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Summary: I'm a huge MAD fan, but this book is disappointing!
Review: I consider myself one of the biggest MAD fans in the world, but this book is a bit lame to the high standards of MAD. Maybe I just can't relate to all the movies because I'm not a big fan of the movie spoofs. Tha reason the book got two stars was merely because of the comics about movies in general, and a few good jokes by the likes of Dick DeBartolo and other great MAD writers.
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Summary: Cool magazine, cool book!
Review: I love Mad magazine and I love all movies, so this book was the BEST thing that combines the two!
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Summary: MAD does forty years of Warner Bros. movie spoofs
Review: I was wondering why "Mad About the Movies" would be restricted to just films made by Warner Bros., but then it is explained that this was a "special edition" to commemorate the 7th anniversary of "Mad" magazine's parent company. At least they put together an all-new illustrated history of Warner Bros. along with a pair of introductions from Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, which was nice of the film critics to do since "Gene Sizzle" and "Roger E. Bear" screen the "MAD" version of "Marred Attack!" Included are over three-dozen movie parodies skewering movies from "Casabonkers" to "Corntact." The arrangement is chronological, and there is a big gap historically between "Casabonkers" and "Who in Heck is Virgnia Woolfe?" mainly because "MAD" was not around doing movie parodies in the Forties and Fifties. This is why the new history of Warner Bros. movies fills in the gaps with quicky looks at "The Maltese Flanken," "A Streetcar Named Jambalaya," "Duh Liverance," and "Driving Miss Ditzy." As with all "MAD" movie parodies if you have not seen the movie you are not going to bet the jokes. I had only missed one of the original films ("Up the Academy"), so I did pretty good. My favorites are "Blue-Eyed Kook," "The Ecchorcist," and "Superduperman." The more recent film spoofs just do not have the same sort of bite. Besides, unless they are drawn by Mort Drucker, who does the great cover for this book, they do not seem like real "MAD" parodies. Also included through out the book are comedic short-subjects on things like "A 'MAD' Guide to 'TV Late Show' Cliche Movie Props," several examples of "Scenes We'd Like to See," and a "'MAD' Look at Movie Making" from Sergio Aragones. However, I want to make special mention of one of my all-time favorite "MAD" bits, "Movie Heroes are Finks, or 'Hey There, Audience, You've Been Boing The Wrong Guy!" This classic piece by writer Harry Purvis and Artist Mort Drucker does a wonderful job of noting (with footnotes no less) how the so-called villain is usually hospitable, generous, affectionate, and witty in their comments while the so-called hero's remarks are insulting, crude, ungrateful, and humorless. I fondly remember this two-page spread as one of my earliest introductions to the fact that irony is the master trope of the universe.
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Summary: MAD does forty years of Warner Bros. movie spoofs
Review: I was wondering why "Mad About the Movies" would be restricted to just films made by Warner Bros., but then it is explained that this was a "special edition" to commemorate the 7th anniversary of "Mad" magazine's parent company. At least they put together an all-new illustrated history of Warner Bros. along with a pair of introductions from Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, which was nice of the film critics to do since "Gene Sizzle" and "Roger E. Bear" screen the "MAD" version of "Marred Attack!" Included are over three-dozen movie parodies skewering movies from "Casabonkers" to "Corntact." The arrangement is chronological, and there is a big gap historically between "Casabonkers" and "Who in Heck is Virgnia Woolfe?" mainly because "MAD" was not around doing movie parodies in the Forties and Fifties. This is why the new history of Warner Bros. movies fills in the gaps with quicky looks at "The Maltese Flanken," "A Streetcar Named Jambalaya," "Duh Liverance," and "Driving Miss Ditzy." As with all "MAD" movie parodies if you have not seen the movie you are not going to bet the jokes. I had only missed one of the original films ("Up the Academy"), so I did pretty good. My favorites are "Blue-Eyed Kook," "The Ecchorcist," and "Superduperman." The more recent film spoofs just do not have the same sort of bite. Besides, unless they are drawn by Mort Drucker, who does the great cover for this book, they do not seem like real "MAD" parodies. Also included through out the book are comedic short-subjects on things like "A 'MAD' Guide to 'TV Late Show' Cliche Movie Props," several examples of "Scenes We'd Like to See," and a "'MAD' Look at Movie Making" from Sergio Aragones. However, I want to make special mention of one of my all-time favorite "MAD" bits, "Movie Heroes are Finks, or 'Hey There, Audience, You've Been Boing The Wrong Guy!" This classic piece by writer Harry Purvis and Artist Mort Drucker does a wonderful job of noting (with footnotes no less) how the so-called villain is usually hospitable, generous, affectionate, and witty in their comments while the so-called hero's remarks are insulting, crude, ungrateful, and humorless. I fondly remember this two-page spread as one of my earliest introductions to the fact that irony is the master trope of the universe.
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Summary: Will Disappoint Mad and movie fans--
Review: If you think you'll buy this book hoping to get Mad's parodies of the best movies of all time, you will be severely disappointed. Instead what you will get is a collection of Mad's parodies of Warner Brother movies from the past three decades. What this means-- 1. Don't expect to see, say, "Taxi Driver" or "The Graduate" or any other great film that wasn't produced by Warner Brothers. 2. The book has a few parodies of Warner Brothers' best ("The Exorcist," "Jaws," "A Clockwork Orange", but the rest of it is filled with WB's not-so-bests ("The Goonies," "Altered States"). Why this happened makes sense, if you think about it. Obviously, the editors only had a handful of classic Warner Brothers films to deal with and found that once they used them, they had to pad out the book with Warner Brother's less stellar fare. (Oh, yeah, "ERASER"-- that was fun to see parodied again!) Also frustrating for me was how, as the book progressed chronologically, the parodies were handled more and more by Angelo Torres and Paul Coker, Jr and less by Mort Drucker. If you also hoped to buy this book expecting the definitive collection of the master's greatest work, you will be crushed-- he fills only about half the book. All in all, not the best out of Mad's anthologies.
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Summary: Never a DULL moment
Review: In the spirit of MADD, you KNOW the editors will never let you down.
The Laughs are enless, the satire is diehard and the art is truly amazing
FOR MADD FANS ONLY>>>>
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Summary: Great!
Review: It's a funny and enjoyable book
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Summary: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World....
Review: Like many readers of MAD Magazine, I grew up laughing at the publication's irreverent look at our nation, and the times in which we live. One of my favorite features in the magazine are their often hilarious movie parodies. Since I watch movies all the time, anytime the folks at Mad took a whack at any film while I was growing up, I would read that stuff first.. Mad About The Movies collects some of the best spoofs that I can recall from my youth, as well as some that I missed as an adult. There's nothing like a MAD movie parody. Somehow, in a very limited amount of space, The Usual Gang ..., can take a two hour film-or more and highlight the absurd. Whether it's the script, actors, or setting, nothing is off limits. The book also has "Scenes We'd Like To See", script cliche`s, contributions from Sergio Aragonies, and other lunacy as well. Published in '98 to commemorate Warner Brothers' 75th Anniversary, it covers films in their library from Casablanca, through Contact. I would like to see more books like this, poking fun at the other studios as well. It's been a number of years now, the time is right for a second edition. The book's intoduction by film critics, the late Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert is a nice touch. The recommended book is for anyone who has ever read MAD, or seen a movie. The book has 256 pages.
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Summary: vverry vverry funny huh huh uhh MY name is stephen B.
Review: MADMAD MY name is stephen boland and this Tribrute to the Movies woz Quiet stunning MAD MMMAD.
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Summary: Others are better
Review: Some of the other books are better.
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