The Pest | | Cast : | John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones | | Director : | Paul Miller | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | February 07, 1997 | | DVD Released Date : | March 01, 2005 | | Language : | Unknown (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 04, 2005 | | Summary | Regioun 4 Review | Content
 | The Pest has just been released on regioun 4. The pest is about a guy who is a scam artist who finds himself being offered a lot of money for a German whacko (Jeffrey Jones) to hunt him for game.
It's filled with comedy, whackyness and over the top humour, you could say it's a real life cartoon in ways. John plays a funny charactor named Pestorio "Pest" and also Mad TV's Aries Spears plays his best friend along with a bunch of unknowns.
Overall the movie has some funny stuff and it's pretty underrated. I hope John didnt apologise for it, he has nothing to apologise about for this film. Bring on The Return Of The Pest. (Part 2)
The bonus features are an Audio Commentary (zzzz) and a badly done biography read on John and the producer. And there is also a 5 minute featureete / behind the scenes thing and a couple of trailers.
John actualy wrote the opening song he's singing and it's hillarious to hear what he can come up with in improv. It's only a cheapie, so it's worth the price. Other wise rent it before dissmissing it, it is highly underrated. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 20, 2005 | | Summary | Man Imitates Bugs Bunny | Content
| This movie did not do well in the theaters, it got bad reviews, even Leguizamo has apologized for it. I don't care: this was one of the funniest movies ever! It has Jeffrey Jones, the guy from "Howard the Duck" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Now you know a film has to be hilariously corny if he is in it. The great thing about this movie is how Leguizamo acts like a live, human version of Bugs Bunny. This is the type of slapstick rarely seen in modern films. Further, Leguizamo mocks all people who think of race in solely black&white terms by his ethnic drag of all cultures. Too funny. And the "Latinus S___ticus" gag was rollover funny! I hated the homophobia and how gayness is rendered white only (as if Miami doesn't have many Latino, black, and Asian gay men), but still this movie is great! |
| Rating | | | Date | January 09, 2005 | | Summary | You'll hate yourself, but you'll laugh your a** off... | Content
| Is this a great movie? No, it isn't. It's an incredibly stupid movie - the writing is about on the level of what was shown on USA's Up All Night circa 1991. But John Leguizamo is so d@mn funny that you will laugh in spite of it. It's kind of fitting that Bevis and Butthead are referred to several times in the film, because that's about what it's like, minus the social satire. You could spend all day listing flaws (the humor is juvenile and often in bad taste, Jeffrey Jones' ridiculous German accent comes and goes without warning, and the guy playing his son shows no acting ability at all...) - but what's the point? You know what you're getting here. Pauly Shore _wishes_ he could do it this well. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 09, 2005 | | Summary | awsomely funny | Content
| this movie was really really funny you have to belive me it was one of the best funny movies I have seen |
| Rating | | | Date | November 13, 2004 | | Summary | Awesome Movie!!!! | Content
| This has to be the funniest movie ever. When my cousin and i first discovered this movie in 1997/1998 we rented it every weekend for about 2 months straight and watched it at least twice every time. I am totally hooked on it. it was hilarious. |
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