Eagle vs. Shark
by Taika Waititi
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Actor: David Fane, Jemaine Clement, Joel Tobeck, Loren Horsley, Taika WaititiDirector: Taika Waititi
Brand: Eagle
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MIRAMAX
DVD Reviews of Eagle vs. Shark
DVD Review: Awkward
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the funniest movies, contains the most awkward sex scene. It is hilarious and if you like Jemaine you should enjoy this movie.DVD Review: I don't think this was much of a comedy **POSSIBLE SPOILERS***
Summary: 4 Stars
But I liked it alot. Its more of a sad romance. I feel like Lily just settled for Jarod and I know he settled for her, but maybe that's ok.
It was very hard to like anyone in this film aside from Lily and her brother and the little girl. The sister and her husband were scam artists. The father was a pretend disabled wierdo who treated his living son like crap. And Jarod, OMG, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Jemaine Clement, he is so super hot, but what a dick in this movie. I just wanted to smack him in every scene. A deadbeat father, an a-hole who will invite a girl to stay with his family and then dump her a few days later. AND the end of the movie of course, (LMAO that might be a little funny as his action wasn't expected, but I did figure he would have some sort of disability).
But I did like the movie and the end was sort of sad and sweet, I guess its real life.
DVD Review: A different angle
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm really glad I purchased this movie. I had rented over a year ago and for some reason couldn't get it out of my head so I decided that this was the moment to go out and get it.
It has a very interesting/unique still to it and the music is wonderful. If you like Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords then you'll surely appreciate this movie.
DVD Review: Hilarious and sweet
Summary: 5 Stars
Terrific independent film from New Zealand. I look forward to great things from Director Taika Waikiki--the writer and director of this film.DVD Review: Dismal and grim
Summary: 1 Stars
This film is a major disappointment. Major. I am a huge fan of Flight of the Conchords, which is witty, clever, beautifully photographed, well acted, and wildly funny. This is none of those things. The main characters are not very interesting at best, or, in the case of Jarrod, massively irritating. A selfish jerk, a self-absorbed fool, an inarticulate bore, an utterly un-self aware misogynist, and a lying, grubby phony, he offers not one reason to care about him. Tossing aside everyone and everything, he is a one-man wrecking crew, destroying and punishing all around him. For a man so desperate for his father's approval, you would think he would offer some fathering to his daughter, but no, he never cares about her in any way. Jarrod is a miserable jerk, the kind of person you'd run from in a heartbeat. I was repelled by every aspect of him.
No need to go on at length. I cannot imagine how this got the accolades it did. If you enjoy laughing at the downtrodden and lonely, if you think the incompetent and confused are worthy subjects of your supercilious derision, if sad people make you chuckle, then this film may be for you. If you feel any empathy for the lost and lonely Lily, you will sit open mouthed as she is subject to endless humiliation, only to find herself while wildly drunk. Wow...one sad, disheartening film.
Description of Eagle vs. Shark
Miramax Films presents the wickedly offbeat love story, Eagle vs Shark, a funny, fractured romance between two total misfits woven into an all-consuming quest for revenge and shot through with the strange, sweet hilarity of the human condition. When Lily (Horsley), a lonely, oddball fast-food waitress and hopeless romantic, and Jarrod (Clement), another lonely oddball and video game clerk who has spent the last decade plotting revenge against a bully from high school, connect at a dress as your favorite animal party, it s a match seemingly made in outcast Heaven. But when Lily decides to risk everything for love, her hopes are nearly dashed as, after a brief fling, Jarrod dumps her because he s too busy training for his all-important payback mission. But neither of them can anticipate the grit the steadfastly optimistic Lily will show in her heartbreak. As Jarrod's day of reckoning arrives and everything hits the fan, Jarrod and Lily will find something that goes beyond romantic fantasies and revenge faith in who they are.Since the 1980s, the nerd has triumphed in comedies from Weird Science to Napoleon Dynamite, but what about the female of the species? In Eagle vs. Shark, New Zealand's Taika Waititi presents his offbeat romance from the perspective of the likeably quirky Lily (co-writer Loren Horsley). The Meaty Boy cashier fantasizes about the sensitive yet boorish Jarrod (Jemaine Clement from HBO's Flight of the Conchords). Sporting the worst on-screen hairdo since Javier Bardem's pageboy in No Country for Old Men, the video-game wiz visits Lily's fast-food emporium daily, oblivious to the slouchy brunette with the shy smile. Except for her cartoonist brother, Damon (Joel Tobeck), nobody else notices Lily either. When she crashes Jarrod's costume party--dressed as a shark to his eagle--her fortunes begin to change, but there's a catch: Much like Adam Sandler's tightly-wound salesman in P.T. Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love, Jarrod has a dark side. Not only is he a habitual liar, but he intends to kill his high school nemesis, Eric (David Fane). At first, Lily supports Jarrod's homicidal plan, but their relationship hits a snag when they travel to his hometown for the big face-off (Waititi plays Jarrod's brother in flashbacks). Suffice to say, no murders take place during the course of Eagle vs. Shark. Stop-motion sequences (revolving around irregular apples), the Phoenix Foundation's electro-pop score, deleted scenes, outtakes, and audio commentary all contribute to the weird charm of Waititi's first feature. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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