The Onion Movie (2008)

Directors:

Tom Kuntz
Mike Maguire

Writers (WGA):

Todd Hanson (written by) &
Robert D. Siegel (written by)

Release Date:

7 January 2008 (Brazil)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

America's finest news source.

Plot:

Satirical interpretations of world events and curious human behavior.

Plot Keywords:

Terrorist | Commercial | Penguin | Fake Ad | Nudity

Cast

Daniel Chacón	...	Young American / Cock Puncher
Ken Takemoto	...	Sensei
Steven Seagal	...	Cock Puncher
Don McManus	...	Dennis McCormick
Kate Fuglei	...	Dolores McCormick
Abigail Mavity	...	Roseanne McCormick
Reid Weaver	...	Dennis McCormick, Jr.
Brian Powell	...	Typical Neighbor Husband
Adele Robbins	...	Typical Neighbor Wife
Jason L. Miller	...	Sooty Firefighter
Brendon Baerg	...	Sooty Child
Len Cariou	...	Norm Archer
Larissa Laskin	...	Dana Dobbs
Scott Klace	...	Kip Kendall
Barbara Pilavin	...	Alzheimers Old Lady

Also Known As:

News Movie (UK) (DVD title)
Onion Movie (USA) (working title)
The Untitled Onion Movie (USA) (working title)
Untitled Onion Sketch Comedy Project (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Russian

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:MA | UK:15 (video rating) | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:16 | New Zealand:R16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

3 Arts Entertainment

Trivia:

Originally filmed in late 2003, this was subsequently shelved for many years and never released theatrically (allegedly after poor test screening). Finally released directly to DVD in June 2008.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scene they are playing the board game and one of the guys is drinking "Hawaiian punch" the level of the drink goes from full to empty back to full.

Quotes:

Norm Archer: The internet went down for three hours this morning, plunging the nation into productivity. The outage, which caused major work startages from New York to California, prevented an estimated 120 million American employees from messing around on the web at work.

Movie Connections:

References Network (1976)

Enjoyably stupid satire

Ran across this by accident. Quite hilarious in a really stupid no-holds-barred spoof of the idiotness that the American culture and the American way of life have become. A sort of Idiocracy that takes place in the present instead of the future.

Some of the gags ran a little flat, but somehow even that worked for making the sillier gags even more silly.

This movie is pretty much a rip on MSM, the shallowness that has become the American cultural landscape, and just about anything else the makers of the move happened to think of at the moment that was in need of having fun poked at.

Had me snickering and guffawing out loud several times.

Could have used a little tightening up here and there, but overall, very humorous.

Not at all recommended for watching by anal retentives. They will not find this movie funny.