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A suburbanite cancels his vacation trip to help keep watch on his creepy new neighbor. When a grouchy neighbor disappears the watch group descends onRay Peterson (Tom Hanks) would like nothing better than to spend a quiet week’s vacation in his suburban home, drinking beer and watching TV. But, spurred on by his two friends’ spinning of boyish paranoid fantasies about their reclusive neighbors, the Klopeks, the usually down-to-earth Ray begins to suspect his idyllic neighborhood has been invaded by an evil force, to the point where he and his friends become psychotically nosey. You see where this is going, and you see it from a mile off. Only the general surface-thin plot is somewhat offset by director Joe Dante’s fine sense of the absurd, and a host of engagingly played neighbor-types, namely Rick Ducommun as Ray’s best friend who’s always proposing bad ideas, and Bruce Dern as a sometimes wild-eyed ex-vet who’d love some action. Dante and crew seem to have a knack for keeping these

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Anonymous

November 1, 2010 at 4:59 pm

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This is the greatest comedy of all time,second is Clue. It has a whole bunch of great lines and an outstanding score by Jerry Goldsmith (Patton). Even though Tom Hanks is really, really funny, the best character in this is Art, played outstandingly by Rick Duccomon. You have to add this to your comedy collection. The movie itself is about three men (Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, and Rick Duccomon) who get obssesed with what is going on in Tom Hanks’ neighbors house. Art thinks that the neighbors are killing the other people who used to live there. But he can’t be right. Can He? This is a must have for people who love comedy and mysteries. The lesson: Don’t judge a person by his cover……. but don’t be too careful.

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gobirds2

November 1, 2010 at 4:34 pm

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A little bit of life comes to a rather mundane suburban neighborhood thanks to director Joe Dante. Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern and others get obsessed with the strange goings on with their new neighbors (Henry Gibson and his strange looking family) that move in to their average American neighborhood. Gibson’s relatives look like a barrel full of weirdoes to say the least. They were really a product of great casting. Corey Feldman is excellent as a teenage neighbor observer who sits on his porch and invites his friends over to watch the would-be commandos (Dern and Hanks) in action as they attempt to unravel and protect the neighborhood from Gibson’s strange goings-on. Jerry Goldsmith composed a very good score that is in touch with his subject and keeps the pace of the film moving. His score also includes a very catchy end title for this bizarre little film. In fact Jerry Goldsmith’s Dolby Digital 5.1 score is one of the best attractions on this DVD. I found this movie to be very amusing containing some real gut wrenching laughs along the way. Highly recommended viewing.

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Sheila Chilcote-Collins

November 1, 2010 at 4:02 pm

Review by Sheila Chilcote-Collins for The ‘Burbs
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As Art Weingartner says “I’m telling you these people are Satanists. As I sit here, they are Satanists. Look… look, the world is full of these kind of things; black masses, mutilations. Mutilations! The incubus, the succubus – I’m tellin’ you, Walter was a human sacrifice.”Such is the hysterical dialog between Art (Rick Ducommun) and Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) when they discover, along with some other people in their suburban subdivision, their elderly neighbor, Walter Seznick (Gale Gordon) is missing in action.Other neighbor buddy, Vietnam Vet, Mark Rumsfeld (Bruce Dern) decides to help Ray and Art to find out what happened to Walter. They all three are SURE that the weirdo reclusive new neighbors, The Klopek family, comprised of Dr. Werner Klopek (Henry Gibson), Uncle Reuben Klopek (Brother Theodore) and shy Hans Klopek (Courtney Gains)have something to do with the old man’s disappearance.So…complete with night vision goggles, credit cards to slide in the Klopek’s doorlocks to break in and various other spy equipment furnished by Mr. Rumsfeld, they start their little spying games.Men and their wives even plan a little friendly “welcome wagon” visit to the Klopeks (one of the funniest scenes in the movie!)Corey Feldman as young neighbor teen Ricky Butler, Carrie Fisher as Carol Peterson, & Wendy Schaal as Bonnie Rumsfeld ALL turn in great performances.Even Nicky Katt from Boston Public plays Ricky’s young friend Steve Kuntz!What happened to Walter? Did the Klopek’s have anything to do with the disappearance? WATCH THIS VERY ENTERTAINING MOVIE and find out for yourself!Happy Watching!

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Anonymous

November 1, 2010 at 3:40 pm

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Rick Ducummon is fantastic in this movie! Don’t get me wrong, Bruce Dern, Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, Dick Miller, Henry Gibson, and Courtney Gains are all great too, but Duccumon so rarely gets a chance to shine. We’ve seen him as the guy in the manhole(“Shut it down now!”) in DIE HARD, he’s the guy whose pool gets a car crashed into it in THE LAST BOYS SCOUT (plus he starred opposite Brian Bonsall(FAMILY TIES) in Disney’s BLANK CHECK). He just is never given an opportunity like he has here and he’s great! “The thermostat on a home furnace-is that supposed to go to 5000 degrees d’ya think?” and “My wife is home??!” amongst other classic lines are just pouring out of him here. I can’t believe some people don’t like this movie. At the very worst it’s an innefectual, light comedy. At the very best(my end) it’s a Hitchcock inspired, post-modern comic pastiche that also has Corey Feldman in it. This movie is a lot of fun. I’ve watched it a bunch and it only gets better. One of Tom Hanks later frenitic comedic performances. Dvd includes alternate ending which is nice to see.

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Levi Stofer

November 1, 2010 at 3:07 pm

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The ‘Burbs isn’t one of those movies you’d see being drooled over by film critics or even audiences, but it is one of those movies that if you saw it on TV every couple of months, you’d watch it. Joe Dante’s weird sense of humor shines on this movie even more than the Gremlins movies. It also offers a cast of characters that are as much relatable as they are crazy. Everyone has weird neighbors, right?Tom Hanks is in top comedic form in this one offering classic lines like “I’ve never seen anyone drive their garbage to the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick.” Then you have the hilarious neighbor Rick Ducommunn who I feel should have had a better career after this film. Corey Feldman (always a treat) plays the irresponsible teen and Bruce Dern is brilliant as the crazy military reject. All these characters mixed up in a bizzare murder mystery is pure magic. But what makes this movie have replay value is the little things that you don’t necessarily catch while watching for the first time. For example, when Rick Ducommunn comes over to visit Tom Hanks and eats nearly everything in his refrigerator while the audience is engrossed with his tales of terror. Or just the body movement of Hanks when he observes the weirdness of his neighborhood throughout the film. Hilarious.I may be looked upon as weird for giving this movie 5 stars, but it is one I can always rely on for a good laugh and good quotes. “NO!” “About a 9 on the tension scale, Rube.”
“I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal.”
“Red rover red rover let Ray go over.”
“I’ve been blown up! Take me to the hospital, I’m sick.”Watch this movie and you too will quote these lines forever.

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