You know I love bowling. I really, really love it. And so naturally a movie about ten-pin bowling would interest me a great deal. I was not dissapointed at all. This is one of the best movies I have ever seen.
What made it a winner was the great blend of actors. I have always liked Woody Harrelson ever since I watched him as the stupidest bartender in the world, Woody in Cheers. His serious movies are good but I always feel that he is best suited to comedic roles.
This is his best. In the movie he plays Roy Munson, a championship bowler in his early days until his hand was chopped off for beating some criminals in a game of ten-pin bowling. Since then his life goes downhill and he's an middle-aged, balding man who's living in a ses-pit of an apartment.
He discovers a great bowler in the shape of an Amesh farmer called Ishmael and tries to convince him to go to a major bowling tournament. Along the way they come across a woman played by the absolutely stunning Vanessa Angel.
Angel is really the correct term to describe this woman. She is so beautiful that even if you don't like the movie, you'd watch it anyway just to get a glimpse of Angel. This movie is hilarious and has an unexpected ending.
There are some classic scenes in this that I will never forget, such as Vanessa Angel's nipples standing erect after going to an ice-cold fridge. And then Ishmael's doing the exact same thing. Randy Quaid plays the role of an Amesh man very, very well.
But again, Bill Murray is fabulous in his cameo role as an evil bowler who competes against Harrelson. The story-line is original and has an ending very unexpected for American movies, but is still very entertaining.
I love comedies that don't take themselves too seriously and this is perfect. There is very rarely a scene where seriousness takes over. This movie is great and if you don't laugh at this, you have something very wrong with you.
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