FilmJabber Movie Reviews

Login | Join | Help

Search

Idle Hands (1999)

Buy DVD at Amazon Click here to buy posters!
Release Date: April 30, 1999
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Running Time: 92 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for horror violence and gore, pervasive teen drug use, language and sexuality.
Director: Rodman Flender
Writer: Ron Milbauer, Terri Hughes
Cast: Timothy Stack, Kelly Monaco, Steve Van Wormer, Connie Ray, Fred Willard, Nicholas Sadler, Sean Whalen, Katie Wright, Jack Noseworthy, Vivica A. Fox, Christopher Hart, Jessica Alba, Elden Ratliff, Seth Green, Devon Sawa

Evil spirits will find work for idle hands to do - so what happens when they go on the prowl for a partner in crime and end up with an utterly clueless 17-year-old slacker? The result is a lot more moronics than demonics in the raunchy, irreverent and totally outrageous comedy IDLE HANDS.

Anton (Devon Sawa) wakes up Halloween morning to discover-after doing a little channel surfing and perusing the contents of the fridge, oblivious Read more

Movie Review

Grade: D- Idle Hands was supposed to be a horror movie spoof; instead, it turned out to be gross-out horror movie lacking any substance, including horror or comedy, with a hand-off approach to entertainment. Read the full movie review

User Comments & Reviews

It's what it is., by Shawn Johnson

February 22, 2004

Idle Hands was supposed to be moronic in many ways. His friends harboring him no ill will after they die fits their characters from when they were still alive. They just didn't care about anything, including themselves. I agree it was just stupid on many levels. But it didn't try not to be. The movie was meant to be that way, and they succeeded. I didn't pop this in to see a powerfully character driven story, nor an expansive and memorable plot. This movie was just made for fun, and it was that. Fun.

Category: General | Reply