Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (Blu-ray)

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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 19, 2016
  • Originally Released: 2015
  • Label: Magnolia Home Ent

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User Ratings: 1,516
[T]here is something of an organic arc to Tirola framing most of his celebratory movie around mastermind Doug Kenney, who, with Harvard alumnus Henry Beard, turned slaughtering political, religious and cultural sacred cows into a new kind of satirical stampede.
Los Angeles Times
Oct 1, 2015
The movie is an orgy of boomer self-congratulation -- yet it lacks even that movie's ironic notation of how a bastion of white-male privilege managed to pass itself off as radical. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Oct 8, 2015
Rating: 3/4 -- What makes Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead feel particularly vibrant is how the Lampoon's specific art direction is put to use. Full Review
Philadelphia Inquirer
Oct 8, 2015
With this sensitive yet playful voice, Tirola shows how decades of richly comedic material found its cultural maturity. Full Review
FILMINK (Australia)
Apr 22, 2016
Rating: 3/4 -- We can only imagine with glee what these comic geniuses could have done with some of today's political and cultural figures. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Oct 8, 2015
Drunk Stoned Brilliant did convince me that the Lampoon has a colorful, even important, journalistic history, and that some extraordinary talents were involved, however often they were drugged out. Full Review
Arts Fuse
May 23, 2016
Rating: 3.5/4 -- A frenetic, rough-edged, unapologetic tribute to the Lampoon, featuring some amazing archival footage, nifty bits of animation and dozens of straightforward talking-head interviews that crackle and pop.
Chicago Sun-Times
Oct 8, 2015

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The National Lampoon name has been synonymous with irreverent and outrageous comedy for the past forty-five years. This documentary takes the viewer on a tour through the history of the Lampoon, starting with early years of the magazine (which published its first issue in April, 1970) to its influence on groundbreaking comedy films such as CADDYSHACK, VACATION and GHOSTBUSTERS. For this film, director and former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz, collected the best material from the magazines and interviewed Lampoon veterans from the early days to provide a glimpse into the innerworkings of this influential publication.

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  • UPC: 876964009478
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