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Saving Silverman (2001)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:2
Rotten:30
Average Rating:2.6/10
Consensus: Dragged down by a plot lacking any sense of logic and obnoxious, unsympathetic characters, this comedy is more crude and mean-spirited than funny.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual humor, lauguage, thematic material
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Feb 9, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $18,968,154
Synopsis: Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs, AMERICAN PIE) and his pals Wayne (Steve Zahn) and J.D. (Jack Black) are close friends since high school who perform together in a Neil Diamond cover band. Enter... Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs, AMERICAN PIE) and his pals Wayne (Steve Zahn) and J.D. (Jack Black) are close friends since high school who perform together in a Neil Diamond cover band. Enter Darren's shrewd psychologist bride-to-be Judith (Amanda Peet, THE WHOLE NINE YARDS), who constantly schemes to keep Darren from hanging out with his old slacker buddies. Anxious to hold onto their right to spend time with Darren, Wayne and J.D. decide that they must stop at nothing to prevent the wedding from taking place and reunite Darren with his first love--who is about to become a nun! Dennis Dugan's (HAPPY GILMORE) comedy attempts to harness the white-hot comedic talents of Zahn and Black, throwing in an inspirational appearance from Neil Diamond himself, to tell a hilarious tale of undying friendship. [More]
Starring: Jason Biggs, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, Amanda Peet
Starring: Jason Biggs, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, Amanda Peet, Amanda Detmer, Neil Diamond
Director: Dennis Dugan
Director: Dennis Dugan
Screenwriter: Hank Nelken, Greg DePaul
Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Brad Luff
Studio: Columbia Pictures
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Nov 4, 2008
Reviews for Saving Silverman
This full-throttle sophomoric comedy still feels forced and phony at times, which undercuts the manic efforts of its cast.
Despite an early, zesty deluge of gags ... it soon settles down to an anxious man-a-thon.
Expends a moderate budget and several attractive young performers to absolutely no consequence.
The movie can barely muster the bravery to be even Dude, Where's My Car stoopid.
There is nothing in the personalities of J.D., Wayne or Darren that makes me believe that they don't deserve to be slapped upside their heads for being pathetic losers.
If Judith ... were asked to render a diagnosis of what's wrong with Saving Silverman, she might note that it displays a pathological fear and hatred of women.
Someone ought to call the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Actors.
Maybe they actually had fun doing this film, but if so, this feeling is likely to be contagious only to those who like their movies relentlessly mindless.
You'd have to go back to November to Little Nicky to find a movie that approaches this for dreckiness.
In one rotten production ... all involved have managed to create the most unlikable, man hating, woman hating, unfunny idiots since Whipped.
Even 12-year-old girls will see it as the defensive and moronic excuse for a comedy about modern sexual politics that it is.
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