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the audience applauded

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Holy god! Can comedy get any funnier? I am an absolutely enormous Kids in the Hall fan and although at first this movie didn't strike me as a "Kids" masterpiece like their series was I soon came to realize that the reason I was somewhat disappointed was because I didn't get to see appearances from the legendary "Head-Crusher" or "Buddy" but once I kept watching past the first few minutes and got to catch a glimpse at the classic Don character and of course who can forget Bruce McCulloch as Cancer Boy? So if you don't get to see some classic head crushing bits, what do you get to see? Well, I'm going to answer my own question. You get to see Michael McDonald finding the formula for "happy," Bruce McColloch rockin' out to Happiness Pie and giving us an amazing "Whistle if You're Loved" performance, Mark McKinney playing one of my favorite characters (Don), Dave Foley's awkward moment as the New Scientist, and Scott Thompson dressed up as an old lady spinning around in a giant and pointless testing machine.Probably my favorite scene in the entire movie is Chris Cooper's flash back to his depressed father coming home from working and having trouble shooting himself (which he finally does after 2-hours worth of tries). And then of course there is the kiss shared by Michael McDonald and Bruce McCulloch at the end of the movie.But does this mean that the Kids have strayed away from their roots? Of course not! There is still plenty of cross-dressing, jokes about business men, jokes about Scott Thompson's sexuality, and of course, many absurdly random moments (bird flying into Bruce McCulloch's eye).So if you are a Kids in the Hall fan or a patient diagnosed with depression there is no way you can miss this absolutely hilarious, clever, absurd, and well-written performance by our friends from up North. I can safely say this is classic comedy worthy of Groucho Marx Level praise.WATCH IT!

The TV show was funny as hell, although it was sometimes hit-and-miss ; but what sketch show isn't. This movie contains a well planned plot executed by a diverse but motley crew of characters. It makes you think that the BBC show League of Gentlemen isn't as original as you thought it was! Also, the impersonation of Lorne Michaels is spot-on, and makes you think the Dr Evil character from Austin Powers isn't as original as you thought either (as they are both spoofing Mr Michaels - who produced both SNL for Myers and Kids in the Hall).Great fun... and try not to laugh out loud at the 'cancer boy' character.

Certainly one of the few excellent films that I have seen David Foley in. I saw this, quite by chance, on television and I was amazed that I had not even heard of a film this good. It is several years since I saw it, and 8 since it was made, but this is truly worth seeing.The plot is fairly run-of-the-mill comedic insanity, but the characters are what truly makes this so fun. The writing is very very good and I think complaints of bad language are bizarre in the context of this movie, because if you don't like the language how are you going to enjoy the sentiment...One character's key fantasy is being "sent in" to bugger enemy soldiers on maneouvres.My favourite scene is the brainstorming session with the Ultra-Cool A**hole Advertising Executive who comes up with their slogan.

Deep inside the heart of this film is a very cunning satire on the need for happiness and prozak type drugs. The need for things to be perfect is a lie-nothing's ever totally perfect, and if there was no more room for improvement what would be the purpose of doing anything? Somewhat ironically this is the problem with the movie- it's nowhere to being perfect. It's far below Kids in the Hall standards. And if it weren't for the problems they had to face in completing it, this would have turned out to be a real classic instead of just the small cult classic it became. If Dave Foley wasn't pulled to the states all the time, if the writing had the same competitiveness as they had in their show, and if they were together more often then it would have worked. However, they still seem to share and support each other in performance as usual. But there's just too much of one thing and not enough of the other. Sometimes it seems like Scott Thompson wrote the whole thing himself. Not that the parts with Wally aren't funny, but there's just too much of it. There's too much sexual humour that it spoils the joke, just like too much water can ruin the broth. This is still a good film for any fan's collection. But if you want to delve into what the Kids were really like besides their show, Same Guys New Dresses and Tour of Duty are probably what you're looking for. They;ve always been better live anyway.