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Grindhouse (2007)

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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 191
Fresh: 158 | Rotten: 33

Grindhouse delivers exhilarating exploitation fare with wit and panache, improving upon its source material with feral intelligence.

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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 9

Grindhouse delivers exhilarating exploitation fare with wit and panache, improving upon its source material with feral intelligence.

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
User Ratings: 300,593

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Movie Info

Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino and Sin City director Robert Rodriguez join forces to offer a cinematic tribute to the blood-soaked exploitation epics of yesteryear with this hyper-violent coupling of two full-length features punctuated by a collection of outrageous trailers. The first segment, directed by Rodriguez and entitled Planet Terror, details the violent struggle between a ravenous army of zombie-like humanoids who have taken control of the planet and the remaining survivors who

$24.9M

The Weinstein Co./Dimension

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All Critics (197) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (158) | Rotten (33) | DVD (3)

Grindhouse is both impressive and disappointing. From a technical and craft point of view it is first-rate; from its standing in the canon of the two directors, it is minor.

October 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comments (19)
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The whole thing runs a bit over three hours, goes by swiftly, contains countless film references and includes hilarious fake trailers.

April 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | Comment
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A rowdy jolt of quasi-nostalgic escapism.

April 9, 2007 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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A weaponized adrenaline rush.

April 9, 2007 Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | Comment
San Jose Mercury News
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RR and QT do an excellent job of simulating the content of grindhouse offerings, but they don't simulate the experience or the giddy kick.

April 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | Comment
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Go, I say, and enjoy.

April 9, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
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A paean to the exploitation films of the 70s, built more for titillation than story-telling, Grindhouse - especially the Rodriguez sequence - is nearly impossibly silly, not necessarily a bad thing, and is certainly not for everyone.

March 22, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
ComingSoon.net

Grindhouse is a great experience, packed with fun, thrills, chills and gore galore.

October 21, 2010 Full Review Source: IGN DVD | Comment
IGN DVD

Delivers all the trashy, seat-squirming, eye-covering moments your fiercely racing heart craves. Forget about "guilty pleasures." Call it a pleasure, and leave it at that.

June 9, 2010 Full Review Source: DCist | Comment

Half smirk, half transcendence

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

This is a movie theater experience. It needs to be seen at night, with a big screen and lots of friends.

September 4, 2008 Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review | Comment
The Scorecard Review

As amusing as the concept is, the actual result is a considerable disappointment - a high-tech forgery that lacks the disreputable charm of its models, which were made without the self-conscious affectation on display here.

July 11, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment
ESplatter

Hopefully Rodriguez and Tarantino will make more of these.

June 18, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment
ESplatter

A mediocre attempt to play with exploitation fire without getting burned. A pair of anti-septic fakes that miss the entire point of exploitation.

April 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Beyond Hollywood | Comment
Beyond Hollywood

3-D Naughtiness! Perverts in Revolt! Sinful Dwarfs! And Even a Movie Review, Why Not?

April 8, 2008 Full Review | Comment
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Has Tarantino ever made a singularly authentic, sincere, innovative frame of film in his entire life?

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: BrandonFibbs.com | Comments (8)
BrandonFibbs.com

The trailers for grindhouse movies were always better than the films themselves. Sadly, the same is true of Grindhouse.

February 14, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

Each film would have fared better as a 15-minute short.

January 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | Comment
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

It is a movie about watching itself, and that is both solipsistic and pure genius.

September 20, 2007 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
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KICKASS!!! Quentin looks weird. Weirder.

April 26, 2007
brooklynspo

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Planet Terror: 5 out of 5Death Proof: 4 out of 5

January 22, 2011
CreedsDelight

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    1. Stunt Man Mike (Death Proof): [as he drives] Hey, Pam, remember when I said this car was death proof? Well, that wasn't a lie. This car is 100% death proof.
    – Submitted by Baurushan J (7 months ago)
    1. Stunt Man Mike (Death Proof): Ladies! That was fun! Adios! [gets shot]
    – Submitted by Baurushan J (7 months ago)
    1. Lee: I can't belive a fucking Circle A clerk carries Italian Vogue.
    2. Abernathy (Death Proof): It doesn't. It's his own personal copy. He'll let it go for 27 bucks.
    3. Lee: [scoffs] 27 bucks?
    4. Abernathy (Death Proof): What the fuck do you care? We're talking about fucking per diem here. We found an issue of Italian Vogue in Lebanon, Tennessee. We're lucky he's not asking for fuckin' Krugerrands. I'm getting it, and we're splitting it three ways.
    5. Lee: What? Me, you, and Kim?
    6. Abernathy (Death Proof): No. Kim doesn't give a shit about Italian Vogue. But Brandy will come in with us, and if she won't, Tyson, her assistant, will.
    7. Lee: Okay, but if anyone tears out any sheets that I want, you gotta make color Xerox copies of those pages, and I'm not talkin' fuckin' Kinko's here either. You take it to the art department and have them do it fucking right.
    – Submitted by Gavin S (10 months ago)
    1. Lee: [to Zoë] I'm sorry, but what is 'home'? Is that Australia, right?
    2. Zoe (Death Proof): [seemingly offended] What do you mean by that, mate?
    3. Abernathy (Death Proof): Zoë's from New Zealand. And you never, I repeat, NEVER, call a Kiwi an Aussie.
    4. Kim (Death Proof): Not unless you wanna get your ass kicked.
    5. Lee: I'm so sorry, I really am.
    6. Zoe (Death Proof): [Abby, Zoë and Kim laugh] We're just taking the piss out of you, mate!
    – Submitted by Gavin S (10 months ago)
    1. Zoe (Death Proof): So let's hear it ladies. Set romances, who's gettin' it off?
    2. Kim (Death Proof): That would be Lee and Toolbox.
    3. Zoe (Death Proof): Oh, Toolbox. Name sounds promising.
    4. Abernathy (Death Proof): He's a grip.
    5. Lee: What he is, is a pervert.
    6. Zoe (Death Proof): Wow, he just keeps sounding better and better. What's his perversion?
    7. Lee: He likes to watch me pee.
    8. Kim (Death Proof): Haha! Lee is sittin' on a toilet and Toolbox is watching her pee, P-I-S-S-I-N-G.
    – Submitted by Gavin S (10 months ago)

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