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Saving Silverman
Sony Pictures Entertainment
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language, and thematic material
Starring
Jason Biggs,
Steve Zahn,
Jack Black,
Amanda Peet,
Amanda Detmer,
R. Lee Ermey,
and
Neil Diamond
Traces the misadventures of buddies J.D. (Black) and Wayne (Zahn), who begin to suspect that their best friend, Darren Silverman (Biggs), is going to allow himself to be badgered into marrying Judith (Peet), a woman he doesn't love. They decide to reunite him with his long lost love from their school days (Detmer) -- even if they have to kidnap Judith to do it. (Columbia Tristar)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Hank Nelken
Greg DePaul
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Dennis Dugan
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 17, 2001
Video: July 17, 2001
Theatrical: February 9, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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70
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
I was laughing myself sick over Saving Silverman, a sublimely idiotic farce in the "There's Something About Mary" tradition.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Yes, it's stupid. But sometimes it's stupid with a capital S, and it's in those moments of transcendent idiocy that you can't help liking Saving Silverman. At least, a little bit.

60
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
It's doubtful that the haste with which two actors of the same sex break away from a kiss in this comedy was in the script, but otherwise everybody stays in character, which is impressive given the manic range of some of the roles and the comic monotony of others.

60
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
This is harmless stuff, and sometimes it's actually pretty funny, too.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A standard-issue numskull comedy that aims low but is high in energy.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
It's basically a cheerful slob job, one of those slapped-together features so often embraced by teenagers with more disposable income than discernible taste.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The film is a shapeless mess and about as convincing as a cartoon, the usual mix of slapstick, doofus humor and raunchy sex jokes lacking even the bite or attitude to make it adventurous.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Witless comedy.

40
Village Voice
Edward Crouse
A sharp-dumb, jack- and goof-off affair.

38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Relentlessly dopey and vulgar.
35
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Black, who is creatively marooned in the thankless Chris Farley fat-boy role, deserve better, and so do we.

25
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
The movie drags down everyone involved, regardless of their apparent talent.
25
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The kind of comedy that takes the fun out of stupidity.
25
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Screenwriters look to many sources for inspiration. In the case of Saving Silverman,
they looked behind them, and liked what they saw.

25
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Not just stupid, but brain dead.

25
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
The timing is off, the gags lame, the twists predictable, the crudity rampant and unamusing.

25
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
A grating experience from start to finish.

20
Film.com
Sean Means
Chaotic, peurile, loaded with sniggering commentary and obsessed with breasts, Saving Silverman is like a 90-minute walk through a 13-year-old boy's head.

20
Variety
Robert Koehler
Misbegotten, unimaginative buddy pic.

20
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Every movie Dugan releases looks like something made on accident--tosses yet another stink bomb into theaters for audiences to sniff over.

20
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Let's accentuate the positive: Saving Silverman really stinks. No, really. It's bad. Awful.

20
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Does occasionally rise out of the sewer of its self-imposed idiocy, ascending in brief moments from utter witlessness to half-witlessness, mostly thanks to the loose comic byplay between Mr. Black and Mr. Zahn.

12
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
So bad in so many different ways that perhaps you should see it, as an example of the lowest slopes of the bell-shaped curve.

12
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Just when the story reaches its idiotic nadir, Neil (Diamond) shows up to save the day with a song and a smile.
10
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Peet is always worth watching, but the role does her no favors, and the script, involving a kidnapping and a surprise cameo by Neil Diamond - you heard me - smacks of desperation beyond saving.

0
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Reaches toward new heights of comic laziness and succeeds beyond anyone's wildest expectations.

0
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
In one rotten production -- all involved have managed to create the most unlikable, man hating, woman hating, unfunny idiots since ''Whipped'' ended up on worst movie lists last year.

0
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
The movie can barely muster the bravery to be even "Dude, Where's My Car" stoopid.

0
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
One thing the makers of Saving Silverman do not have to worry about: Hannibal Lecter will never visit them to eat their brains. That is because they have no brains.


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