BlazeLime
Strong and Moving!
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Ariella Broughton
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Paul Magne Haakonsen
I remember that I saw this movie many years ago, but couldn't really recall whether it was a funny movie or not. I happened to find it again on Netflix, so I decided to sit down and watch it again.It turned out that the movie was actually funny, and I did recall the basics of the storyline. Darren (played by Jason Biggs) is about to marry Judith (played by Amanda Peet), a thing that Darren's two best friends, Wayne (played by Steve Zahn) and J.D. (played by Jack Black) does not want to see happen.The cast in the movie was good, and I especially enjoyed the roles played by Jack Black, Steve Zahn and Amanda Peet, because they really carried the movie so well.There are some good laughs here and there throughout the course of the movie."Saving Silverman" can be watched more than once; you just have to wait a significant amount of years before doing so.
tbills2
When Jack Black is onscreen in Saving Silverman it's nonstop hilarity and when Amanda Peet is onscreen it's nonstop cleavage. Amanda or Jack or both are in all the best parts. I love Saving Silverman mostly for Amanda and for Jack. Jason Biggs and Steve Zahn are both really good and funny and Amanda Detmer is so cute. I love Amanda and Amanda. Coach is funny. Saving Silverman is classic. I saw Saving Silverman in the theaters with high school friends back in 2001, in high school, and it was a fun and memorable experience. Saving Silverman is awesome, really sexy too cuz of the 2 Amandas, and super funny. This is a top 100 comedy for sure and more like top 50. There are so many funny moments I'd love to reference but whoever wrote this is really funny and from a funny perspective there is nothing to dislike about Saving Silverman. It's a great COMEDYYAAYAAH!!! Neil Diamond rocks!
leplatypus
As a Frenchman, i can find easily a lot of comedies that makes me laugh (those with De Funes, Youn, ...). Abroard, i think to "Mr. Bean" (english) and i can find also a real funny American show ("Married with children"). But, right now, to find American movies where i laugh a lot is difficult except maybe those with Chevy Chase and this one! I don't say here that American movies don't make me laugh: i just say that they can't make me laugh all along. So this one is a little surprise and i thank Amanda for her choice. In this movie, she plays a sexy bad girl, which are two new things for her. She is surrounded by an excellent cast that leaves for one time the support roles for the big stage (Zahn, Detmer and Ermey). The movie is great because it builds upon a truth: what happen to friends when one got married? Again, i don't think this idea has been used a lot of times and here, it is played with genius: the script is silly but never fails into craziness in spite of it's not easy to walk on this thin line. In addition, the action takes places in a sweet town at the ocean so the exterior are refreshing. Thus, you can believe me: after the good laughs at the start, you will keep your smile for another hour!
sychonic
Okay, the summary line is a bit much. But this movie combines so many strange odd elements it's hard to generalize in a summary.Probably everyone knows the plot: Three guys who are on the lower end of the food chain spend their time being sloths and playing in a Neil Diamond cover band. In and of itself, that's hilarious.Being a Neil Diamond fan, I appreciate the assertion, seemingly incontestable, that Neil Diamond is one of America's greatest song writers.The basic plot: one of the losers in the band falls in love with a gorgeous woman (nastily, and well, played by Amanda Peet) who promptly puts him under his thumb.And our other losers are aghast, and take action to respond to the situation, in a remarkably stupid fashion. But what do we expect? There are some gross out scenes, a lot of them actually. But if you can forgive those, there are some really funny, weird scenes. Adding in a cameo (ultra spoiler here) by Neil himself at the end, wonderful. Also and appearance by Varney, a Vietnam era drill instructor in such movies as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, as a very strange football coach, there are some plot diversions that one can at least go "huh" at.It's still juvenile, and very stupid usually, but there's enough fun, amidst the gross out, that at the right moment, it might be worth it.
