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Pauly Shore is Dead (2004)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:8
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.7/10
Runtime: 82 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: PAULY SHORE IS DEAD is a good idea both on paper and on film, a movie that answers the question "what ever happened to Pauly Shore?" with a satirical, sometimes self-deprecating, and often... PAULY SHORE IS DEAD is a good idea both on paper and on film, a movie that answers the question "what ever happened to Pauly Shore?" with a satirical, sometimes self-deprecating, and often hilarious honesty. Tracing the rise of the comedic it-boy and his subsequent fall from favor, Pauly eventually loses everything: his popularity, his house, his representation and his career. He is humiliated in the public eye, and is forced to go to work parking cars at his mother's club, The Comedy Store; at a loss, he receives a visitation from the ghost of Sam Kinison, who advises suicide. According to Kinison, Shore's dead career would be resurrected and canonized in the event of the comedian's death, and Pauly decides to go along with this, at least to a point. He fakes his own death, and Kinison's prophecy comes true as all of Hollywood and fans across the nation begin to extoll the genius that was Pauly. Basking in the glow of his newfound appreciation, Shore goes out on the town in disguise, but unfortunately his secret is discovered, he's locked up, and now looks more the fool than ever. The film is successful on the strength of it's good-natured, self-conscious quality of comedic revelation, and is certainly augmented by its star power. The half-fiction, half-autobiographical film boasts cameos from the likes of Sean Penn, Pam Anderson, Paris and Nicky Hilton, Whoopi Goldberg, Kurt Loder, Carson Daly, Vince Vaghn, Snoop Dog, Ben Stiller, Britney Spears, Chris Rock, Corey Feldman, and Heidi Fleiss, among many, many others. It would appear that The Weiz is not quite as unpopular as he presents himself. [More]
Starring: Pauly Shore, Eminem, Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres
Starring: Pauly Shore, Eminem, Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, Paris Hilton, Hilton Sisters, Vince Vaughn
Studio: Regent Releasing
Reviews for Pauly Shore is Dead
Key revelation is that Shore is a bitter, unpleasant, petty, humourless little man--and that his stoned weasel song and dance isn't doing that great a job of hiding it.
the single joke wears paper-thin over its 80 mercifully short minutes
...the movie turns into a game of spot the cameo more than anything else.
Will probably matter only slightly to Shore's fans, but this patchy film will hardly deliver Shore the crossover breakout he so sorely desires nor the admiration due a talented film auteur.
Shore's contempt extends well beyond himself to tar his fans and just about anyone who might be in the audience.
It works as a throwaway joke -- occasionally funny and often shamelessly tasteless. And it also helps if you like Shore.
A very funny, blatantly satirical and insolently honest look into the life of the former it boy.
A delightful surprise that’ll raise as many questions as it does bust guts.A very funny, blatantly satirical and insolently honest look into the life of the former it boy
Perhaps this will be the calling card that welcomes Shore back to fold... or maybe it’s just a suitable farewell.
While catching a Pauly Shore movie might rank somewhere slightly below self-tracheotomy on the To-Do lists of most people, I'm about to tell you something quietly shocking -- this is actually one of the funnier movies I've seen in a while.
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