Word: humor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effective leader. Levy is a former producer of the Freshman Musical, and one of the leaders of BAGELS, a group for bisexual, gay and lesbian Jewish students which is affiliated with Hillel. He is also the only non-first year on the board of Satire V, a new humor magazine on campus...
Which is part of the problem with the movie: the adventure aspect of the movie grows to be so sprawling that there is no room left for the delicate humor that older viewers will appreciate. The Rugrats Movie starts out harmlessly enough. "Rugrats" fans of all ages will be thrilled by the entrance of a new cast member: Dylan Pickles, who is promptly and unfortunately nicknamed "Dil" by his very own parents. He turns out to be just as sour as his namesake, much to older brother Tommy's dismay. To allay Tommy's miseries, his father Stu takes...
...gets a little too ridiculous, as the babies somehow find themselves in some woods in the middle of nowhere. Seasoned "Rugrats" viewers will feel a small alarm go off in their heads: something's wrong with this picture! What's wrong is that now, rather than the plotline and humor coming from the precocious babies or the silly, stupid adults, they're coming from a far too unlikely situation...
...hard "Rugrats" fans will leave the theater a bit disappointed. The subtle humor and cute simplicity of the 11-minute plotlines on the T.V. show are for the most part absent from the movie. But it's still fun to watch-plus, it contains never-before-seen footage of Tommy's bare bottom! Who could resist...
What The Cable Guy had, Very Bad Things lacks: a comedic actor working with disturbing material, scenes of psychological violence and moments when the veil of horror is rent, revealing dark humor underneath. What Very Bad Things has, The Cable Guy did not: an ensemble of characters who--despite including pseudo-stars like Christian Slater--never quite mesh, scenes of physical violence and moments when the superficial horror turns out to conceal nothing besides yet more superficiality. And blood. Blood, limbs and gore, in all of their nauseating variations. Here is where Very Bad Things shows itself to be neither...