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07/21/07
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Eagle Vs. Shark (2007)
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Reviews Counted:101
Fresh:55
Rotten:46
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Though there are frequent moments of wit and mordant humor, Eagle vs Shark needs more to distinguish itself from other precious, Napoleon Dynamite-ish comedies.
Theatrical Release:Jun 15, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $142,513
Synopsis: Which is the more dangerous predator: an eagle or a shark? That's a trick question. Don't try to answer it. You'll have your own opinion by the end of Taika Waititi's deliciously tangy, deadpan... [More]
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Loren Horsley, Brian Sergent, Joel Tobeck
Director: Taika Waititi
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10/18/08
A shameless rip-off of indie hit Napoleon Dynamite, this New Zealand comedy may contain the odd laugh, but it doesn’t come with many original ideas.
08/17/07
The film wants to be your cuddly, quirky friend, and makes you feel bad for not returning the affection.
08/17/07
Long story short: Although I didn't care for Eagle vs. Shark, I'd be eager to see whatever [director] Cohen makes next.
07/05/07
Eagle vs. Shark might have seemed amusingly original, albeit in a self-consciously quirky, indie-movie kind of way, if Napoleon Dynamite didn't already exist.
07/06/07
Top CriticThe movie is so self-consciously odd and twee it's hard to connect with the sad-sack characters. Waititi borrowed the formula for Dynamite but created a damp firecracker.
07/05/07
A paean film to lonely misfits that follows along the same tracks as "Napoleon Dynamite," and relies entirely on being a charmer.
12/21/07
If you're going to make fun of awkward chavs, even with the best will in the world, you have to avoid simply laughing at them.
08/17/07
Scornful laughs are cheap laughs, and although [director] Waititi allows a few moments of gentle sweetness, he takes the easy way out too often.
06/15/07
As its title unintentionally implies, the movie is at war with itself, unsure whether to mock or to sympathize with its socially maladjusted charcaters, resulting in a schizoid picture that's equally touching and frustrating.
06/10/07
Eagle vs Shark is self-consciously odd and only wants to hold up its protagonists as objects of derision.
07/15/07
Wants to be charmingly off-kilter but comes across as insufferably grating.
06/14/07
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06/16/07
A movie that, in its static presentation and gangly, geek characters, bears such a resemblance to Jared Hess' [Napoleon Dynamite] that -- gosh! -- you'd think that Hess might need to have his attorneys go after a royalty check or two.
06/15/07
Though the result is desperately trendy, it's also seriously short on innovation, coasting mostly on the fumes of previous, and better, indie-fare.
07/19/07
As likeable as the movie was, I just didn't find it as funny as I thought I would.
08/23/08
The movie's idea of funny is giving the two lovers identical moles bordering their upper lips.
07/27/07
It becomes increasingly difficult to care one way or another about characters who act like they have undergone frontal lobotomies.
06/15/07
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