The Burbs | Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern

The Burbs | Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern | When Neighborhoods Fight Back

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The Burbs

	The Burbs Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern Universal Studios, 1992 average customer review:based on 162 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Tom Hanks stars in this sporadically funny, extended sketch piece about a gaggle of suburban neighbors so preoccupied with mysteries taking place behind the closed doors of a newcomer that they go to extremes to look inside. The film is essentially a simple satire from director Joe Dante, for whom suburbia has been ripe territory for such comic-horror stories as Gremlins, Explorers, Matinee, and Small Soldiers. Of all Dante's movies, The 'burbs has the least story material to go around, and it depends heavily (and with modest success) on the comic powers of its cast--including Bruce Dern as a paranoid nut, Hanks as a Mr. Normal-type who loses perspective, and Rick Ducommun as Hanks's neurotic best friend. These appealing people hold one's attention, but by the end of the film, with nothing much having happened, even the cast can't mitigate an empty feeling. --Tom Keogh

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GOOD MOVIE

THIS HAS BEEN MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE IN THE WORLD. AND COULDN'T FIND IT NO WHERE!! TILL I LOOKED ON AMAZON AND TADA! THERE IT WAS AND I HAD TO BUY IT.. IT CAME UNDAMAGED..

When Neighborhoods Fight Back

This is a superbly farcical dark comedy. There are, surprisingly, many layers of subtle humor in this otherwise madcap comedy. It may take a number of times watching this movie before you begin to see some of the more subtle jokes that often happen in the background.

As always, Tom Hanks is great, but the supporting cast does an equally superb job in their respective roles: the former soldier across the street; the childish, simplistic neighbor who drags the world down to his level; the longsuffering wife; the stoner teen. They just culminate in a cast that makes this movie eminently watchable.

This one is a great movie for a Friday the 13th party if you want a semi-dark movie that is still funny.

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classic hanks and a classic 80's flick

Hanks' rant at the end ("WE'RE the wierdos!") is awesome. As is all the performances in this movie. That Corey kid is pretty damn annoying, but that was his role in pretty much every movie he's ever been in (with Stand By Me as the obvious exception).

My favorite quote: "I'm gonna kill everyone, Satan is good, Satan is my PAL..."

The intro to the movie that goes from the Universal Studios logo/animation and zooms in to the 'burbs is a personal favorite sequence of the movie.

Great Movie

This has got to be one of my favorite movies. It has a bit of comedy and a little scare here and there but all in all a wonderful movie. I watch it evey chance I get.

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Beyond strange.

The 'Burbs is one of the strangest films starring Tom Hanks. Parts of this dark comedy are good and funny but mostly this film is a mess. Hanks saves this film and Carrie Fisher is pretty good as well but the plot is bizzarre. I won't give away too much but expect a quirky tale, I think I like Corey Feldman, it's a sick 1980s crush, give The 'Burbs a viewing soon.

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