Repossessed | | Cast : | Linda Blair, Leslie Nielsen | | Director : | Bob Logan | | Studio : | Lions Gate Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color | | Released Date : | September 14, 1990 | | DVD Released Date : | August 19, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 23, 2005 | | Summary | Satan Comes through the TV | Content
 | It works for me.
This is a very dated comedy but it is good for a few laughs from those who might remember the cultural references. The emphasis is on "a few laughs". This movie certainly does not live up to the standard set by the NAKED GUN series or to that set by AIRPLANE. That's sad since it is from the same source and Leslie Nielsen plays the lead.
The story is of an exorcist who has gone into retirement after his last successful exorcism of a young girl. Many years later, that girl, now a woman, is repossessed while watching TV. The exorcist is reluctant to come out of retirement and tries to delegate the work to a young priest. The priest winds up getting help from a televangelist at first and then just about every other religious figure imaginable after that. Finally, it is the old exorcist who must save the day.
This show is filled to the brim with lowbrow comedy and sight gags. It is also full of pop and political cultural references from the era in which it was made. If you remember these, you will get a bit more out of it. It also helps to have seen the original EXORCIST.
This is not great comedy but it was somewhat amusing.
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| Rating | | | Date | April 25, 2005 | | Summary | A great comedy and satire of the Exorcist | Content
| This was one funniest movies ever, Linda Blair probably needed the cash signs up to mock herself in this comedic satire of the Exorcist and other movies.
Man the jokes are so over the top, everything from the Ayatolla
in Iran to everyday American fads are mocked here.
The great touch was adding Jesse Ventura and Mean Gene for
commentary. Brilliant!!
Leslie Nielsen is at his best here as Father Mayi and Linda
Blair basically replaying her Exorcist character with much
more sick gags is funny. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 12, 2005 | | Summary | Is she possessed or is it PMS???? | Content
| I love these kind of movies (with the expolsuin of Fatal Instinct)
Repossessed is both a whacky, slappy and goofey comedy and also an un-offical sequl to The Excorsist. The same woman who played Regan Teresa MacNeil(Linda Blair) in "The Excorcist"(1973) returns to play the same charactor in this hillarious comedy but named Nancy Aglet.
She is now all grown up and has a husband and 2 kids and one night she is starting to be possessed again. With some help from a preist Father Luke Brophy (Peter Green) they track down Father Mayii (Leslie Neilson) who is playing the priest who is supposed to have preformed the exorcisim years ago in the Exorcist movie.
A lot of zaney things happen along the way. A lot of whacky comedy and slapstick humour. If you cant laugh during this movie, check into the morgue and choose a cooler to lay in till your wake-end.
A few fammiluer faces along the way, Linda Blair, Ned Beatty, Leslie Nielsen, Anthony Starke, Thom Sharp, Lana Schwab ,Benj Thall, Dove Dellos, Jacquelyn Masche, Melissa Moore, Willie Garson, Erna Gregory, Richard Halpern, Carol Shermer, Kathy Topia ...more
If you liked movies like Airplane/Flying High, Naked Gun, Hot Shots, Spaceballs, Kentucky Fried Movie, Scary Movie, Loaded Weopen 1, Silence Of The Hams, I know what you did last friday the 13th then you should enjoy Repossessed. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 23, 2004 | | Summary | Funny, but the cursing was a little uneccesary. | Content
| I thought that Repossessed was really funny! It should have been the funniest horror comedy of the year 1990. I was extremely impressed on how they made very funny and well thoughtout jokes. It was a little crazy mixed in with a little funny! I wish they would make a sequel of it. If you want to see this than you have to watch The Exorcist, Possessed, or Poltergiest. They all have to pretty much cover the whole story about Repossessed. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 13, 2004 | | Summary | Good script writing, bad acting | Content
| If it weren't for the fact that whoever wrote this script was extremely talented, this movie would have been depressingly terrible. The acting in this movie suffers from... well, it just suffers. Leslie Nielson does a decent job as a retired excorsist while the other unknowns in this movie simply seem to be along for the ride. Linda Blair does a great Satan, but she isn't at all humorus, and the guy who plays the young priest isn't even worth attention (except for the fact that he has some nice lines). The female TV avengelist does a great job of being a total ditz, but she also isn't really worthy of much notice.
Fortunately enough, the script's jokes rely mostly upon Nielson or prop jokes, allowing the viewers to ignore the lousy acting. Blair also has some nice lines, and delievers them well, although most of them simply involve mimicing another show or movie (Barbara Walters, "There here." From Polterguiest).
Overall a really good movie if you've seen every other available Nielson video, but definately not his best. I guess the children weren't the only ones who needed the acting lessons. |
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