Dick

Pros: Tells a little about the Watergate and Nixon saga.
Cons: Very moronic. Teenage stupidity involved. Just not funny.

I really had myself worked up for this movie when my husband and I rented it. I thought it was going to be the coolest thing since bubble gum. Oh my goodness, was I ever mistaken! Like, totally, yeah, that's it, for sure man!

Think...

Pros: It's watchable.
Cons: the jokes and overall premise are very specific and don't work on a general audience.

"Dick" is not a film meant for the theaters. It's not that it's super raunchy or in bad taste or the like, it's just a made-for-television movie that somehow got promoted to feature film status. You can practically hear the Hollywood suits glancing over ...

Pros: Silly and goofy 70s fun
Cons: Like a long SNL sketch

If you're dying to know who Watergate's "Deep Throat" is, well, the comedy Dick has an answer for you: two giggly high school girls. The two girls, Betsy and Arlene (played by Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams, respectively) sort of stumble...

Pros: All the "little things"
Cons: Gets juvenile in places

OK, I can use this title at least until they decide to produce a movie from the Fox Comedy.

Introduction – Satire?

Last week I viewed Dick, a “Political Satire” recommended by many writers who I trust, so I added in to...

Pros: amusing plot convolutions
Cons: not hilariously funny

In honor of the upcoming election, I am watching and reviewing a politically themed movie each week. Having seen All The President's Men and Nixon, this week I chose to watch Dick, a humorous look at the downfall of President...

Pros: Dan Hedaya
Cons: Betsy and Arlene

First off, I wasn't very thrilled to be watching the movie to begin with. I was at the video store with a friend who just wanted to see it so bad. I checked it out, trying to hide my disappointment. I had no idea what the movie would be about, all I...

Pros: great acting, subtle humor, fabulous soundtrack
Cons: you'll need to know your Watergate history to get the full effect

If we buy into this movie's theory (and we're not supposed to), it would appear that Deep Throat was my little sister's best friends.

Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams play 15-year-old airheads, Betsy and Arlene, who inadvertently interrupt...

Pros: Billiant satire, great script writing, excellent timing, captures the spirit of the Watergate years
Cons: could be a challenge for people who don't like satire or are unfamiliar with Watergate

Unless you've grown nostalgically fond of Richard Nixon the past few years, you'll enjoy the satirical Dick. It'll help if you experienced the Watergate years personally, and have seen All the President's Men, but the film can stand on its...

Pros: Great Casting and tons of laughs
Cons: Not historically accurate

Once again I went on a movie renting binge and got lucky. I had read just a little about the movie Dick but was intrigued and I generally like satire. Its not the sharp edged satire I thought it might be but it is a downright funny, twisted look at the...

Pros: Zany satire, nice '70s sound track.
Cons: Occasionally gets too silly.

Dick is a funny, likable sendup of Tricky Dick and the Watergate crowd. It's basically a combination of Clueless and All the President's Men, with perhaps a bit of Forrest Gump and Buffy the Vampire Slayer thrown...

Pros: Acting, script, direction
Cons: I lied. This movie is worse than disembowelment.

Since this is a family oriented site, I will dispense with any obvious references to the title and get to the MEAT of this film. It BLOWS. You would have to be NUTS to see this picture. I don’t want to be too HARD on this movie, but lest anyone accuse...

Pros: Some creative and funny moments
Cons: Very, very DUMB

I’ve seen reviews on both sides of the spectrum for Dick. There are the glowing, "This is the satire of the year" reviews (and Roger Ebert subscribed to that philosophy) and there are the detractory, "Really, really bad," reviews. I...

Pros: Dan Hedaya is even funnier than the real-life Nixon
Cons: What could have been a great political satire descends to the SNL depths

Finally, a movie about the funniest chapter in American history: Watergate.

Huh? Watergate?

Did Tricky Dick and all the President’s men really need any help in making their own comedy of errors even more farcical? I tend to think...

Pros: Hedaya's portrayal of Nixon stoned
Cons: Everything else

This is going to be brief. Thank goodness you say! I sat through this movie, thinking a little political satire would be good for my soul. It was really not all that funny. Dan Hedaya's portrayal of Nixon was the only bright spot. When HE did Tricky...

Pros: Thirty minutes of this film are utterly hilarious
Cons: The rest isn't; this could have been more

One thing I've got to give to this movie is that it unites so many of the B-grade comedians that have existed on TV and in movies in the 1990s that the cast list reads like a virtual who's who of young comedians working today. In bit parts are character...