The Onion Movie

The Onion Movie

The Onion Movie

The Onion Movie

What movie did that guy see? He said he would rather take a *-punch than watch The Onion Movie again? This movie had great sight gags, shots at politics in America and movie stars. That guy who slammed this movie must laugh at the Dane Cook abortions that make it to the theater. We need more satire movies like this one. David Zucker has made other funny movies before like Baseketball, High School High, all the Naked Gun movies, and Airplane movies. He knows how to make people laugh. There were great cameos from TV stars, movie stars, comedians from Best Week Ever, stand-up comedians and of course Steven Seagal! In summary, I am not going to give away the plot, but of the 80 minutes of the movie, I think I laughed hard for about 60 minutes of that time. Case closed.

I have been following the Onion since I was a high school student driving to Madison to get its forbidden fruits. This "movie" was completely horrible. It had to happen, I suppose, given the paper's popularity, but this film is uninspired and perhaps the worst thing you would ever see. ..Assuming you have a sense of humor... There was not one funny line in this "film". Hitting Youtube on random would yield a better result. If you have already grown sick of the Onion's repetitive headlines, you will find nothing of value here.

If you love the Onion you'll hate this movie. For that matter, if you hate The Onion you'll hate this movie. Its dreadful. No wonder it didn't get distribution. Did anyone who has anything to do with the actual Onion have anything to do with this movie? If so, its probably their summer interns or something. None of the brilliant wit and social commentary is in this boring piece of garbage. This format in general is pretty flawed. I can't think of any sketch feature films that really is able to maintain an audience with out having a running story line through out. There is a small attempt made for one. The anchor is upset that the network is going corporate. Of course every network news is owned by a corporation, but I get its a movie. Still it goes nowhere and I literally laughed once the whole time and that was probably a forced one just to not feel like I had entirely wasted an hour and a half of my life.

It was by pure coincidence I stumbled upon this movie and to be honest I didn't have any expectations. However, Ten minutes into it, I knew I was watching a gem. This would have to be one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. It's no holds barred satire kept me laughing from the start right to the end. So much so I was sore from laughing. Whoever finally gave this movie a green light for release should be commended. The real pity is that 'The Onion Movie' is straight to DVD where it runs a real chance of slipping into obscurity. Don't let this happen! If you have a sense of humor, you will love this movie.

This movie is just so funny, normally a movie has his funny moments, this movie doesn't IT IS FUN!! Steven Seagal makes the film even more funny! This is his genre not the action but COMEDY!! This is a movie which has several little videos in it. Much of them are all funny, Len Cariou is also acting good. If you're angry or something like that, you will be happy after watching this video, just a awesome movie in his genre. Steven Seagal for the Win!! I would recommend this movie to everyone who wants to have fun and entertainment. Keep it up like this Steven ;). Oh and don't buy the BATES 4000.

I bought this without really hearing anything about it. And why not - I'm a huge fan of The Onion, own all the books, etc. I just love their witty, overly-sarcastic take on everyday life. However, sometimes what's funny in print doesn't necessarily translate well to video. And in the case of this (circa 2003) movie, none of it does. In short, it's simply not funny - in fact, it's almost painful in its stupidity. If you need a video onion fix, check out the Onion news network on their site - at least that has its moments (they've obviously learned how to do it a lot better since this movie). But if you are expecting the same sharp, smart humor of the website, you will not find it in this movie. Save your money.

This is certainly one of the most vulgar and tasteless comedy films of all time, which is a string of successive and unrelated sketches claiming to be satirical. There is no subtlety whatever in this product of 'The Onion'. And yet if you look at the website theonion.com you will find some subtlety. So what went wrong? Clearly, some dumbing-down and an attempt to appeal to something very far below the lowest common denominator. Is it necessary for satire to include constant references to penises, '*-busting', oral sex, and so forth? Would satire not be more effective if even the slightest attempt were made to keep cool? Is the desperate quest for popularity with the crudest members of the public (using the flawed logic that they must be the greatest number, hence source of the greatest revenues) something serious satirists should be stooping to? Surely it must be obvious that morons who like that kind of humour are too stupid to understand satire anyway. This monstrously flawed project does no credit to anyone, even to those like myself who laughed at some of it anyway. But then, you either laugh or you vomit, and laughing is less painful. Nevertheless, I feel dirty. No one should watch this DVD, because it is an offense against good taste and civilised values. It is crude, vulgar, offensive, disgusting, tasteless, perverted, banal, undignified, and an insult to women and minorities. Who will be the first member of the production team to commit ritual suicide by way of atonement? On TV, please.