Road to Wellville
Added 9/29/2009
Purchased via Amazon, received in a timely fashion, one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Can't talk during the movie as one looses some of the funniest dialog. Great Great flick. Should be over 18 due to content.
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Pillorying the Puritan Ethos
Added 7/10/2009
Wellville is a scream. I can only assume the critics who hated it had some bad reaction to all the shibboleth busting. The film is flat-out hilarious, and for that reason it's also an insightful satire on the supposed virtues of American society. If laughter is a form of sedition, this film succeeds brilliantly. Religion, capitalism, and aceticism all come under a vigorous attack. The sexual overtones of the film are delightful. My favorite scenes are those where supressed human nature explodes through the veneer of ascetic regimen, the false consciousness of a clean and healthy body deriving from a clean mind. For those not killed off by the therapies devised at the "San," all the enemas, the spartan diets, the shock treaments do nothing but drive Kellogg's adherents into a dizzying sexual vertigo. All the self-denying and self-flagellation lead to outrageous bursts of erotic release. It's absolutely wonderfully seditious and insanely funny. Five stars!
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Masterwork of Situational Absurdity, Grossly Underrated
Added 3/7/2009
Amazon's reviews are usually reliable enough to live by, even when it means bucking a misguided critical trend, but they really dropped the ball on this one.
The otherwise not-so-remarkable Alan Parker will almost certainly never top this rollicking masterpiece of situational absurdity. It is a particular variety of humor, to be sure, but to dismiss it as "scatological" is just blunder.
While consistently outrageous throughout, and potentially difficult to follow at times, owing to the dizzying number of parallel story lines and fast pace, the movie is an elaborate, blatant mockery of health/wellness zealotry, and especially vegetarianism.
Cusack is particularly excellent, and gives his funniest performance ever (yes, better than Better Off Dead), as do Carvey and Hopkins. There are so many precious scenes that no one who sees the movie will ever be able to forget, least of all Cusack's side-splitting anti-vegetarian tirade towards the movie's conclusion, the all-too-glib Englishman with a preference for electrified bathwater, or the Kellogg family's fiery, yogurt-covered reconciliation.
Simply put, the funniest movie of the 90s. A must see.
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MNovie is great, but BEWARE OF ASPECT RATIO!
Added 8/5/2008
I gave a 5 star rating because the movie is that good, but this is the FULL SCREEN version of the film, not the widescreen version. Amazon really need to start labelling their movies a bit clearer. I'm no big movie buff, but I am quite into movies and when I saw the "1:33:1" aspect ratio, I assumed it was a widescreen version of the movie since I've always know the aspect ratio for full screen to be 4:3. It's not hard to put "The Road To Wellville (Full Screen Edition)" in the header of their movies. I feel pretty ripped off as this movie was 18 bucks, pretty expensive for a standard full screen DVD. What's odd is the movie doesn't seem to be released in the U.S. on DVD in widescreen. Really odd since they too the time to remaster the video.
Also, a note to movie companies... full screen versions of movies are outdated, have been for a while, and will be more and more outdated as time goes on. There's no reason at all to release a DVD ONLY in full screen format.
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A regular commedy
Added 7/19/2008
This movie is a commedy.Even using a good cast, this movie misses the target, many times.Using a real caracter - Dr. John H. Kellogg- as a source to a fiction, this movie is a regular commedy, but fat from amomg the best commedies available, to see.This movie was made, following a book with the same name.I didn't read the book, but this movie is just regular.
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Road to Wellville
Added 9/29/2009
Purchased via Amazon, received in a timely fashion, one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Can't talk during the movie as one looses some of the funniest dialog. Great Great flick. Should be over 18 due to content.
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Pillorying the Puritan Ethos
Added 7/10/2009
Wellville is a scream. I can only assume the critics who hated it had some bad reaction to all the shibboleth busting. The film is flat-out hilarious, and for that reason it's also an insightful satire on the supposed virtues of American society. If laughter is a form of sedition, this film succeeds brilliantly. Religion, capitalism, and aceticism all come under a vigorous attack. The sexual overtones of the film are delightful. My favorite scenes are those where supressed human nature explodes through the veneer of ascetic regimen, the false consciousness of a clean and healthy body deriving from a clean mind. For those not killed off by the therapies devised at the "San," all the enemas, the spartan diets, the shock treaments do nothing but drive Kellogg's adherents into a dizzying sexual vertigo. All the self-denying and self-flagellation lead to outrageous bursts of erotic release. It's absolutely wonderfully seditious and insanely funny. Five stars!
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Masterwork of Situational Absurdity, Grossly Underrated
Added 3/7/2009
Amazon's reviews are usually reliable enough to live by, even when it means bucking a misguided critical trend, but they really dropped the ball on this one.
The otherwise not-so-remarkable Alan Parker will almost certainly never top this rollicking masterpiece of situational absurdity. It is a particular variety of humor, to be sure, but to dismiss it as "scatological" is just blunder.
While consistently outrageous throughout, and potentially difficult to follow at times, owing to the dizzying number of parallel story lines and fast pace, the movie is an elaborate, blatant mockery of health/wellness zealotry, and especially vegetarianism.
Cusack is particularly excellent, and gives his funniest performance ever (yes, better than Better Off Dead), as do Carvey and Hopkins. There are so many precious scenes that no one who sees the movie will ever be able to forget, least of all Cusack's side-splitting anti-vegetarian tirade towards the movie's conclusion, the all-too-glib Englishman with a preference for electrified bathwater, or the Kellogg family's fiery, yogurt-covered reconciliation.
Simply put, the funniest movie of the 90s. A must see.
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