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  • dreamless1986
    August 20, 2007
    dreamless1986
    I want my two dollars!!!!!!!!!!
  • dannyratcliff
    January 24, 2007
    dannyratcliff
    One of the few teen comedies to stand shoulder to shoulder with John Hughes' back-catalogue, Better Off Dead is a weird hybrid of the teen genre, pulling in strange fantasy elements that were (unfortunately) reined in/diluted for the director's later movies.
    This is one of the truly original teen comedies in a decade awash with them - using darker, more adult themes than many of it's peers to paint a more rounded picture of the times than one would first imagine.
    Lane's suicide attempts (I've always thought to be an homage to Harold and Maude), although played for laughs, strike a serious chord for such a "zany" comedy, and the drug references of the uber-cool Charles De Mar kinda outstrip the weed in Johnson's shorts (although I am in NOOO way rating Better Off Dead above The Breakfast Club) make this movie the logical step between the candy floss teen movie and their grown up counter-parts (St.Elmo's Fire, Bright Lights Big City etc.) (MORE of this on my page, if you're interested)
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