Chairman of the Board
by Alex Zamm
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Actor: Courtney Thorne-Smith, Larry Miller, Mystro Clark, Raquel Welch, Scott 'Carrot Top' ThompsonDirector: Alex Zamm
Brand: Lions Gate
Writer: Alex Zamm
Producer: Brad L.C. Greenberg
Producer: Edward K. Phillips
Producer: Mark Amin
Producer: Peter M. Lenkov
Writer: Al Septien
Writer: Turi Meyer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-08-11
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
DVD Reviews of Chairman of the Board
DVD Review: Not bad vehicle for new comic
Summary: 3 Stars
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a ton of tasteless, unhilarious quips and gags...if they had been edited out (thus making the picture about 8 minutes shorter, which would have helped) we'd have a better than not bad vehicle. (See review title).
This the slightly predictable story of a crazy young inventor, just crazy enough to actually make it big, who is taken under the wing in absentia you might say by Corporate Head Jack Warden, who saw something in "Edison's" character and talent, in a roadside encounter; he passes away soon after. (You gotta see his flambouyant pre-recorded video shown at the will reading!).
Heavy kudos to the Casting Director who enlisted the great Warden plus Raquel Welch, and a very long list of recognizables from "Seinfeld" - a fan of that show should have a strong impetus to buy this DVD!
Carrot Top's character here of course mirrors his on-stage *clown with the hair but not the make-up* personae who simply drags out far- out "inventions", then explains...or tries to explain them.
Unfortunately, the main invention of Edison the Corporate Head is the least interesting in the movie and it actually spins the plot into a depressing phase where his credibility is seriously questioned (he rush-orders the new product after believing Warden's nephew, Larry Miller, who stands to take over if Edison fails, and who, at a Board meeting, easily convinces him that "tests" are unnecessary.)
No need to give away the plot resolution - it's nothing surprising - but it does evoke alot of the old (and always agreeable) Hollywood "happy ending".
Bonus material includes the funniest stuff on the DVD: WWF wrestlers challenging CT! Look for a fast cameo of "Classy" Freddie Blassie!!
DVD Review: [Three out of four on normal rating scale...] 'The King of the PROP Comics lives!
Summary: 3 Stars
Current Las Vegas Lounge Prop Comic Carrot
Top dominates in this ultra low budget, gag-
laden funny story about an 'out-there' kinda
inventor / surf-dude who runs into aging
and rich surf enthusiast (played by Jack
Warden), who dies and makes our red-headed
hero, "Chariman of the 'Board' ", literally.
Don't miss the scene in the funeral home
where Carrot Top spills the urn and dumps
the ashtray into it to help fill it back up!
Warden and Rachel Welch lead Carrot Top and
a bunch of nobodies through a fun romp. If
you don't think too hard about this one, it's
dam good fun! 'Surf's Up!'
DVD Review: Does imitation Vanillia taste as good?
Summary: 2 Stars
Carrot Top has some inventions (like the TV dinners with real TVs inside) and some jokes (He can't work for Wendy's hamburgers because he looks too much like Wendy) that I found to be quite funny. Being the owner of curly red hair and a surfboard, it is difficult to be objective in my review. When the story uses fresh new ideas, it's funny. But when it simply mimics other people, it could be just a guy with a wig on his head trying too hard for laughs.DVD Review: Chairman of the Bored
Summary: 1 Stars
Carrot Top brings the annoying to new heights in "Chairman of the Board." He stars as Edison, an inventor who loves to surf and finds out that his ideas are being stolen by the evil new CEO. There are numerous unfunny sight gags-including one that involves the evil CEO eating office supplies. Carrot Top,who looks like the carrot/root vegetable male version of cat lady Joycelyn Wildenstein, saves the day with his strange car and realization that his Glow Goo was being used against him.
Raquel Welch makes a thankless cameo,one wonders if she was nostalgic about "Myra Breckinridge" in which she starred as Rex Reed's feminine alter ego. Courtney Thorne-Smith stars as Carrot Top's hapless girlfriend,and there's a disgusting love scene at the end that gives heterosexuality a bad name.
"Chairman of the Board" is engrossing in a bad way. It's so bad you can't tear your eyes away. Since it is full of tired jokes,"Chairman of the Bored" is more fitting.
DVD Review: Out of the park, clearly
Summary: 5 Stars
I'd like to doff my hat to Carrot Top for single-handedly drawing attention to, and gaining some long-deserved respect for the red-headed people of the Earth. I'm not a redhead myself, but I still think it's pretty amazing. Those of us with black hair and dark eyes could really use someone like Carrot Top to champion our own cause and maybe squeeze a drop of d@*n respect from The Man too.
Chairman of the Board. CHAIRMAN of the Board. Not *lap monkey* of the Board. Not *yes sah, what I can get y'all sah* of the Board. Chairman. CHAIRMAN of the Board. Hear that Mr. Bush? Carrot Top's a knockin'.
And so was my funny bone when I stumbled across this treasure in VHS format on the clearance rack of Wal-Mart late one Wednesday night. It was a gamble, but I was very drunk, or something closely resembling that, and my friend, Eponu, convinced me it was a good idea. He was right. Righter than he'd been, even, about the chili-cheese Fritos the night before.
I'd always thought Carrot's TV commercials pretty much sucked. They always made me wonder "where's that guy's eyebrows, anyhow?" And seeing him get more muscular just made the mascara look even creepier. But this film is from before his almost-cross dresser period. And it's pretty obvious why the TV marketers scoured the depths of whatever bathroom he was probably living in at the time to get his name in ink on a shiny new contract. Mr. Top here shows that he is to cinema what Jerry Seinfeld was to television. It is a travesty that this movie is doomed to lie forever buried in obscurity, the world not having been ready to receive it when it was actually released.
So you'd better snap up a copy soon, because I seriously doubt there will be any future re-releases before they get around to doing some kind of comprehensive retrospective of films that changed the world. And even then, you'd have to sift through all that Bogart/Orwell/Hitchcock rubbish to get to the good stuff. Far and away one of the best titles you can have in your collection for those times when it's 3 in the morning and you and your friends have gone through 2 bags of chips and are working on that old box of cornflakes that never gets eaten.
I only regret I never had the chance to catch it in its true crowning glory on the big screen.
Description of Chairman of the Board
Edison is flat-out-off-his-rocker and even that doesnt stop him from reaching the pinnacle of prosperity once he puts the full powers of his imagination toward changing the world. Edison starts as a nobody just another flaming red-haired surf bum trying to make his rent. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 10/28/2003 Starring: Carrot Top Courtney Thorne-smith Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Alex ZammEdison (Carrot Top) is a surfing would-be inventor who makes goofy Rube Goldberg-style gadgets. Here's a taste: a drinking glass with a forehead heater to prevent brain freeze. They're all pretty much like that. The chairman of a large corporation (Jack Warden), who had shown interest in Edison's "ideas," dies and leaves Edison in charge of his company. Another would-be benefactor (Larry Miller), beaten out of his inheritance by Edison, makes it his evil mission to wrest control of the company from the ne'er-do-well with the shock of silly hair. A thin formula on which to hang some amazingly unfunny gags, all done in a broad cartoon-style, but with no flair. Puts the stupid in Stupid Comedy, then takes out all the comedy. Well, okay, not all. The videotaped will takes the form of a game show, presenting things to be inherited as prizes in the manner of Wheel of Fortune, complete with its own Vanna White. The rest is one lame attempt at a joke after another, with some time taken for Carrot Top to do pale imitations of Jim Carrey, possibly unintentionally. Highlights include Cindy Margolis. --Jim Gay
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