dizarray Reviews

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

The funniest movie ever

[13 January 2004]

OK, maybe I exaggerate, but this movie comes close. Bizarre sense of humor, which is right up my alley. Some movies may try to push the envelope, but this one shreds it, with waaaayy over-the-top scenes (like the hour spent in town that starts out innocently enough with a little weed and eventually descends to twitching on the floor in a corner of a shabby room with a needle hanging out of your arm). The actors deliver it dead-pan but don't take a second of it seriously. No one will ever duplicate this quirky gem. Can't recommend it highly enough. (However, if you're a homophobe, there is one shockingly explicit scene that may have you wanting to go scrub your eyeballs. I am not, but was still rather stunned by its explicitness.)

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

Funny, sobering look at intolerance of homosexuality

[29 October 2001]

I happened to catch the last 3/4 of this movie on Cinemax early this morning, and found it absorbing and thoroughly enjoyable. I liked the relationship that developed between Megan (Natasha Lyonne) and Graham (Clea DuVall) - especially that Megan turned out to be the braver of the two, when it was Graham who at first seemed so tough. It was half-funny, half-sobering, to see this place, True Directions, where the object was to make young people fit into plastic molds - basically, to crush their spirits. They were rewarded for lying about who they were, for playing their parts, and punished when any hint of their true nature was visible on the surface. It's a satisfying love story as well as an over-the-top comedy, but has a dark, underlying truth that reminded me vaguely of "A Clockwork Orange."

Perfect Fit (2000)

Can't recommend highly enough!

[16 April 2001]

I am a fan of Maria Ford and the creator of the Maria Ford Home Page. Most of Maria's early movies are simple T&A flicks in which she played strippers and/or hookers and more often than not got bumped off. "The Perfect Fit" is a departure in many ways. It has substance. It has a plot. It is quirky. It is imaginative. And Maria, in it, is flawless. Her character, Perry, is a delightfully self-absorbed, pampered, twisted, un-apologetic, aggressive woman used to getting whatever she wants, whatever the cost. She is dominating. She is sarcastic. She has a past, which none of Maria's other roles have really given her. I even love that in it, she EATS. In what other movie is the beautiful, sexy lead allowed to have a healthy appetite?

Terrified (1995)

Probably wouldn't recommend

[16 April 2001]

I happened to catch this over the weekend, and was bewildered the entire time. This is an odd movie, rather slow-paced, and through most of it you're scratching your head, going "Huh?" However, Heather Graham does give her character, Olive, depth and believability.