Hot Rod (Blu-ray) PG-13
Smack destiny in the face.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 12, 2017
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Andy Samberg, Isla Fisher & Bill Hader | |
Performer: | Jorma Taccone, Danny McBride, Sissy Spacek, Ian McShane & Chris Parnell | |
Directed by | Akiva Schaffer | |
Edited by | Malcolm Campbell | |
Screenwriting by | Pam Brady | |
Composition by | Trevor Rabin | |
Produced by | Lorne Michaels & John Goldwyn | |
Director of Photography: | Andrew Dunn | |
Executive Production by | Will Ferrell, Jimmy Miller & Jill Messick |
Entertainment Reviews:
The Jackass-ification of mainstream American comedy continues, but where are the laughs?
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
Silly but funny.
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Guardian
The silly kills the funny. Every time things get rolling, some guy starts doing a ridiculous dance for no reason. Or Rod and his brother incessantly repeat the words "cool beans."
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The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]here's a lot to enjoy....The best moments are musical, like a Footloose-spoofing sequence....Well worth checking out.
Empire
Rating: 2/4 --
If you're looking for plausibility, this is not your movie. If you're looking for laughs, this is not your movie. If you like seeing delusional overgrown adolescents fall down a lot, then this one's for you.
USA Today
Rating: 4/5 --
He'll break a few ribs -- you'll split your sides.
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Sky Cinema
Sandberg has a stubborn charm that should win over even the most jaded veteran of post-[Napoleon] Dynamite comedy.
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Irish Times
Product Description:
Amateur suburban stunt man Rod Kimble (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's Andy Samberg) believes he's destined to follow in the footsteps of his late father, who made test runs of Evel Knievel's stunts before the better-known daredevil repeated them and took all the glory. Kimble risks life and limb strictly for fun and the entertainment of the neighborhood kids, but when his macho stepfather, Frank (DEADWOOD's Ian McShane)--who repeatedly beats and belittles Rod in basement sparring matches--develops a life-threatening heart ailment, Rod attempts the biggest jump of his career to raise the $50,000 necessary to get Frank a heart transplant so that he can have one last chance to fight Frank and prove his manhood.
HOT ROD establishes its mission statement early on when Rod pedals his moped past a Salvation Army thrift store in his sloppily hand-decorated costume. Seemingly inspired by NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, THE KARATE KID, and the HAPPY DAYS episode in which the Fonz attempts to jump his motorcycle over 14 garbage cans, director Akiva Schaffer (Samberg's longtime cohort in the online comedy venture THE LONELY ISLAND) sets Pam Brady's (TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE) screenplay in what seems like the mid-1980's (complete with Europe-heavy hair metal soundtrack), though allowing for the existence of the Internet and Vitamin Water. The simple plotline is merely a jumping-off point for a series of failed stunts and often hilarious non-sequiturs. Samberg is likeable in his first starring role, but he is more than equaled by a supporting cast including SNL's Bill Hader, Danny McBride, fellow Lonely Islander Jorma Taccone, and Isla Fisher (WEDDING CRASHERS), who comprise Rod's loyal crew. McShane chews the retro scenery when onscreen and the always-welcome Sissy Spacek lends credibility to the proceedings in her few scenes as Rod's mom.
HOT ROD establishes its mission statement early on when Rod pedals his moped past a Salvation Army thrift store in his sloppily hand-decorated costume. Seemingly inspired by NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, THE KARATE KID, and the HAPPY DAYS episode in which the Fonz attempts to jump his motorcycle over 14 garbage cans, director Akiva Schaffer (Samberg's longtime cohort in the online comedy venture THE LONELY ISLAND) sets Pam Brady's (TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE) screenplay in what seems like the mid-1980's (complete with Europe-heavy hair metal soundtrack), though allowing for the existence of the Internet and Vitamin Water. The simple plotline is merely a jumping-off point for a series of failed stunts and often hilarious non-sequiturs. Samberg is likeable in his first starring role, but he is more than equaled by a supporting cast including SNL's Bill Hader, Danny McBride, fellow Lonely Islander Jorma Taccone, and Isla Fisher (WEDDING CRASHERS), who comprise Rod's loyal crew. McShane chews the retro scenery when onscreen and the always-welcome Sissy Spacek lends credibility to the proceedings in her few scenes as Rod's mom.
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