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As Good As It Gets

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

On RottenTomatoes, this film is ranked as one of the worst movies of all time with 44 negative reviews and zero positive reviews. It seems to not be that well known of a film seeing as how there's only 18 reviews here (well 19 counting mine). It's amazing that we have such a massive number of National Lampoon movies and most of them (especially the later) are horrible. It's gotten to the point where I've seen so many awful comedies I don't even really care anymore. This movie's plot has these two guys who marry these old ladies thinking they're going to inherit a fortune. They plan to kill each other.I sincerely do want to see everyone dead by the end of it. We get these two scenes where a murder attempt kills these two guys. Gee, I wonder what happens in the next scene with another failed murder attempt? Another guy dies and by being bitten on the crotch, how highbrow. 30 minutes into the movie it appears as though the old ladies die and it honestly seems like we'll have a new interesting plot. Too bad, it was all just a dream and we have to deal with the further idiocy of this film. I recognized Will Friedle in live-action as he voices Ron Stoppable from "Kim Possible". It's easy to say this is the worst thing he's ever been in. Much of the movie's humor goes through how these old women want to seduce these young men and it's as disgusting as it sounds, especially the whipped cream scene, which I don't want to elaborate on. These characters are such idiots as they throw away lemonade that they think tastes good...for some reason? I just know that after saying when life gives you lemons, she'll say you kill someone. I wish Mike Nelson had seen this as I couldn't see how anyone would stomach this more than "Little Nicky". 1/2*

This movie is quite good, except for the ending. It has very funny characters and very interesting actors. I enjoyed watching it and I honestly tell you that everyone that says it's not a good movie is either full of envy or just doesn't know to appreciate a quality picture. I laughed and I laughed and I gave it a 10 vote because I consider the producers have done a very good making this film. I like it because the humor is very spiked and the script has very beautiful twists. It's an excellent comedy, if you like watching good actors playing spectacular roles. The old ladies are not actually that old in reality and the other actors knew how to play their part into making a masterpiece.

This is a pretty unfunny film that hardly made me laugh at all, with annoying performances, what happened National Lampoon?. All the characters are unfunny, and dull, and while the ending was kind of cute it was the only really decent thing about the film, plus while this film advertises Nikki Ziering heavily on the cover, she is barely to be found in the film, so that was disappointing. It also claimed it was raunchy, I was also disappointed in that department too, as it wasn't that raunchy at all, and it's pretty poorly made too, plus while I enjoyed Chris Owen as Sherman in the American Pie Films he wasn't very good at all here. Louise Lasser and Renée Taylor are fun as the Mundt's but it's not enough, and thankfully it's only over 80 minutes otherwise it would have been unbearable, plus while I usually enjoy stuff like this this just wasn't funny. I can see why this hasn't gotten all the harsh reviews, and National Lampoon really seems to bringing out crappy movies lately and this is one of them for sure!. This is a pretty unfunny film that hardly made me laugh at all, with annoying performances, and I say avoid it!. The Direction is pretty bad. Gary Preisler does a pretty bad job here with OK camera work, but keeping the film unfunny throughout!. The Acting is terrible and not very fun at all. Will Friedle is OK, but wasn't very funny, he had good chemistry with Chris Owen, but didn't really make me laugh, and was rather annoying at times. Chris Owens was funny as Sherman in the American Pie films, but here he is the exact opposite totally unfunny, it's not really his fault cause the film didn't give him much to work with, still I was very disappointed. Louise Lasser and Renée Taylor are good as The Mundt's, but that's about it, they still managed to keep the film somewhat bearable though. Nikki Ziering is gorgeous, and the film advertises her heavily but she hardly has any screen time at all, and was wasted, I was incredibly disappointed. Rest of the cast are equally as bad. Overalll avoid it!, what has happened National Lampoon?. * out of 5

the plot line of this movie offered great promise. it made me think a couple of stupid guys marrying some old hags that going to be funny, gross but funny. But like almost all recent national lampoon movies save for Van Wilder this movie lets your expectations down. That doesn't mean that this movie doesn't have its funny moments but those moments, and especially the end leave you with the feeling, That Could Have Been Funnier. the movie also lacks the bevy of bikini clad and unclad beauties that most national lampoons movies have. Nikki is a hottie though but she isn't enough to increase the ratings. all in all a good movie if you cant think of anything else, but it cant be called THE last resort, its like the movie you take before you opt for something worse like Jason X or something.