Run Ronnie Run (2002) User Reviews

Some very good spots, but not quite enough

[jbar19 · 7/10 · 16 December 2002]

Ronnie is a mullet headed redneck who lives in a trailer, drinks a lot of beer, raises hell and gets arrested. A failed infomercial pitchman sees Ronnie and decides to have him star in a new reality-based TV show where Ronnie goes from city to city, gets drunk and in trouble, and ultimately ends up getting arrested. It's like "Joe Dirt" meets "Cops".

The show becomes a big hit. Ronnie gets to mingle with the stars, buy a big house and finally nail the hot girl who is in his favorite beer advertisement.

Ronnie begins to feel the hallowness of his fame and then goes through the stereotypical soul searching that we've seen in a lot of movies.

This movie had some great, almost classic moments. And I was loving it, up until the last 20 minutes. It's another example of a movie that would have benefitted from a re-edit or two. The story just ran out of steam.

There are a boatload of very funny celebrity cameos, some uncredited. Also, there is an animation at the beginning of the movie which looks like a classic 1950's style "Please refrain from talking during the movie" cartoon, but it ends up being anything but. It looks like a Cricfalusi animation and it's pretty funny.

Look for the fake music video which also is very good.

Also, the ending credits have a few surprises including a great send up of Jackie Chan closing credits.

Supposedly, this movie failed to get a distributor. It is certainly strong enough to be released. I just wish they'd punch up the ending.

I give it a 6.5 to 7 out of 10. The team that made this movie is certainly talented. Be sure to check out the memorable quotes.

A Direct-To-Video Wasteland of Undermined Comic Talents

[jzappa · 6/10 · 10 October 2009]

A swamp of wasted comic ingenuity, Run Ronnie Run has about 10 minutes of clever, even hilarious parody to its name before being cleaned out of laughs. For the remainder of the time, this Sundance handout spun off from David Cross and Bob Odenkirk's hilarious HBO program Mr. Show With Bob and David, stumbles along, confusing with trendy and audacious all the infantile throwaways and pop culture references that it tediously stretches to frame its running time. Camouflaged behind a bulletproof mullet, Cross plays the Ronnie in question, a beer-gorging deadbeat hayseed who whiles away the hours wreaking havoc on his Georgia hometown. His exploits are caught on tape by a Cops-like reality show called Fuzz, and he's noticed by pathetic infomercial personality/inventor Terry Twillstein, played by an astute Bob Odenkirk, who sees Ronnie's popularity with lowbrow viewers. He promotes the idea to TV executives for a show in which he is arrested in a different city each week. The show becomes phenomenally successful, making Ronnie rich and famous, surprise surprise.

But while the text isn't up to Mr. Show's lofty benchmark, some big laughs do emerge, as when Hollywood stars beseech Ronnie to rob them, or when Ronnie's one semblance of soul-searching on death row involves his last meal: waffles, squarely nosing out corn dogs. Cross and Odenkirk, who ultimately disowned this movie, hardly reproduce a shred of the wit of any one of various sundry sketches from their show, but David Koechner has some time here to do his thing as an illiterate alcoholic redneck moron and Sarah Silverman Program regular Brian Posehn is one of the writers.

Ronnie's guilelessness is essentially a one-dimensional gag. Cross can be hilarious, but he's just more fitting when he's bald. Here his act is eclipsed by the innumerable celebrity cameos such as Jack Black, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, John and Rebecca Romijn Stamos, Ben Stiller, Jeff Goldblum, Mandy Patinkin, Kathy Griffin, etc., and episodes which don't follow at all from the premises, including one that reveals the "gay conspiracy" overseen by Patrick Warburton and forces them to give up their plot for world domination. It's completely non-sequitary in the film, and it's particularly memorable.

Funny in places and worth a look but not pure comedy gold

[james_norman1981 · 6/10 · 23 February 2006]

I watched this movie with a friend who described it as the funniest thing she'd ever seen. Naturally I approached it with some scepticism and was fairly underwhelmed considering her huge endorsement of it. That's not to say that Run Ronnie Run isn't funny. Like many low budget films of its sort it has some utterly hysterical moments: the malfunctioning blender for one, or Ronnie endeavouring to make his girlfriend Tammy jealous being another.

However, some of the jokes are overworked and some of the characters are more annoying than funny. For example: David Koechner (who you may recognise as Champ from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) as Clay manages to be both overworked and less than amusing as the narrator, his voice slow and dreary rather than comedic, and as the victim of Ronnie's more outlandish stunts. His 'It's not your fault...' line really isn't that funny the first time, let alone the third.

So this is a film that's worth seeing once or twice but probably wasn't worth a cinematic release. Certainly it's not something I'll be rushing out to buy any time soon, though after a few pints it's exactly the sort of movie to make you think 'Why not?'

They're smarter than this!

[belialprod · 6 May 2004]

Why on Earth would the guys who gave us one of the smartest "premise" based comedy shows on television choose such an easy target for their first film? New Line's tampering is not the reason the film isn't that great, guys. It's the idea to begin with. A parody of red necks? Ohhhhh, how cutting edge. THAT'S never been done before. The guys seem to have gone out of their way to play two really tired characters, in a tired situation (Reality TV) that we've seen parodied over and over again in other places and are now about as fresh and funny as a "Full House" rerun. This is a really sad loss 'cause I doubt it's likely anyone will poney up the money now to give these guys a second chance.

Also, the cameos. Great stuff with Jeff Goldblum, and Jack Black's bit is hysterical, but usually the famous people are just standing around without a single amusing thing to do ( Sarah Silverman and Gary Shandling immediately come to mind).

It all depends on your opinion of Mr. Show.

[nourenme84 · 7/10 · 4 November 2004]

This movie is generally funny, but I can't imagine someone who hasn't seen the Ronnie Dobbs skits on Mr. Show finding it as funny as someone who has. It has a lot of really funny moments. Lots of fresh white trash jokes, not the same old recycled trailer park jokes from before. You can't beat a vomit eating dog. Then again, there were a lot of forced jokes, a bit of trying too hard to make me laugh. For some reason there were more cameos than you can shake a stick at. But the real stars of the show are David Cross and Bob Odenkirk and their sense of humor. It doesn't really apply to a wide demographic, but people that have enjoyed Mr. Show and Cross' stand up will appreciate the sense of humor. I do wish they played more than two or three roles and involved more of their Mr. Show characters into the movie. It did have Three Times One Minus One, which is good. It had Jack Black, which is very very bad. If you liked Mr. Show, you'll love this movie. If not, you won't pick up on everything and the magic of Ronnie Dobbs. It's like the Mr. Bean movie in how you'll appreciate it more if you liked the show, but dislike the recycling of the same jokes from the show.

Canned.

[Hoodabaw · 6/10 · 11 January 2003]

According to Bob and David's official website, this film has been canned. they said themselves that it was never that funny to begin with and even after endless hours of editing they couldn't make it any better. I'd still love to see it, but maybe out of respect for Bob and David, and one of the greatest tv shows ever... Mr. Show.

Bizarrely Different

[mwendel · 6/10 · 1 November 2002]

This film feels like it was inspired by a freeway pile up of films like - Wayne's World, The Kentucky Fried Movie, Monty Python and Joe Dirt, to name a few.

Vulgar, crude and inane humor is what this movie is about. If you want something serious don't watch it. If you want something that is so incredible stupid its funny then watch this movie.

Although the movie consists of outward stupidity, if you analyze this movie its also a very clever parody and commentary on today's entertainment industry.

I throughly enjoyed this ridiculous film, but don't look for Oscar nominations.

David Cross and Bob Odenkirk can do better

[grantss · 4/10 · 15 September 2014]

David Cross and Bob Odenkirk can do better.

As actors, Cross and Odenkirk can easily do better than this movie. However, they also wrote the script for this, so are almost entirely to blame for its lameness.

Very silly movie. For whatever reason, aims to glorify stupid redneck antics. Maybe rednecks were the target audience...

Not all bad. There are some genuine laugh-out-loud moments. Anything that spoofed Hollywood and celebrity, their superficiality and vacuousness, was reasonably well done.

In keeping with this, Bob Odenkirk is the one to watch. David Cross' character is just plain irritating.

great offbeat comedy, well-executed

[mmwilde · 10/10 · 4 May 2004]

This is a great little comedy with fantastic bits of humor you have to pay attention to get. If you enjoy earning your fun, this is your idea of a good time. All of the actors are the sharpest on the comedy scene today, and all are nailing their bits to the wall. The movie has a nice little story, too. This should be on your shelf, next to "Guffman" and all that. Also, if you love a good cameo, this is for you. It's easier to say who DOESN'T make an appearance, which shows you just how much respect the people who made this movie garner from the comedy community. David and Bob are on fire, as usual, and all the "Mr. Show" supporting cast are on the money.

How did this go wrong?

[duandsku · 6/10 · 10 December 2003]

Ok, I'm a Mr. Show junky. I love the show to death; I have done so ever since their first season back in '95. They have taken sketch comedy to such joyous, conceptual heights that you would think anything they were involved in would be classic. When I heard they were making "Run Ronnie Run!", I read a quote from David Cross in Spin magazine. It was maybe February 2000, and David said, "If something like Deuce Bigalow can top the charts, then our movie has to be classic. There's about 5 times as many laughs as that so called comedy." Ok, I'm slightly paraphrasing, but he was snobbish about that comedy and thought his film had so many more jokes.

But, where are they? The jokes. The laughs. The Ronnie Dobbs sketches always seemed like the weakest ones on the show, and it always seemed like Bob and David had an affection for them (even as the audience didn't laugh). The main basis of the show was taken from a sketch from their pilot episode, and it was one of the least funny in the entire duration of the show. They were so unfunny, they actually had to cut an entire scene out, the only time they have ever done so on the show.

So, it didn't work as a sketch, so they made it into a movie. Conceptually, what an awful idea. The idea of "Cops" following anyone around is the most lame brained premise for a comedy, and the only inspired version I have seen of this idea in a DECADE is the Comedy Central gem, "Reno 911". They actually know all the "Cops-Sketch" clichés, and avoid them by making the scenarios absurd, beyond the bounds of its Cops-like premise. "Run Ronnie Run!", on the other hand, runs into every Cops cliché in the book, and the basis of most of the dramatic scenes are weighted back in sketches that were 5 years old when they started filming. It's also a shame as David is actually a very strong dramatic and comedic actor, but he is stuck in an unbelievable accent and an unlikable character, which is never a smart move for a full length feature. You need to sympathize with the main story line, at least a little, for it to work all the way through.

All of that being said, I'd like to say there are some very good jokes here. The biggest laugh in the entire thing is the infomercial Terry Twillstein is partaking in the first time we see him. Another bright spot is seeing Scott Thompson partaking in the secret gay conspiracy everyone knows he is a part of. A scene where a bunch of board members, including Sarah Silverman, Scott Foley, and Andy Richter, decide on the future of the Ronnie Dobbs show is a classic piece. However, the best sequence in the film is Ronnie seducing a Hollywood playgirl, one where the payoff is priceless. These are a few diamonds in the rough, though, as everything that corresponds to the main premise seems entirely disposable.

I could mention many jokes that do not work in the film, but the most inexplicable is the odd "Survivor" parody, which doesn't even seem to have a joke behind it. Since they started filming the movie long before "Survivor" ever aired, one has to suspect that this was a last minute effort to make the film seem more relevant and prescient in our culture. However, since there have been so many "Survivor" parodies already aired on so many shows, it just makes it seem lamer and tired. Also, it timestamps the movie from being from this era and will make it age very quickly.

One more note: Mr. Show fans should at least rent this film, as there is a hilarious video by Three Times One Minus One on it that rivals anything from Mr. Show. It's nice to see that they still have got it, at least in sketch format. And Bob Odenkirk has apparently made a brilliant film on his own (Melvin Goes To Dinner), which suggests they even have a future in movies. It's just unfortunate that it couldn't start here. 4/10

It sucked!

[bean_invaders · 3/10 · 5 October 2003]

I love Mr. Show. Love it!!!

With that said, Run Ronnie Run was a huge piece of crap. I truly felt like I had wasted my money after viewing it. There were literally only two times while viewing that I actually laughed. It reminded me of a horrible SNL movie, or perhaps of UHF starring Weird Al-- only not as funny. This movie was completely devoid of the comedic genius of Bob and David to which fans are accustomed. It was lame, boring, and painfully unfunny.

In short, this movie totally sucked and you should just save your dough and watch Mr. Show instead. The Season 3 DVD just came out and it's so much better than this trash that it can't even be compared.

Excellent Fun

[roofusdc · 10/10 · 24 February 2006]

I only caught a few episodes of Mr. Show, so my comments aren't from a fan. This movie works in a crazy way. Its not a series of sketches but a sustained meditation on fame and southern culture. It's not the greatest film ever made but there are a few things that make it rise above the mediocrity that's out there.

I can only imagine what this could've been if the studio hadn't ticked off Cross and Odenkirk. They pushed it straight to DVD. But its still a funny movie.

I was enjoying this movie and then I got to the cameo performance by Mandy Patinkin and was agog and just doubled over with laughter. Not only is the conceit funny as hell, its just so perfectly executed. You have to know Mandy Patinkin's work to realize how exceptionally well-crafted that bit is. Its really a stunning piece of comedy. And its not even central to the movie. *THAT'S* the level of comedy we're talking about here.

Just hysterical. There are a few other bits to enjoy. A fictional music video is pretty entertaining as is an opening cartoon homage that everyone will recognize.

Do yourself a favor and watch this movie.

You'll find plenty to enjoy.

Just misses the mark...

[Adam-184 · 7/10 · 18 December 2002]

As a film within the general comedy genre, "Run Ronnie Run" definitely rates highly enough. Unfortunately, this is the brainchild of two of the funniest comedians on the planet, David Cross and Bob Odenkirk. Given this, any true fan of these guys' work from Mr. Show or The Ben Stiller Show will be disappointed to find that it just doesn't push the envelope of wit, satire and brilliance that we have become accustomed to from Bob and David. Granted, I viewed the 1.5 hr version currently traded on KaZaa, so perhaps the studio's partly to blame for the film's lack of vision. But I am inclined to think that Bob and David mistakenly set out to turn their drunken white trash hick into a typical comedic hero, a la Adam Sandler, rather than concentrate on depicting the brutality and absurdity of American media. The reason that the Ronnie Dobbs skits on Mr. Show were so great was due to Ronnie's boorish and unlikable personality - he was an asshole! But in his full length feature film, he is portrayed as a rags-to-riches protagonist, a good guy at heart, meant to invoke sympathy and a connection with the audience. By neglecting the overall parody and mockery of reality TV and modern media trends and instead building character development, "Run Ronnie Run" fails in achieving the lashing satire and bitter criticisms of our society that runs so rampant within the Mr. Show sketches and David's new comedy album "Shut Up You F**king Baby!" But in the end, I still love them and appreciate the effort they made in attempting to bring their uniquely smart humor to the big screen (perhaps someday, it will get there).

Not worth the price of admission

[bassn99 · 3/10 · 23 July 2003]

I am an avid movie lover. I watch anything and everything from Comedies to Horror flicks. This was about the most useless movie I have seen in years. It is SO BAD it can't be funny even when you think it could be. Do yourself a favor and stay away from this stinker.

Amusing...but not the genius creation the show was

[supercygnus · 18 September 2003]

Not bad but...clearly either a case of too many cooks in the kitchen or massive studio interference marred what could have been a real blast of a comedy based on the cult favorite show MR. SHOW'S most enduring sketch.

After viewing the DVD's deleted scenes section is becomes very clear that a truly hilarious film does exist somewhere in there (including a much better ending, and a great rant by David Cross inspired by a similar one he did on the very first HBO episode of the t.v. show) but as it is the film is fun and occasionally very funny but often only passably amusing. Some inspired cameos, especially the one featured in the Broadway Musical rendition of Ronnie's life story which I will not spoil for you here, some nods to the stream of consciousness style of the show itself and of course all the familiar cast faces (Bob and David in particular) help elevate this endeavor, but as a long time fan who has seen every episode of the source of this movie, HBO's t.v. show "MR. SHOW", multiple times, I have to say the end result is a bit of a let down. Don't get me wrong, it's enjoyable, but it's hard not to wish another cut could be made that includes more of the cut material. That along with cutting a bit of David Koechner's part (and he is pretty funny here, like he usually is, but less would be more in this case), or maybe losing his narration altogether, would really put this flick up where it should be. A mistake early on in the general concept of the movie was made when Ronnie was made more likable than his television version. The film suffers a bit from sentimentality as a result and loses a lot of the MR. SHOW bite. This new sentiment could have still worked, however, if the cuts to Koechner's character and the reinsertion of the deleted scenes (including even more that's featured in the trailer but aren't even in the deleted scene section) could have been made. Seeing how neither is even remotely likely, I'll just have to go on wishing, and enjoy the picture for what it is, a flawed attempt that is still a must see for fans. Here's to some alternate cut turning up one day, grainy and edgy...which is really the way MR. SHOW is meant to be anyway!

Kind of like an inside joke.

[bludvlkg · 7/10 · 14 March 2003]

I can understand if this movie never gets released in theaters, but there's a reason. If you are a fan of Mr. Show in general, or specifically the Ronnie Dobbs skits (including the bonus material included in the recent DVD release of Mr. Show), then this movie is great. In typical Mr. Show style, the movie will jump around, sometimes to a seemingly unrelated tangent (which typically ties itself back into the movie at some point. It is hilarious at times, stupid at others, but in a good way, and always fun. Getting about 30 true celebrities to appear in cameos doesn't hurt either.

Bob and Dave, thanks for staying loyal to your fans!

Will mostly appeal to "Mr.Show"fans

[KUAlum26 · 6/10 · 2 November 2006]

Almost four years after HBO unceremoniously stopped running "Mr.Show with Bob and David",many of the producers,cast and crew of the show came together to make a feature-length movie about arguably one of the more memorable characters created on it:Indominable shirt-less redneck ne'er-do-well Ronnie Dobbs(David Cross,in one of the best showcases of his talent). This effort is a treat to those who enjoyed the show and/or the character,but I imagine the appeal is fairly limited.

This film is sort of a Rags-to-riches story,telling of just how Ronwell Dobbs went from ordinary,below-average intelligence hoodlum from rural Georgia who has a penchant for getting in trouble with the law,to a national and international celebrity and anti-hero,due much in part of the grooming of prissy,disgraced English film producer and failed inventor Terry Twillstein(Bob Odenkirk,who doesn't seem to get employed enough for my money). Terry gets his chance to groom Ronnie when the local sheriff in Ronnie's home-state(M.C.Gainey)makes a deal with Terry to take Ronnie off his hands. From there,Ronnie goes about finding creative new(and old)ways to get arrested in every state in the nation and many cities of many countries around the world. He,naturally becomes hugely rich and,as wealth is often to do to people,makes Ronnie an even bigger irresponsible ass than before.

Chock-full of cameos,ranging from former "Mr.Show" cast members such as Mary Lynn Rajskub(as herself),Sarah Silverman and Brian Posehn to non-show affiliates such as Jeff Goldblum,Matt Stone,Trey Parker,Scott Thompson,Mandy Patinkin,Jeff Garlin,Dave Foley,Andy Richter and Garry Shandling,this film is funny and loose,but it seems to be sort of an odd fit for the material it's presenting. Anyone familiar with "Mr.Show"knows that the sketches and characters had no end and merely blended into the next segment,simply to wrap around and come back to the host segment,whereas this movie has to flesh out a story that initially had one,maybe two segments of about seven minutes in length and make it into a full 90 min. film. It works just well enough as is,but it does kinda feel like writers Odenkirk and Cross and director Troy Miller were getting bored with the story and wanted to create a quick resolution to it. Granted,this show works no worse than just about any SNL sketch that got green-lighted in the past(Night at the Roxbury,anyone?),but having been a fan of the original show,I suppose I expected more.

As it is,it's a great showcase(as said earlier)for Cross and a tantalizingly sharp skewering of current television standards and what makes a celebrity in this culture.

BlakeSpot Reviews: Run Ronnie Run

[TimeForChillie · 6/10 · 28 July 2006]

Run Ronnie Run, 2002 6/10, 28th best movie of 2002, 162nd best of the 2000's, 429th all time Mr. Show with Bob and Dave is one of my favorite shows. Run Ronnie Run was created by the makers of Mr. Show with Bob and Dave and actually based on one of the first scetches ever seen on that show. However, Run Ronnie Run is not one of my favorite movies of all time. What I saw here was exactlly what I saw when I watched Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. What works extremely well as a 30 minute scetch comedy show doesn't work nearly as well as a 90 minute film. That's not to say the movie isn't enjoyable. There's some good laughs, and its really a fairly interesting plot. I liked the movie well enough, but overall I was expecting much better.

So much potential...

[d-scum · 1/10 · 9 May 2003]

...but it falls flat. Granted there are at least a half dozen cuts of this movie and I have only seen Troy Miller and the Studio cut of it. That being said it is so bad. It's the same joke for 90 minutes with a few nuggets of comedic gold, they are few and far between and don't save the movie as a whole.

After cutting it and shelving it for the last 2 and a half years apparently New Line is planning to try and cash in on the release of Mr. Show Season 3 DVD in August. The release date for the RRR DVD is 9/16/03 and it will most likely be the Studio Cut I have seen with very few extras. If your a fan of low-brow, dumb dumb, stupid movies you might like. However; fans or Mr. Show and Bob and David's previous work will be left extremely disappointed.

Even Bob and David themselves are completly embarassed about the way this movie turned out. They asked the studio to not release it and begged fans to stop asking about it, so New Line decided to do the opposite. I sincerly hope that first time viewers will not think this is the apex of Bob and David's talents as comedic artists because it simply isn't.

That being said while the script and jokes tend to fall flat the performances are actually pretty decent. Bob's Terry and David's Ronnie definately have excellent and David Koechner's Clay as the narrator and Ronnie's friend steals almost every scene he is in and leads to probably the best running joke of the movie.

I can't emphasize enough that this movie is not a Mr. Show fan friendly movie. Watch it only as a goof and don't expect too much in the way of laughs. I'll give it ** out of ***** mainly due to Koechner, Cross and Odenkirk's performance.

Fat Kid Kicks Ass!

[bigfella2k1 · 8/10 · 10 October 2003]

O.K, true, this isn't quite up to the quality level of Mr. Show, but it is redeemed by several hilarious scenes: namely, the "Survivor" parody, the Jack Black musical number with an animated squirrel, and of course, the "Fat Kid Kicks Ass" sequence. Holy Shamoly, that has got to be the funniest fight scene in a movie ever.

Worth a rental, at the very least.

White Trash Humor!

[katie121079 · 7/10 · 11 February 2004]

Hilarious! The excuses he makes when he is being chased by the cops are priceless! His mullet: perfect! Its a fun movie! The characters are classically 80s white trash. The other reality series depicted in the movie takes a strange twist. You will have to watch it to find out.

Major Disappointment

[ElvisKnievel · 2/10 · 17 December 2003]

I remember seeing "Joe Dirt" and thinking that it was pretty good, but that it could have been a much better movie with just a little bit of effort. When I heard about this movie I had hoped that somebody might have figured that out and made a funny movie about the trailer park/NASCAR/mullet lifestyle. Unfortunately this movie doesn't even measure up to "Joe Dirt". It's not that the acting is bad, there just aren't many jokes, and the many easy targets for laughs aren't even explored. It was very difficult to watch the whole thing, but I managed it by watching the last half during the commercials of a television program.

Brilliant! The funniest comedy since Dumb & Dumber!

[Anonymous_Maxine · 9/10 · 6 May 2002]

Run, Ronnie, Run is a comedy with the rare distinction of having an excellently written script, especially since it was meant to sound dumb. Ronnie Dobbs is your typical beer guzzling redneck who can't seem to avoid getting himself arrested, and who always seems to have his elaborate arrests caught on film and broadcast on television.

Some dumb guy is discovered through his unenviable skill of getting embarrassingly arrested, has a TV show created around his arrests, and becomes an instant star. Clearly, this is not Oscar material. In fact, a plot outline like that leads you to believe that it will be just another bonehead comedy in the moronic tradition of American Pie and Road Trip and Big Momma's House. However, Run, Ronnie, Run proves to be much more than any of those movies.

Not only is it packed full of sidesplitting comedy, it is also presented in numerous unique ways. The film opens with an introduction by an elderly man whose vulgar speech prepares the audience for the sheer hilarity that is to follow. The rest of the movie is sparsely narrated by Clay, one of Ronnie's accident-prone friends who is the funniest redneck I've seen in a movie in years, besides Ronnie himself. David Cross delivers a hilarious performance in this film, and hopefully this movie will allow people to forgive him for his part in the pathetic Scary Movie 2.

As is necessary in a comedy like this, the dialogue is full of great comedy, but the thing that makes this movie unique is that it is not only hilarious but it's very well written. There are lots of very simple but very effective speech gags, like Ronnie's dim-witted comment to a police officer who was being excessively angry with a young kid (who happened to be the officer's son), as well as his charming response to his stripper girlfriend (one of the many products of his instant fame) when her very presence doesn't manage to create the response that he hopes for in his ex. And by the way, it's just not the same to read all this in a review, you have to see this stuff for yourself. Not only is it more effective to see it all for yourself, but there is so much uproarious comedy in this movie that it is impossible to list it all in one review.

Every character in this film is significant and well presented, and the movie never gets boring or slow. There are a couple of things that could have been left out, such as the Mary Poppins spoof about giving your woman a good old kick in the c*nt, as well as the eventual fate of Clay, but even this childish and sometimes crude and grotesque humor is not enough to bring down the movie as a whole. This is a great comedy in the tradition of Dumb & Dumber, although I can't say that the movie actually manages to pass that one up as far as sheer quality.

Even though there were a few things that were a little excessive or did not need to be in the movie, Run, Ronnie, Run is still a tremendously amusing and entertaining film. Every character in the film will have you cheering, and there is even one noteworthy scene where the town Mayor's fat, video game addicted son gets p***ed off and does something that will make every jaw in the audience drop. That's one of the best scenes in the film, and the irony is one of the things that made it such a good scene. I assure you that I am not exaggerating when I say that this is one of the best comedies to come along in years. It is so rare to see a comedy that is driven by the mishaps and misfortune of the uneducated (and inbred?) that is able to overcome the simplicity of its content and come off as such a fulfilling and entertaining comedy. Definitely do not miss this one.

Whhhat?????

[gcoffaro2000 · 7/10 · 12 April 2005]

While not the best movie ever(The God of Cookery gets that lofty title), any Mr. Show fan MUST love it. While the humor may not be blatant enough, any true comedy fan knows the funny is in the details. If I had a dime for every idiot who thinks funny equals poo-poo and farts, I could make a crazy dime kingdom. And from this dime kingdom I would declare all those without a well developed sense of humor terrorists, and you know what we think of terrorists. Oh yeah, to everyone who did not like this, you are the reason The Pacifier made so much money. Shame, shame! P.s. Who the fusk lists their I.Q. in a movie review? You pompous bastards. smooches...Watch The God of cookery if you don't love it you have no soul.

I'm a Mr. Show fan, and this definitely sucks

[zetes · 3/10 · 5 August 2007]

This film is based on characters from the mid-to-late '90s HBO sketch comedy show Mr. Show, which starred Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Mr. Show, which I just rewatched in its entirety in the past couple of weeks, has a reputation as being one of the best sketch comedy shows ever. Personally, I wouldn't rank it anywhere near as high as many others. It was far more hit-and-miss than its fans like to believe. For every great sketch, you'd have to suffer through at least one completely lame sketch. That said, when the show did hit upon something good, it was truly memorable. And the Ronnie Dobbs sketches, of which there were two in the show's 30 episode run, are definitely a couple of the best they did. This movie basically retells the Ronnie Dobbs sketches over 90 minutes. And, as Saturday Night Live has proved again and again, what works in 5 minute segments doesn't stretch out well to 90 minutes. But even most of SNL's movies surpass this one (although not It's Pat!). This movie is incredibly unfunny. The only thing that works – kind of – are a couple of the songs that pop up occasionally. The only other Mr. Show characters that appear in the film are the members of R&B group 3 x 1 – 1, and that little music video they do was one of the few tolerable things in the movie. Jack Black, who appeared in several episodes of Mr. Show, gets a funny little non-sequitur song that's supposed to have been cut from a Mary Poppins-like movie. And the fat kid action sequence was slightly amusing. The only performer who is consistently entertaining is SNL's David Koechner, who, IMO, is one of the most underrated of SNL performers. Other than that, the film is terrible. Even Bob & David have disowned it, so I would suggest that even fans of the show should just ignore its existence.