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Kids in the Hall - Brain Candy

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Canadian sketch comics Kids in the Hall reformed after the demise of their TV show for this satire, which is now attracting a strong cult following.

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The Canadian shock-comedy troupe, Kids in the Hall, first gained national popularity with their CBC TV series, which ran from the late-'80s into the mid-'90s. They briefly reunited in 1996 for Brain Candy, their first and, so far, only feature film. The story's premise concerns a greedy pharmaceutical company that has invented a new drug that can make people happy. However, the company releases the drug to the public before doing the proper testing and side effects soon emerge. All the Kids are here (David Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson) and they play a variety of characters. The film has a good, ambitious premise, but the group's broad, sketch-comedy delivery is perhaps a bit at odds with the needs of a feature-length film. --D.K. Latta

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1.0 out of 5 stars A MOVIE SO UNFUNNY I FEEL SOMEONE OWES ME 90 MINUTES BACK!, July 25 2002
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Saint Marquis (New Haven, CT United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kids in the Hall - Brain Candy (DVD)
Dear God what happened here? How do you go from creating some of the funniest characters of all time...On one of the funniest shows of all time....By 5 of the funniest guys of all time... To creating a movie so UNfunny it literally seems to know it and ooze sad resignation.

Now don't get me wrong: I am the biggest KITH fan there is... In fact, I just saw them 3 times a month ago on the new live tour. But BRAIN CANDY is just awful.

Plain and simple.

It is painful to watch. We are teased with small snippets of the best charcters of the show...And left with a movie full of new not funny characters and a script that actually tries to be a SCRIPT!

God, I would have rather they released a theatrical version of the show.

BRAIN CANDY? No. BRAIN DEAD is more like it.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Great movie., July 2 2004
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R. Nevitt (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kids in the Hall - Brain Candy (DVD)
To quote a New York Times reviewer:

"I was privy to an early test screening of this, and it was weirder and better than the final product. Even the final, watered-down version beats the hell out of most safe so-called comedies, though."

I had a friend that also got to see the "original ending" which he claims was among the funniest things he had ever seen in his life. I personally thought the movie was great, and have enjoyed it a couple of times on DVD. I really think though that the DVD could have benefited from having the alternate ending and aditional footage added back in.

As I understand it though, Paramount executives don't care about anything but patting each other on the back while their studio slips into oblivion. They released the DVD of Clue with a mono soundtrack. Look at how Paramount destroyed their most profitable cash cow "Star Trek." So the chances of us getting to see that alternate ending of Brain Candy is darn near slim to none. It really is unfortunate... it sounds fantastic.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I love this movie., May 15 2004
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Maggie Kwok (Fremont, California United States) - See all my reviews
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I just love this movie and you can quote it easily that will continue the fun after the film is done. Beautiful. F-HAPPY!!
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