Too precariously straddles the line between fun and cheese, often going a bit too far over the top.
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04/08/09
Idle Hands (1999)
15 %
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Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 8
Rotten:44
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Consensus: Idle Hands has neither the humor or the scares to satisfy audiences.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Anton is a teenage stoner who, one Halloween season, realizes two days after the fact that his parents have been beheaded. He is even more disturbed to learn that the culprit may be his recently... [More]
Starring: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Eldon Henson, Vivica A. Fox
Director: Rodman Flender
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10/18/08
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08/07/08
Ganha pontos pelo perverso senso de humor, mas acaba soando demais como uma cópia de "Evil Dead 2" para merecer uma recomendação.
04/08/08
Were you expecting a teen remake of The Hands of Orlac? Don't hold your breath.
12/06/05
Maybe 90 seconds of viable and sustained humor at the end.
07/21/05
Top CriticIt jumps from one path to the next without any sense of continuity.
04/09/05
Stupid, silly fun with a decent amount of gore and heavy dose of teen humor
06/19/04
All of these people can make better movies than this, and most of them have.
03/10/04
Is it a spoof, or is it just stupid ... or is it a stupid spoof?
05/20/03
It's an infalliby funny gambit...
12/02/02
The attempts to extract comedy from this grim raw material are leaden, blood-soaked disasters.
10/15/02
Its mixture of slapstick humour and gore -- produced by the flying fingers -- gives new meaning to the phrase digital effects.
03/22/02
Top CriticWhen it's over, you may feel like cutting off your own hand for having paid good money at the ticket counter.
02/27/01
A script filled with blunt dialogue on sex, drugs and violence that's neither funny nor particularly original.
01/01/00
If an original thought found its way into this horror-comedy it would die of loneliness.
01/01/00
When a movie sets out to be awful and achieves its goal, does that make it a success?
01/01/00
Top CriticFunnier than it is scary, and not very funny at that.
01/01/00
Performances are adequate, but mostly uninspired.
01/01/00
The most overtly ideological moment comes when pot-smoking proves the boys' best weapon against evil.
01/01/00
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