miniboot Reviews

Starsky & Hutch (2004)

Good, but not as good as 'Heavyweights'

[13 March 2004]

Not bad, not great.

It was a funny movie, but didn't really have any laugh out loud, really funny moments. It will keep you chuckling and is worth going to see, but occasionally you just want Ben Stiller to revert to his Heavyweights character. On a personal note, the best thing about it was the 'Heavyweights' reference, when he goes into the character of Tony Perkis Sr. "Lighting Fixture" king from aforementioned movie. In fact, that reference had me lose interest in the rest of this movie altogether, and play Heavyweights in my mind.

Speaking of which, Heavyweights is a much better movie, I'm going to watch it now. Let's say 3.5 out of 5 for this one, it's not as good as Zoolander either.

Heavyweights (1995)

review + question

[10/10 · 9 August 2002]

The film is great, I don't need to write another review of the synopsis as there are so many below, but if you have any sense of humour at all you'll like this movie. If you're a dried up 60 year old prune reminiscing about the good old days of black and white cinema when you could see a film + popcorn for a shilling and sixpence, you'll hate it. Great for kids, enough stupid stuff to keep them entertained, Fantastic for teenagers/people in their 20s, enough sick/dry humour to satisfy and make you think 'holy crap can they say that in a DISNEY film????', and older middle aged people with a sense of humour will see its quirky side too.

I just have one question, at one point with the seymour butts joke, does anyone know what josh actually says, as his joke is totally out of sync with his lip movements.