Repossessed
It's been some time since Father Jebedaiah Mayii exorcised the Devil from little Nancy Aglet, who is now grown up with a husband and two children of her own. But the prince of darkness wants to go a second round and has returned to repossess her! With Father Mayii unwilling to help, Father Luke Brophy tries his best to help Nancy, even when TV's Ernest Weller plans to air the exorcism live on TV.
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- Cast:
- Linda Blair , Ned Beatty , Leslie Nielsen , Anthony Starke , Thom Sharp , Lana Schwab , Benj Thall
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Best movie of this year hands down!
You won't be disappointed!
Why so much hype?
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Leslie Nielsen stars in another spoof, this time parodying The Exorcist. Linda Blair returns and spoofs her own character, as Nancy Aglet, and is again possessed by the demon. As a result, Nielsen's character, Father Jebedaiah Mayii, is called upon to help vanquish the demon - all the while the exorcism is being broadcast on live TV by a sensationalist show.As with any Nielson spoofs, there are lots of gags from start to finish, along with some slapstick humor and endless parodies of various movies, from The Wizard of Oz to Rambo III. It was nice seeing the return of Linda Blair and she does a good job in recreating her role as the possessed girl, inserting tastefully done humor when necessary. However, the plot did lose steam by the time the movie focused on the TV show broadcasting the exorcism, which I thought made the film become more like a game-show than a comedy spoof. Therefore, it's not the best of Nielson's spoofs, but still laughable nonetheless.Grade C+
Leslie Nielsen was always at his best when he could hook up with the "Airplane"/"Naked Gun"-team, which consisted of gifted writers like Pat Proft, Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers. "Repossessed" is written and directed by the guy who made "Meatballs 4". That should probably give you a fair idea of what this movie is like, though it does feature less Corey Feldman water-skiing than expected. Somewhat surprisingly there are some jokes in here that work (the bible vending machine ruled), but overall this just really feels like everyone's trying way, way too hard. Especially the visual gags have that bothersome "laugh, damn it!" feel to them, they're so close to "Naked Gun" but just not quite. Same goes for the obligatory breakings of the fourth wall, not bad but not really focused enough to generate big laughs. Nielsen's talents are rather wasted here, though I must say he is about the only element that made me keep watching. It's also a very nice touch that Linda Blair agreed to do this movie, even though I have absolutely no idea why she did. Not because of the solid screenplay, I'm pretty sure of that. This is in all ways a sub-par spoof, but I reckon it's still watchable for avid Nielsen fans.
if your a leslie nielsen fan and enjoyed airplane and the naked gun, then you will enjoy repossessed, a spoof version of the exorcist, and while it isn't the best in the genre, and leslie nielsen does have funnier movies out there, repossessed is an enjoyable enough comedy that delivers some great laughs as leslie nielsen's priest does battle with the devil. the comedy is very broad and low brow but trust me when your in the mood for it, this is a winner, all in all another funny comedy in the lelsie nielsen cannon, sure its not naked gun or airplane hilereous, it is much funnier than mr.magoo and santa who, leslie nieslen is great in this, watch it
I always have love parodies. "Airplane!", "The Naked Gun" (And its sequels), "Pandemonium" and "Scary Movie" are my favorites. Make good parodies is very difficult. Bob Logan's "Repossessed" is a great example of a good parody. Much people don't give it a chance, but i really think that this is a great comedy, of course with some flaws but and outstanding Linda Blair, and a funny Leslie Nielsen, "Repossessed" becomes to be one of my favorite comedies and parodies."Repossessed" is the funny satire to the original and terrible but excellent "The Exorcist" (1973), which have too Linda Blair in the same character. But, is necessary that you understand what i try to say first with the plot of the original parodied film. William Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist" is about a little girl who is possessed by the devil, and how a poor mother and the faith of a young priest its debated in his own believes. The film was one of the most shocking dramatic horror and at the same time spiritual since then. But much of the cast and crew suffer a lot, and Linda Blair, with only 12 years, was one of the most affected. Linda Blair was the famous possessed girl. As i seen in an "A& E" biography, Linda don't have a calm adolescence. Since then was like a curse for her. "Repossessed" was like a real salvation, a real exorcism for that course, for that demon who pursuit her since the original film. She want laugh of that suffer, she want laugh of the devil, so she do "Repossessed".Bob Logan's "Repossessed" is perfect. Makes laugh with ironical situations, besides of awesome performances (I love the performance of Anthony Starke). I think that "Repossesed" is not so simple as much of us think. Of course is silly, but far of that has a lot messages: The media and how have control of the audience (Like "Network" for example), how maybe the believes and religion are not so different, and how we can laugh of the devil and the suffering in this way. "Repossessed" is silly, of course. But this foolishness had a great meaning.*Sorry for the mistakes... well, if there any.