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Some of your best friends...
In a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.
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08 Aug 1970
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Maybe we're all just dogs in a pound.
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"Well, at least we know he's a brother. But if he's really the Honky Killer, why should he threaten me?"
"Maybe he's got a thing for pigs."
When this surreal satirical comedy by Robert Downey Sr is remembered at all, it's mainly for two things. Its X rating gave it a certain notoriety (although that rating is hardly deserved - yes a lot of its language and dialogue is provocative and potentially offensive, but hardly unprecedented, and there's not much in the way of violence or nudity). And it's become retrospectively notable as the first screen appearance of Robert Downey Jr at the age of 5 (not that he gets much screentime).
A group of people sit around in a…
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Felt great returning to Robert Downey Sr. An anarchic comic artistry that reminds me of college, a time when I was optimistic about my future.
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“Have any hair on your balls?”
This is my third movie from Robert Downey Sr.. It is my least favorite from him so far and it didn’t really do much for me.
The movie follows a group of dogs in a dog pound, who waits to be adopted or put down, but when we see the dogs from inside the pound, we see them as humans.
The movie is bizarre and uses a lot of the weird comedy Robert Downey Sr. is known for, but it wasn’t very engaging and I struggled to understand what was going on many times, while I also struggled to hear and understand some of the dialogue.
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The story-less exploits of a group of people who are actually dogs ( and a cat and a penguin) in a dog pound waiting to be adopted or put down; all loosely framed by a documentation of the seemingly unconnected "honky killer": a serial sniper.
It's an endless barrage of asides and one-liners that really shows its off-off Broadway roots, but is completely engaging for its entire run time - like an early Marx Brothers film dipped in hash oil.
Notable for the screen debut of Robert Downey, Jr. (director Robert Downey, Sr.'s son - makes sense right?), who was 5 years old at the time, and whose only line is, "Do you have hair on ya balls?".
It's a completely unhinged, razor-sharp satire and surrealist spoof.
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Lot of West Village fringe theater vibes coming off of this. The concept is cool, but that charm wears off. A bunch of "dogs" are in the pound, and each is a variety of social undesirable, be it age, race, or psychosis. This becomes the fruit of some waywardly absurd theater. It's weird and rambling, and eventually gets fully whacked out with slapstick and non sequiturs. The movie definitely thinks it's funny when I think it's pretentious, and it definitely thinks it's avant-garde when I think it's high out of its fucking mind.
It was delightful to see a five-year-old Robert Downey Jr. though.
Mike and Dave’s Scavenger Hunt, Vol. 18: … And Then There Was X(ebeche)
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Lovingly deranged, I bet acting in this movie waa very fun. Great music too.. RIP to Downey.
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much better than CATS
I would see it again and again
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Weird, disjointed and strangely watchable.
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Counterculture-Surrealismusstahl.
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Az amerikai filmkomédia Robert Crumbja két klasszikusa között elkészítette saját színdarabjából ezt az elfeledett szerzői gyöngyszemet egy csapat sintértelepi kutyáról, akik közös ketrecükben Gazdára várva szembenéznek a lét nagy kérdéseivel, miközben forradalmat szerveznek, üzekednek, marakodnak, megváltóra vágynak vagy épp szülnek egy plüsspingvint - kegyetlen politikai szatíra, beckett-i abszurd, groteszk kabaréhumor keveredik szinte emészthetetlen sűrűségben: ebrendészeti holocaust dráma, ahol minden kutya a mennybe jut, kivéve a hatéves Robert Downey Jr.-t, akit azonnal örökbe fogadnak.
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It's the kind of story concept Pixar might make...but told with an anger, humor, risk and commitment we don't see much in movies anymore.
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