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Idle Hands (1999)

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Reviews Counted:53

Fresh:8

Rotten:45

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... 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 demon-possessed hand. With the help of some fellow young drug abusers, some sharp objects (used to disembody several body parts), and a demon hunter (Viveca A. Fox), he may possibly restore some normalcy to his life. [More]

Starring: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Eldon Henson, Vivica A. Fox

Starring: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Eldon Henson, Vivica A. Fox, Jessica Alba, Sean Whalen, Fred Willard, Jack Noseworthy, Katie Wright

Director: Rodman Flender

Director: Rodman Flender
Screenwriter: Terri Hughes, Ron Milbauer

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Sep 2, 2008

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  • The devil will find work for idle hands to do...but what happens when he chooses the laziest teen slacker in the world to do his dirty work? Anton Tobias (Devon Sawa, Wild America) is a channel-surfing, junk-food munching, couch potato burn-out who can't control the murderous impulses of his recently possessed hand. With the help of his zombiefied buddies, Mick (Seth Green, Austin Powers: The SpyWho Shagged Me) and Pnub (Elden Henson, The Mighty), Anton's got to stop the rampaging devil appendage before it takes total control of his life and ruins any chance he has with class hottie Molly (Jessica Alba, Never Been Kissed). Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day) and Jack Noseworthy (The Brady Bunch Movie) co-star in this wickedly funny horror comedy.
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    Too precariously straddles the line between fun and cheese, often going a bit too far over the top.

    Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
    04/08/09
    Michael Dequina
    Michael Dequina
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    Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
    10/18/08
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    Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
    08/07/08
    Mark Halverson
    Mark Halverson
    Sacramento News & Review

    Ganha pontos pelo perverso senso de humor, mas acaba soando demais como uma cópia de "Evil Dead 2" para merecer uma recomendação.

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    04/08/08
    Pablo Villaca
    Pablo Villaca
    Cinema em Cena

    Were you expecting a teen remake of The Hands of Orlac? Don't hold your breath.

    Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
    12/06/05
    Ron Wells
    Ron Wells
    Film Threat

    Maybe 90 seconds of viable and sustained humor at the end.

    Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
    07/21/05
    Jeff Millar
    Jeff Millar
    Houston Chronicle
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    It jumps from one path to the next without any sense of continuity.

    Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
    04/09/05
    Robin Clifford
    Robin Clifford
    Reeling Reviews

    Stupid, silly fun with a decent amount of gore and heavy dose of teen humor

    Full Review Source: Slasherpool | comment Comment
    06/19/04
    Andreas Samuelson
    Andreas Samuelson
    Slasherpool

    All of these people can make better movies than this, and most of them have.

    Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
    03/10/04
    Robert Roten
    Robert Roten
    Laramie Movie Scope

    Is it a spoof, or is it just stupid ... or is it a stupid spoof?

    Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
    05/20/03
    Jim Shelby
    Jim Shelby
    Palo Alto Weekly

    It's an infalliby funny gambit...

    Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | comment Comment
    12/02/02
    Kim Newman
    Kim Newman
    Sight and Sound

    The attempts to extract comedy from this grim raw material are leaden, blood-soaked disasters.

    Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | comment Comment
    10/15/02
    Margaret A. McGurk
    Margaret A. McGurk
    Cincinnati Enquirer

    Idle Hands may be the devil's playground, but empty minds are the venue for this time waster.

    Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
    03/24/02
    Boston Phoenix

    Its mixture of slapstick humour and gore -- produced by the flying fingers -- gives new meaning to the phrase digital effects.

    Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
    03/22/02
    Liam Lacey
    Liam Lacey
    Globe and Mail
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    When it's over, you may feel like cutting off your own hand for having paid good money at the ticket counter.

    Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
    02/27/01
    James Kendrick
    James Kendrick
    Q Network Film Desk

    A script filled with blunt dialogue on sex, drugs and violence that's neither funny nor particularly original.

    Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    E! Online

    If an original thought found its way into this horror-comedy it would die of loneliness.

    Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Bob Bloom
    Bob Bloom
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    When a movie sets out to be awful and achieves its goal, does that make it a success?

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Bob Graham
    Bob Graham
    San Francisco Chronicle
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    Funnier than it is scary, and not very funny at that.

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    Brian McTavish
    Brian McTavish
    Kansas City Star

    Performances are adequate, but mostly uninspired.

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