The Dream Team with Michael Keaton and Peter Boyle. Silly script, great performances.
V. I. Warshowski with Kathleen Turner on the last fumes of her babe-a-liciousness. The dozens of people who actually saw this movie really, really enjoyed it.
The Mystery Men with Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo and Bill Macy. Helps to be a comics fan, I suppose, but there were just so many brilliant lines of throwaway dialogue, and Greg Kinnear as Captain Metropolis, whom the actor describeed as “Like a really highly-paid athlete who’s had a really bad year.” And Geoffrey Rush as Casanova Frankenstein! I love this movie!
They Live is a subversive masterpiece with a gratuitous 10-minute wrestling scene thrown in the middle. I was the only person in the theater when I saw it back in the day.
Once, when watching It’s A Mad, Mad, etc. World, I was shocked to find that the channel had given it only a two-star rating. So, based on that, I have to nominate this as my favorite two-star movie.
Another vote for Tremors. I don’t get why more people don’t consider this a masterpiece.
Another vote for Joe vs. the Volcano. Yes, it’s silly at times, and not every scene works, but it takes chances, and the end result is something endearing.
I’ll add What About Bob?, with Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Am I the only one who thinks this movie is hilarious?
Quigley Down Under is kind of a family favorite. As modern Westerns go, it’s not half bad.
You just called Star Wars a 2-star movie? Seriously, what critics do you listen to? Even if you don’t think it’s a classic, there’s no publication on earth that’d pretend it wasn’t universally praised in it’s day.
I have the opposite beef with Little Nicky, it’s almost universaly panned. No way any TV listing pegs it above 1/2-star.
One that I happen to be watching right now is The Peacemaker. It has it’s :rolleyes: moments, and Kidman is doing an awful job of hiding her accent, but Clooney has his fastball and it’s got some pretty exciting action sequences and an adequate plot.
The Rock might get a little better than 2-star rating I suppose, but plenty of people bash it. Whatever, I can never turn it off.
The king of these movies for me is Eurotrip. I LOVE this movie and never get tired of the Matt Damon cameo. Some genuinely funnt moments, quality T&A and a solid soundtrack.
I think Kaylasdad was trying to be funny, attempting to play on the title phrase. You see, Star Wars is one “star movie”, while Star trek is another “star movie”. One star movie plus one star movie makes two star movies. Something like that…
I’ll second The Man with Two Brains, Rat Race and Baseketball. I’m also a fan of Super Troopers.
For me, the main one is Nothing but Trouble with Chevy Chase and Demi Moore. I’ve heard a few people on this board say they saw the movie and didn’t like it at all, but everyone in my family loves it. It’s so absurd, and it’s got a lot of great one-liners.
Up The Creek - Animal House meets Porky’s at a college rafting race. Sounds stupid, and it is, but Tim Matheson has some of the greatest lines, and everybody seems to be having fun. Lots of eye-candy, too.
Water - Michael Caine on a Caribbean island. Concert For Cascara. Not to mention Billy Conolly as the Rhyming Revolutionary. What’s not to like?
Except it’s…
“Don’t overlook my butt. I work out all the time. Reaping burns a lot of calories…”
And that’s one of mine – William Sadler was great as Death in that movie.
Also,
Better Off Dead – although I think this one is much more widely appreciated now than when it first came out.
Eurotrip – That “Scotty Doesn’t Know” tune is pretty catchy, too.
The Replacements – and you’ve gotta love those cheerleader scenes.
Last Action Hero – I think it’s a pretty clever send-up of action film cliches, and Ahh-nold parodying himself.
The Addams Family – saw this in the theater when it first came out – loved it. It was more the tone that all the characters created, rather than the plot. And of course lots of good one-liners. I especially liked Wednesday, and her whole creepy demeanor.
Strangely, Groundhog Day is listed in my local paper with just 2 stars, but I don’t buy it. Especially since it’s got 94% on the tomatometer (at rottentomatoes.com), although granted that’s only out of 36 reviews…
