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03/24/02
Scotland, PA (2002)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:44
Rotten:30
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Though it's not as good as it could have been, Scotland PA shows cleverness at utilizing its premise.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Yahtzee, chicken nuggets, weed-smoking clairvoyant hippies, Shakespearean refrains, and jamming rock songs by Bad Company are some of the key elements of director Billy Morrissette's ode to MACBETH... [More]
Starring: James LeGros, Maura Tierney, Christopher Walken, Kevin Corrigan
Director: Billy Morrissette
Reviews for Scotland, PA
It's simple, sizzly and very funny.
03/22/02
The fun is infectious -- the puns, in-jokes and referential asides will keep Shakespeare buffs busy and the rest of the audience entertained even as some punch lines zing over their heads.
03/22/02
Wonderful.
03/18/02
Morrisette occasionally has a clever idea but finds nowhere to take it.
03/15/02
A trailer-trash version of Macbeth that should be avoided like an Elizabethan pox.
03/13/02
Scotland, Pa. is a strangely drab romp. Some studio pizazz might have helped.
03/08/02
Scotland, PA is Macbeth done with bell-bottoms, fast food and absolutely no pretension. It's that last bit that makes this amiable, shaggy Shakespeare satire so engaging -- and so disposable, too.
03/08/02
... the quality of the material is scattered and uneven.
03/08/02
... plays like one of those lampoons put on by lawyers (and journalists), the kind that start out amusing and end up grasping for gags.
03/08/02
Deviating from the familiar plot whenever internal logic so demands, the movie is a splendid success on its own terms.
03/07/02
Earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the many, many moments when we recognize even without the Elizabethan prose, the play behind the thing.
03/07/02
The audacity to view one of Shakespeare's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is, by itself, deserving of discussion.
03/07/02
More of a bitter, mean-spirited parody than it is a tragedy, and chances are you're either going to really dig it or think it's awful (chalk me up in the former category).
03/05/02
... a gleefully grungy, hilariously wicked black comedy ...
03/04/02
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03/02/02
None of this is very original, and it isn't particularly funny.
03/01/02
A wickedly funny and dark take on Macbeth.
03/01/02
Morrissette's screenplay is filled with funny touches.
03/01/02
The jokes sometimes fall flat, but the weirdness and darkening of tone make for quirky fun.
02/28/02
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