What separates Strangers with Candy from other high school comedies, or from most mainstream comedies in general, is the cast's total dedication to their parts.
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07/10/07
Strangers With Candy (2006)
51 %
Reviews Counted: 94 Fresh: 48 Rotten:46 Average Rating: 5.7/10
Consensus:
Occasionally funny, but little more than a jumbled, overextended episode of the TV show. Still, Candy devotees won't be disappointed.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Synopsis: Because of a difficult gestation period, STRANGERS WITH CANDY has endured several mooted release dates and a change of distributor, so fans of the Comedy Central TV show will doubtless be delighted to finally witness this full-length adaptation. The movie revolves around Jerri Blank (Amy... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Matthew Broderick, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Director: Paul Dinello
Screenwriter: Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Mitch Rouse
Producer: Lorena David, Mark A. Roberts
Screenwriter: Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Mitch Rouse
Producer: Lorena David, Mark A. Roberts
Reviews
There's nothing sweet about this very strange character, Jerri, but you still can't wait to see what outrageous thing she'll do next.
03/09/07
After a bracingly funny beginning, the film gets bogged down in silly plot permutations and repetitive humor, which was more effective in half-hour television doses.
03/01/07
[R]eplicate[s] in a raunchy cartoon how the chaos of our experience correlates more than we may care to admit to the chaos of our personalities.
01/05/07
In spite of its demented flavor, the movie surprisingly doesn't push the envelope the way the series did.
12/04/06
It roars along with reckless abandon, skewering everything in its path.
10/04/06
Clever and undeniably peculiar, Strangers with Candy suffers from both a complete lack of focus and a terminal case of self-satisfaction.
08/23/06
Connoisseurs of the show likely relish the induced awkwardness and off-kilter rhythms of the piece; a good part of its appeal was the blank and baffled looks it induced in the uninitiated.
08/13/06
Walks a fine line of comedic self-awareness, and only on occasion loses us in a haze of condescending wit.
08/07/06
Colbert steals scenes as Chuck Noblet . . . The cracked, sordid style of Strangers with Candy half-bewilders and half-appalls you into laughing.
08/06/06
Whether you guffaw, giggle or sit stone-faced through Strangers With Candy will depend on your reaction to Sedaris as Jerri and her freak show of over-the-top bad taste.
08/06/06
This plays like a 'Season One' DVD, silly moments interspersed with lots of dull plot and lame high-school send-up situations.
08/04/06
Like the classic comedies of Chaplin, Hawks and Woody Allen, Strangers With Candy is more than just a good subjective comedy -- it's a great objective film.
08/03/06
[T]here's demented, and then there's the plain sick and twisted tastlessness and hilarious audacity of this afterschool special gone horribly, wonderfully wrong.
08/02/06
The key to its success -- at least whatever success it can muster -- is the manic work of Amy Sedaris.
07/26/06
Fans of the show will rejoice and a few newbies will become converts.
07/23/06
Stretched to feature length, it's not consistently funny, but there are inspired moments and whipsmart lines that suggest how good the show was.
07/21/06
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