Dermot Mulroney, James Cromwell, Scott Adsit

A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary...( read more  read more... ) cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.

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Directed by: Sean Meredith

Release Date: January 1, 2007

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DVD Release Date: August 26, 2008

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  • August 10, 2009
    Once you get passed the badly cut out cardboard puppets you will really enjoy this movie. I thought it was quite funny and crazy.
  • April 7, 2009
    Funniest thing EVER!
  • March 23, 2009
    such a boring movie.. ok, some intersting points.. but still too boring. Sorry.
  • October 16, 2008
    Simply marvelous. A surprisingly beautiful film full of satire, comedy and an obvious respect for it's inspiration in literature. A helluva lot of effort and imagination went into this production. It does deviate on occasion from the original work (to be expected) but it's overal...( read more)l accuracy and loyalty to Dante's masterpiece is commendable. I'm unfamiliar with most of the voice cast but I can say that James Cromwell is probably the only actor who could have brought the appropriate amount of gravitas to the respected and venable Virgil. Although I would have preferred a strictly traditional interpretation (and still do), I found the combination of the original material with contemporary concepts, scenery and persons to be both original and refreshing. It helps to make this work of art more accessible and more fun to modern audiences who may not have the patience to read about Dante's (relatively) unknown contemporaries. From Hitler to Stalin to Strom Thurmond to the guy who killed Gandhi, they all take their rightful place in the Inferno, though not necessarily where you might expect! Another novel innovation was the decision to portray this piece as a dark comedy rather than a heavy theological/allegorical drama. One generally doesn't come to laughter reading of Dante's descent but the laughs engendered by this film seem oddly appropriate, despite the subject matter. The short musical in the 2nd Bolgia of the 8th Circle is a wonderful surprise and a particular delight. Apart from the small deviation from the original, the ONLY complaint I have for this film is it's relatively short length (although it does manage to cover a surprising amount of material in 76 minutes) and it's stand-alone status; it doesn't seem likely that there will be a similar treatment of the seven terraces of purgation or of the nine heavenly spheres. I suppose it's to be expected; the effort to make a film like this must be astronomical and the Inferno was and probably always will be the most popular out of the three (not to mention it's the first part of the book, anyway). Any deficiencies this movie has are left far in the dust when compared to the overall brilliance and beauty of this modern homage to one of the great literary classics.
  • June 20, 2008
    Slightly amusing, of course, it is all done with puppets.

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  • Lloydlicious
    April 24, 2007
    FIRST!

    I'd like to thank Satan for making Hell sick enough for Dante to write a movie about it so a book could be made off of that movie though I never saw this book but so what
    Hell rules!

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