very disappointed
Added 12/16/2008
I NEVER received my order therefore I cannot review it. However, I am very disappointed with the seller and I am hesitant to order from Amazon.com again.
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One of my all time favorites.
Added 12/3/2008
Great movie! The special effects are almost as good as Charles Schneers 1981 production "Clash of the Titans." Sometimes the OLD is GOLD.
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Galaxy Glue!!
Added 4/18/2008
This brings back memories of all the great 80's flicks on HBO. It may not be Oscar Award caliber, but it's a great movie for the family to enjoy.
I wish it would be released on DVD though. My sister & I still quote lines from this movie...remember "Run Sidney! Run!"
And we all remember Concepcion dancing around in the kitchen & cramming egg shells down the disposal on top of Pat who's fallen down the drain!
Classic! Can't wait until the powers that be release this one on DVD!!
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Why isn't this on DVD???
Added 8/28/2007
I really wish they would put this on DVD. I have a very old copy that my aunt taped from Showtime back when cable was very primative. The beginning is cut off (it starts as they are driving down the road from the grocery store with everyone saying "Hi Pat."). Anyway...if there is a studio producer reading this...PUT THIS MOVIE ON DVD!!!!
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Added 6/21/2006
It would be amazing in reality if products can really do to a person what they did to Pat Kramer (aka Lily Tomlin) in this spoof of the feminine side to The Incredible Shrinking Man. Pat Kramer who is a well-known and well-loved citizen in a town where she always shops, where her neighbors love her and know everything about her, and her husband (Charles Grodin) who is into advertising and coming up with names for products, which Pat just happens to try at home, do something to her matabolism. The special effects that show her shrinking are quite awesome and amazing. The dolls and toys scene is hillarious! And the ape Sidney at an institute where Pat gets kidnapped because they want to do experiments on her blood as to why she's shrinking. What amazes me is when Pat was on the podium on her last shrinking phase telling everyone she's about to go, she swims in a pool of fabric softener and comes back???? As funny as it seems they leave you hanging at the end cause when her husband tries to put her wedding ring back on, it won't go and she GROWS and her shoes explode. One thing I will say is at the end the little jingle that they use for the glue product GALAXY GLUE it is an annoying and catchy won't get out of your head tune sung by an unknown named LINDA NOVEMBER but as I said if you have nothing else better to do, this movie is one to watch in the humorous stage. The ape to me seems to steal the show when he helps Pat escape from the institute. I hope that they RErelease this movie on DVD cause it is a cult classic if there ever was one. It stars Ned Beatty (Superman, Superman II, Deliverance, The Toy), Charles Grodin (Seems Like Old Times, Mupper Caper, The Woman In Red, Midnight Run, Beethoven), Lily Tomlin (playing three parts herself, her neighbor Judith, and the one she played on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In the snorty annoying operator which you'll only see once so don't miss it!) and a cameo appearance by Mike Douglass who had a talk show back in the mid 80's. Let's hope that this will come out on DVD....anyone else think so?
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Pure Genius, just give it a chance....
Added 5/18/2009
Based on the title of my review you may think that I am very enamored with this film and I am, but it is not totally flawless.
As with many films this one starts with much of it's momentum in the beginning and then it gradually unravels to the point that it depends more on the goodwill of the audience than the quality of the direction or the writing. Where this film differs is that the audience may actually have some goodwill left by the time it reaches that point.
Lily Tomlin is wonderful in this film, although I must admit that I am only 29 and I am very unfamiliar with anything else she has done. (Fortunately this allows me to simply enjoy this performance without comparing it to any of her other works). In addition, the late 70's-early 80's style cinematography may have been the standard at the time, but it does wonders to add to the charm of this film. If it were filmed today I could easily imagine that the sanitized imagery of high definition filming would dull the sharp edge of this movies satirical sense of humor.
Overall this is a film to watch if you are not the type to pick a movie apart. The film shifts gears from touching, to comedic, to plain silly to thought-provoking and back again. Not to harp on the point, but if it were made today it would be too serious and wouldn't leave room for the viewer's imagination to fill in the blanks in a way that would be conducive to the success of the message of this film.
This is a film that charms with it's message rather than winning you over with rock-solid logic. The concept of a shrinking woman should have let you know that logic should be thrown out of the window from the onset.
Over and out.
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The video cover was torn. I realize that it is an old movie on VHS but I've seen better quality. Overall there are no major problems with viewing it.
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Loved it as a kid...still do
Added 9/5/2007
I remember my parents taking me to this show when I was about 10 years old. I loved it and recently found it again in VHS. I think some scenes with "Edith Ann" in the lab were completely cut out of the VHS version. Anyone know why? Great family film. Now my girls love it too.
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