| Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star | | Cast : | David Spade, Alyssa Milano | | Director : | Sam Weisman | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | September 05, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | February 17, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 13, 2005 | | Summary | Fun, Retro Comedy | Content
 | Fun, retro, comedy that unfortunately bases itself on bad over acting to carry the plot along. Was that, no, David Spade acting? Yes, once in a while David actually stops the "stand up comedy routine" and appears to have, uh, "emotional feelings". I don't care what other people say, the movie is a fun ride as long as you can overlook the occasional, if not frequent, "acting school drop out" performance by some of the actors. It delivers some good laughs and that's what it's all about.
Bottom Line:
Great surround sound. Lots of child actor 60's, 70's and 80's actor "cameo" appearances.
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| Rating | | | Date | January 27, 2005 | | Summary | Dickie Roberts shines | Content
| Pretty humorous and touching film, "Dickie Roberts" is definitely worth-watching with a great moral. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 20, 2005 | | Summary | Great Opening and ... Formulaic Story | Content
| 'Dickie Roberts -- Former Child Star' starts with a wonderful mocumentary style, which cleverly uses the 'archives' of the title role Dickie Roberts (played by David Spade), who was a popular child star on TV back in the 70s. Now, having lost everything, he dreams of the comeback, and today he joins in the celebrity boxing match with Emmanuel Lewis. And Dickie loses.
In spite of a good support from Jon Rovitz, the film then begins to falter because of its contrived plot with a sugary and predictable ending in view. The film tells how desperate Dickie can be, trying to get a role in the new film by Rob Reiner (who appears as himself). Rob kindly asks the former child star to 're-live your childhood.' Which means, Dickie Roberts must learn to live a normal life in a perfectly all-American family in suburbia (with the mother Mary McCormack), and teach something about life to the kids, or be taught by them.
Now David Spade keeps the ball rolling anyway, doing impersonations of ... er ... jet-ski or motorbike, which are very energetic but unfunny. Still, he carries the show pretty well though never showing better ideas than the opening sections, in which you can see several cameos including Tom Arnold and Brendan Fraser (Dickie insists on saying 'Fraijarr)'. And you can also see Alyssa Milano (who was the little daughter of the star of 'Commando')
Perhaps you might be most interested in the end credits, where a group of real-life former child stars appear and sing a comic song. You want to see the Brady Bunch kids? Here they are. And a bit of Corey Feldman or Corey Haim singing together. But of course, it is the film itslef that really matters, and that is done by Sam Weisman of run-of-the-mill 'The Out-of-Towners' and 'What's the Worst That Could Happen?.' That tells you more than enough.
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| Rating | | | Date | November 22, 2004 | | Summary | Except for the little girl writhing sexually...it's good. | Content
| Even though the tagline should have been [...] and the family should have not existed, I liked this movie...and I don't even really know why...
The occasional wit of David Spade? Nah. The child stars I didn't grow up with? None of that. I think what did it was that I didn't have to pay for what I was seeing...my friend just gave it to me 'cause he didn't like it. The very same effect that Corky Ramano had. I didn't have to pay for what I was seeing on TV, so I watched, and got some small enjoyment from it. And what's wrong with enjoyment, no matter how small the dose?--and the dose was ungodly small. I say: Nothin.
If you want to be made slightly happy by something--I guess if your knee was a little sore, and you were slightly down--you could watch this. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 21, 2004 | | Summary | Better Than I Expected | Content
| I am not a David Spade fan, but my sons recommended that I watch this movie, because it was very funny and entertaining.
Well, needless to say it was funny as hell and it had very good messages thrown in, in regard to family, which is was what Dickie Roberts was missing out on. Watching this movie makes you cherish your childhood and have you thinking back to the crazy and mindless things that you did.
Later.... |
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