Kingpin

Pros: Bill Murray ad libs his role; one of the funniest characters he's ever portrayed.
Cons: Some corny jokes, some silly sight gags, some pretty low and dirty humor.

Here's a DVD that you'll want to put of your gift-giving list.

This is a lowlife, on-the-road, buddy-movie comedy featuring Sports, Satire and Slapstick. Kingpin is a humorous "escape from reality" movie that most any guy will like....

Pros: some funny moments
Cons: A lot of really stupid moments; extremely predictable and cliche screenplay.

There isn't much to a comedy like this, it recycles every comedy formula: 1) the underdog versus the world, 2) the idiots in the real world, 3) the bombshell, 4) the road trip, 5) the monetary deadline, 6) and the villain. “Kingpin” stars Woody ...

Pros: Humor, performances, good story
Cons: gross jokes might put off many

Long before they made people laugh with sperm used as hair gel in There's Something About Mary, or the underlying messages within Shallow Hal and Stuck On You, or the sentimental sweetness of Fever Pitch, was an underrated movie called Kingpin. For it's ...

Pros: Lots of silly, goofy gags, and the cast is excellent.
Cons: Some people don't like Farrelly Brothers gross out humor.

I'm ashamed to say it, but I love this movie. Yes, I LOVE this movie. I can be in the worst mood in the word, but if I put in my "Kingpin" DVD, the crude humor and ridiculous premise never fail to crack me up. There are certain bits, like Roy ...

Pros: LMAO
Cons: Ehhh.... it fulfilled its purpose. Maybe a bit more character development, but nobody's perfect.

Pound for pound, "Kingpin" is a joy to watch. Briefly, it is a redemption tale of a bowler who falls from grace. Bill Murray is slimy and repulsive as the hustler who causes that fall, clear up to the end (*Oh, the COMB-overs in this...

Pros: Great cast, stomach-churningly sick comedy and (surprisingly) something of a message there too.
Cons: Maybe a touch overlong but that really is nit-picking.

The Farrelly Brothers score a definate strike with Kingpin, their best movie to date.

When Ten-Pin Bowling prodigy Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) wins the 1979 Odour-Eaters Championship the future looks bright indeed. But after an ecounter with...

Pros: Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid
Cons: Not meant for children of any age

The movies starts off in Ocelot, Iowa in 1969 and a little boy named Ray Munson jumps a fence and busts his butt to get to his father to play a game of ghetto bowling before supper. His daddy tells him he would be great when he grows up and it reminded ...

Pros: Sick, funny and sweet . . . just like my vomit
Cons: a touch too long, extras are not worthwhile

When doing comedy, one must create a delicate balance. All of the editing techniques a director could ever learn will not make a film work if the actors involved do not possess chemistry or timing. The larger the cast, the more difficult...

Pros: The GORGEOUS Vanessa Angel. (Marry me, Vanessa)!
Cons: None.

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...

Pros: The cast.
Cons: Everything else.

To this day I don't really get why everyone loves the Farrelly brothers' movies. Just because something is gross doesn't necessarily make it funny. DUMB AND DUMBER is a prime example. The fact that everyone was laughing around me was quite disconcerting....

Pros: Laughter
Cons: the landlord

Woody is great in this movie. Playing an ex bowler who had got his han chopped off in a bowling acciedent. He was forced to wear a rubber hand. This movie had so much comedy I couldn't stop laughing. I think the funniest parts are when he went to...

Pros: Bill Murray absolutely hilarious
Cons: Oh, it's a dumb movie

Inane. Vulgar. Cheap. And very funny. Those are my main impressions on Kingpin, the comedy that turns the pathetic, bloated world of bowling upside down. How do I know bowling is bloated and pathetic? Because it’s the only sport I’m good at. And it’s...

Pros: enough laughs to last years
Cons: hard to find

This was a movie that died in the theaters and with the critics but I rented it once on a recommendation. You have to buy it and watch it 20 times to get all the jokes this is funny. Something about Mary was a dissapointment after watching this. Do not...

Pros: None.
Cons: Disgusting, immoral, trash

Kingpin was one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. I don't know how anyone could think it was funny, or even humorous! The characters are all obnoxious and sex-crazed, and it is just one example of the decay of American values and culture.

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Pros: Funny movie, good cast and acting.
Cons: Not the best movie I've ever seen

Kingpin wasn’t as funny as I thought it would be, but it was still a good movie. Roy Munson is an up and coming pro bowler when tragedy strikes (no pun intended). His bowling career and his hand are both gone. Roy spends the next 17 years is a crappy...