Ed
Jack Cooper could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded to a minor league team but loses all hope when he discovers that Ed, one of his teammates, is a chimp. Ed used to be the team mascot, but was promoted to third base when the owners realized he had a talent for baseball. As Jack struggles to get used to his new surroundings, Ed helps him regain his confidence on and off the field.
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- Cast：
- Matt LeBlanc , Gene Ross , Paul Hewitt , Sage Allen , Stan Ivar , Jim O'Heir , Rick Johnson
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Purely Joyful Movie!
Fresh and Exciting
Fantastic!
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Im not sure I have enough to say about "Ed" to fill the mandatory ten lines but here goes. I spent the first 56 minutes of the movie feeling an intense loathing of everything on the screen, by which point my face got tired from constantly having a disapproving look; so I had to go for an ironic smile for about fourteen minutes. At one hour and nine minutes the movie apparently got tired of itself and decided to start the plot which lasted for about ten minutes, after which it went back being loathsome. Shortly after the end happened but I still feel bitter about having seen it. It's not cute, it's not funny, it' just bad.
I saw this for my 12th birthday party because my mom wouldn't take us to anything rated PG-13 or higher. So I had to pick between Ed and Homeward Bound 2. I wasn't excited about either but I went with Ed because of the baseball angle. To this day, 14 years later everyone who was at that party, kids and adults, are united in agreement that it was the worst movie we've ever seen. I've tried to rewatch it a few times and show it to my fiancé' just to laugh at how bad it is but I can't even do that. We made it through 15 minutes and she couldn't take anymore. It's completely devoid of entertainment and all the other reviews have captured the reasons why. Every now and then I like to read the comments about it and chuckle because we still talk about how bad that movie was all these years later.
Read my one line summary. Out loud, if it helps. More than once, if you need to. Do you honestly believe that it can be spoken, and that individual retaining just a smidgen of dignity, and continue to be respected? I wish I could claim that it is the only of its kind in this. Oh, how I would love to claim that this does not deserve its low rating... as I type this, it is #82 on the Bottom 100 on the site. This is irritating and intolerable from start to finish. No, I am not the intended viewer for this, but I maintain that this isn't likely to appeal to all that many. Simply put, unless you find chimps adorable and hilarious, there's nothing in this for you. It's well-trained, I'll give 'em that. I frankly wanted Ed to go nuts and kill everyone, which may be because the last 8 days, I've watched the Halloween films. If this is for children, then what's with the numerous crude jokes that are not appropriate for them? The material is atrocious, utterly devoid of creativity and the delivery is outrageously poor. If you laugh even once during this, it will probably be a reflex, or one of the kind that comes from a desperation that you can no longer contain, that you must *express*. The lead is annoying, and every "acting performance" is horrible. Jim Caviezel? Are you kidding me? Every character is one-note and stereotypical, and that girl is ridiculously precocious. The cartoon sound effects and "goofy music" try way too hard, and it winds up being embarrassing. Editing and cinematography are unimpressive. This mess manages to squeeze in every cliché in the book. I recommend this audience-insulting crap solely to those who have no taste, or those who *have to* see for themselves how awful it is. Your movie sucks, Matt. 1/10
I first saw this movie while I was living as an Italian immigrant in New Zeland at the age of 10 in 1998...it was a movie that sky cinema proposed,so as a child I couldn't miss the movie of a chimp that saved a Californian minor league team. Any of my future ambitions was so much disappointing. Here we are now in 2008,exactly 10 years after, while i'm searching strange movies on IMDb for a good laugh,that this ''movie'' appears to my memories again and a long chill goes through my spine. I had to write a comment at this awful movie. My mind goes to all the unfortunate people that payed the cinema ticket to watch this bad copy of a movie,and to all the producers that have the face to propose such a shameful movie.I remember that back in '96 this movie was publicized as much as ''Slepeers'' and Robin Williams ''Jack''int he TV movie trailers,just to make the point. If you find funny the idea of a chimpanzee that farts and makes the poor Leblache eat dog food this is the movie for you. I think that the vote up reported is very generous.
