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It's a hilarious homage to the sixties/early seventies sexploitation pictures and Playboy philosophy, and despite the copious nudity and many references to sex, it's strangely one of the most innocent films I've seen in a long time.
Shrek 1 & 2, as with all Dreamworks animation, are bent on bombarding the audience with modern pop culture references ad nauseum -- partially because the creators believe such recycling is humorous, but also I suspect because they understand, smartly, that modern audiences desperately sop up pop references as a means of affirming their own image of themselves.
Multiple references to the film's source, Henry Miller's eponymous novel, don't help much.
This is the first movie i have seen that references the job the dogs and dog handlers did in Vietnam.
This almost-psychedelic mix-version of Cinderella and The Sound of Music are funny and with a lot of references at the actual situation of life in Argentina (ALL the people, including The Rich and The Poor, Bads and Good Guys, are capable of any thing for a couple of Euros, including sleep on the floor and shine shoes).
Yes there were some 'pseudo-gay' references in some scenes which could have been handled differently (director Jack Sholder to this date still denies any intentional use of homo-erotic references).
And when we were all teenagers we all had those teenage-sexual confused period/phases in our lives and maybe these references in the movie were only done to better capture whats going on in the mind of the life of a male teenager in Springwood, Ohio in 1985.
There are also a lot of references to American Graffiti in Indy 4, by the way.
I will not mention them here, but it is obvious that you can draw references to other projects by Lucas - even to the computer game Maniac Mansion which also portrays a lot of young people who are quite similar to the characters of American Graffiti.
Those of you out there who have actually read Lovecraft will hear mention of Azathoth, the Old Ones, and seemingly blatant references to the Necronomicon.
The focus is on romantic comedy, and admittedly spotting the references to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Meet the Parents and When Harry Met Sally is occasionally fun, the latter was one of the better gags as well as the stunt on the motorcycle, but the scenes where they featured in were in general very overplayed.
No control device is ever shown, though many references are made to the incredible amounts of technology which the student-bad-guys are using.
Just like the U.K. version had its pop references so did this one.
Good details, as the nice landscapes in Cadiz and the references to Caco's relative "exiled" in the Spanish cities of North Africa.
Great early 70's clothing, a philosophizing folk song (wow, man, it's like, so deep), unspoken drug references, and the undead!
National references and debates of explicitness aside, this film has some very interesting uses of photography.
Or more importantly, was still a 14-year-old boy who could delight in laughing through a cupped hand at the hardcore sexual references.
The constant references to other films might be a distraction if they didn't remind you of how much better they are than this one.
I liked the movie, there are some really great jokes and 8 mile references but i think that it could have really been even better.
On the other hand, quite a bit of the GO TO THE MOVIES humor is pitched to an audience old enough to recognize references to Ingmar and Ingrid Bergman.
No references to Amity or their mother or father .
Whilst there are some intelligent references towards the relationship between the former East and West regions of Germany, the film as a whole drags on far too long in what seems a never ending, repetitive cycle of tiresome and boring events.
However, when all is said and done Petzold's "Yella" is a film full of irrelevant references pinned under the title of "artistic licence", it would be better suited to a total running time of 30 minutes, rather than forcing the viewer to endure 86 minutes worth of scenes depicting the supposed ideals of the capitalist West.
Dribbled with strained references to the original series and delivered with the verve of a George W. Bush speech on international trade agreements.
The setting is perfect, with no historic or geographic references, only an estranged building, which doesn't have a single straight normal tenant.
In a visual style reminiscent to "Snatch" and cultural references similar to "Pulp Fiction", Mexico does an attempt at making a neo-noir smash hit comedy.
It references other movies (Meet the Parents, When Harry met Sally etc.) but doesn't really spoof them.
You'd think we were in church with all the references to Jesus.
The episode references to some past and future Looney Tunes jokes and makes new jokes with an original style.
I saw a couple references to additional information in the book form, but as for the movie what I got was not that Tideman/Owens CAUSED the event but rather that once the chain of events was initiated he was obligated to made sure that Laskey got on the ship at exactly the right time.
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