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1987 |
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COMEDY
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US |
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C |
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| Length: |
94 |
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ANTI Reviews
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The initial inspiration sags into the worst aspects of Saturday morning TV - its repetitiousness, banality, and bald sadism. Instead of invention, Raising Arizona settles for gags that were stale when the Three Stooges used them. Long before the end, the Coens abandon comedy altogether for a Mad Max romp of car chases and explosions and an endless, Capraesque homily that leaves the stunned viewer waiting, in vain, for a punchline.
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| (Peter Keough, Chicago Reader) |
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Everyone in Raising Arizona talks funny. They all elevate their dialogue to an arch and artificial level that's distracting and unconvincing and slows down the progress of the film. And what Raising Arizona needs more than anything else is more velocity. Here's a movie that stretches out every moment for more than it's worth, until even the moments of inspiration seem forced. Since the basic idea of the movie is a good one and there are talented people in the cast, what we have here is a film shot down by its own forced and mannered style.
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| (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) |
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Stupefyingly boring... Any picture that stars Nicolas Cage is off to a shaky start, and when Cage is supposed to be winsome, the shakes become tremors.
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(Stanley Kauffmann, New Republic)
The astonishing thing about Raising Arizona is how it can move so fast, be so loud, and remain so relentlessly boring at the same time... Raising Arizona is miraculously adept technically... But all this wizardry is in the service of really cretinous humor and a deeply condescending viewpoint.
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| (Sheila Benson, L.A. Times) |
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Close to unwatchable: unfunny, technologically impelled, showy, and not just empty but condescending.
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| (David Thomson, A Biographical Dictionary of Film, 1980) |
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, Holly Hunter 
