The Onion Movie | 
| Directors: Tom Kuntz, Mike Maguire, James Kleiner
Actors: Len Cariou, Steven Seagal, Larissa Laskin, Abigail Mavity, Daniel Dae Kim
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 8157
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 2251894
UPC: 024543518945
EAN: 0024543518945
ASIN: B0017XOF50
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 3, 2008
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Shelved since 2003 then released straight to DVD, the feature-length Onion Movie is based on the satirical nationwide newspaper The Onion, which works better in print than on celluloid. That said, hardcore Onion fans will appreciate this effort to enliven text with filmed comedic sketches that strongly resemble Saturday Night Live news and National Lampoon. Directors Tom Kuntz and Mike Maguire translate what would normally read as sarcastic headlines into slapstick skits starring three news reporters, Norm Archer (Len Cariou), Larissa Laskin (Dana Dobbs), and Scott Klace (Kip Kendall), reporting on idiotic events either live or in the studio. The newsreel opens, for example, with a report from Archer on the dangers of "neck belts" in automobiles, that have lately been decapitating drivers. Spoofs on everyone and everything, from slutty teen stars, racial stereotyping, the handicapped, to military recruitment officials turned peaceful by marijuana, add plenty of characteristically perverse and iffy Onion humor to this odd film. The Onion Movie relies loosely on a plot in which Norm Archer, devoted anchorman, protests a toy penguin interrupting his screen time in the name of advertising an upcoming film, Cockpuncher, that the network's corporate sponsor, Global Tetrahedron, has funded. This facetious action film featuring Steven Seagal, looks a little too life-like after Norm takes measures to fight the power. At an hour and a half, news skits interrupted by fake commercials and Archer's fits of rage feel played out, though skit-to-skit, the news broadcasts are quite hilarious, making the film an overall winner if you're in the mood for mockery. --Trinie Dalton
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 Funny and enjoyable June 27, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
The Bottom Line:
The Onion Movie is not as clever or ruthlessly satirical as the true Onion, but it offers 85 minutes of often-hilarious sketch comedy which is held together much better than other similar offerings (e.g. Kentucky Fried Movie) and provides welcome entertainment and laughs.
3/4
 The Onion Movie: Painful In A Bad Way May 29, 2009
Ronald F. Cooney (Reno, NV)
Despite the brain-dead liberalism of The Onion writers
and editors, I've thoroughly enjoyed the satire that they
have produced over the years.
I can only suppose that The O hasn't done more with (and to)
Obama because (a) they share an initial or (b) there is nothing
funny about what he's doing to America.
Sadly, there is not much funny about The Onion movie, either.
It goes off like a string of wet firecrackers (unlit); there
is no structure, there is much lameness. It goes nowhere with ex-
crutiating slowness. Films like The Groove Tube and Kentucky
Fried Movie, cheesy, frequently stupid and uneven as they
were, at least had some energy. The Onion Movie is dead in
the water. It looks like the kind of inane and sodden mess that
its writers and "director" might make fifty years from now in
the Old Satirist's home when they hearken back to how funny they
were.
Whole sections are shockingly tired and trite: a TV ad for a gay-
themed cruise line; a news report on an Alzheimer victims rally;
and others so pointless and dumb you might you wish you had
Alzheimer's to forget them.
Then there's the endless repetition of The Onion logo which makes
the sad enterprise seem like nothing more than shameless
commercial for the REAL Onion (or was that some species of
irony lost on this viewer?)
The movie never should have been made. The Onion itself is sui
generis as all of its many and dreadful imitators have shown.
But The Onion editors like to preen themselves on how much smarter
they are than everyone else. (To which claim the best answer
is a familiar two-word oath).
Such an attitude requires the question: how smart DO you have
to be to make a movie this thoroughly rotten?
Unbearable May 27, 2009
Good Gravy (Minnesota)
I have been an adoring fan of The Onion newspaper, and I have a high tolerance, indeed predilection for awful movies. However, I can say with no metaphor or exaggeration that I found this movie nausea-inducing! Thank goodness my friends and I consumed copious amounts of weed while watching it or my unsoothed stomach may have attempted emptying itself in a misguided attempt to rid my body of its influence.
Its fundamental problem is a nasty case of Self-Satirizing Syndrome. The attempts to parody American culture and the news industry completely backfire, coming off as a childish imitation of biting satire (isn't that what all the cool kids are doing? What about brain lesions, is that how all the cool kids are getting injured now?). The intelligence level of this movie tragically does not rise above its subject matter. There are a few good performances here (Len Cariou, Mousie Garner), and a handful of legitimately funny sketches, but overall I say NOT WORTH IT.
 onion movie May 2, 2009
James B. Boyd (Castlewood, South Dakota)
Very funny, have watched this movie at least 5 times, plan to watch it again soon!!
Quick Shippment! February 20, 2009
Neal R. Susalla (Oak Creek, Wisconsin United States)
The DVD showed up first out of the three things I ordered at the same time and in fine shape. Nice Job!!!
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