny Pig Vomit’ Rushton, in “Private Parts,” and stole the show as the conniving, arrogant filmmaker, Marty Wolf, in “Big Fat Liar.”
¢ Paul Giamatti, an overweight, balding character actor who, until last year's "American Splendor," was best known as "Pig Vomit" in Howard Stern's "Private Parts."
"Charlie's Angels" does what "The Brady Bunch Movie" did in 1995, in that it brings to the big screen whatever good things the TV show had to offer, and openly mocks all the bad things.
While recent years have given us Krisha, Rachel Getting Married and Flight as stories of people battling different types of addiction, you need to look as far back as the year 2000 to land on 28 Days as a major film focusing solely on addiction and disease recovery.
Arielle Kebbel of “John Tucker Must Die” is practically the sole new addition to this soap opera, as a flirtatious architect who must be taught her place by the new Mrs.
Following in the hallowed footsteps of The Brady Bunch Movie, 21 Jump Street revives a vintage TV series and subverts it at the same time.
Maybe you never saw Love At First Bite or The Brady Bunch Movie (it seems like Tim Burton didn't bother to watch them either -- or maybe he watched them too much and decided to make his own versions).
Lending adequate support are Mark Addy (1997's "The Full Monty") and Alan Tudyk (2000's "28 Days"), as William's lovable sidekicks; Paul Bettany (1998's "The Land Girls"), very funny as writer Geoffrey Chaucer, who becomes William's spokesperson; Laura Fraser (1999's "Titus"), as a canny, resourceful peasant girl who befriends William; and Rufus Sewell (1998's "Dark City") as the token bad guy, and William's competing nemesis.
The Addams Family (1991)
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
influenced The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
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The whole thing seems like it was pitched as “Austin Powers meets The Addams Family, with maybe some of that self-referential humor from The Brady Bunch Movie.”